- Automated Decision-Making Technology & Chatbot Safety Rulemaking — Colorado Attorney General — Official rulemaking status; checked 26 October 2026.
- A Small Model Asks Better: Fine-Tuning Query Clarification for Retrieval-Augmented Generation — He, Popa and Danilevsky, 19 October 2026 — Primary research; preprint abstract reviewed; checked 26 October 2026.
- California Finalizes Regulations to Strengthen Consumers’ Privacy — CPPA, 23 September 2025 — Official regulator announcement; checked 26 October 2026.
- Modal crosses $1B in Annualized Run Rate and raises $750M Series D — 14 October 2026 — Company financing announcement; checked 26 October 2026.
- A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products — Hamel Husain — Practitioner account; checked 26 October 2026.
- Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Latent Space, 22 October 2026 — Podcast publisher episode page; checked 26 October 2026.
- SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology — Colorado General Assembly — Enacted-law official summary; checked 26 October 2026.
- Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps — Hugging Face, 3 September 2026 — Primary technical tutorial; checked 26 October 2026.
- The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely and Ali Taha, Latent Space, 3 August 2026 — Podcast publisher episode page; checked 26 October 2026.
- Pricing — Together AI, snapshot checked 26 October 2026 — Supplier list prices; checked 26 October 2026.
- Demystifying evals for AI agents — Anthropic, 9 January 2026 — Primary engineering account; checked 26 October 2026.
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