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Frontier Development research deskSection 10 · Page 5 of 9Last updated 26 October 2026
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  1. Automated Decision-Making Technology & Chatbot Safety Rulemaking — Colorado Attorney General →coag.gov
  2. A Small Model Asks Better: Fine-Tuning Query Clarification for Retrieval-Augmented Generation — He, Popa and Danilevsky, 19 October 2026 →arxiv.org
  3. California Finalizes Regulations to Strengthen Consumers’ Privacy — CPPA, 23 September 2025 →cppa.ca.gov
  4. Modal crosses $1B in Annualized Run Rate and raises $750M Series D — 14 October 2026 →modal.com
  5. A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products — Hamel Husain →hamel.dev
  6. Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Latent Space, 22 October 2026 →latent.space
  7. SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology — Colorado General Assembly →leg.colorado.gov
  8. Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps — Hugging Face, 3 September 2026 →huggingface.co
  9. The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely and Ali Taha, Latent Space, 3 August 2026 →latent.space
  10. Pricing — Together AI, snapshot checked 26 October 2026 →www.together.ai
  11. Demystifying evals for AI agents — Anthropic, 9 January 2026 →www.anthropic.com