Experts in #cybersecurity know that real security comes from end-to-end traceability of auditable artifacts. By extension, auditability requires transparency and independent verification of the systems being audited. With the rise of #agentic_AI, many non-experts are touting the "safety" they feel with AI agents that have been given wh...

One of the most interesting new #AI models this year is DiffusionGemma, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. While its architecture isn't well-supported by all engines yet, variants currently work on Ollama and LM Studio. While diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it lacks some of the features of other Gemma 4 models, it is blazing...

Theia Institute's Academic Roundtable with South Africa and Namibia It was an honor to collaborate with so many forward-thinking academics from #South_Africa and #Namibia during this #AI #roundtable. I was excited to learn about the many unique opportunities for academic research and commercial development that are being actively explo...

AI Models Remain Black-Box Processes Large language models are currently promoted to the public as forms of artificial intelligence. No one doubts that #AI and #LLM tools can be *useful*, but treating these technologies as "thinking machines" is a marketing ploy. Even the scientists and engineers who build today's frontier models will ...