Rami's Readings #126 - 👋 I’m Speaking at Seattle AI Week

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #126 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers

Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami’s Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Life in Conversation with Salmi, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.

🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 Seattle AI Week

On October 29, I’ll be participating in the “Montréal × Seattle: AI Community Connect” panel, a discussion exploring how two of North America’s most vibrant AI ecosystems can collaborate, build bridges, and accelerate innovation together.

It’s a topic close to my heart: connecting Montréal’s startup excellence with West Coast tech to unlock new opportunities in AI.

📅 When: October 29, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. 📍 Where: 920 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 🔗 Register here. Limited spots available!

Joining me on the panel: ▪ Carl Chouinard – CEO, Vooban Labs ▪ Josh Jensen – Co-Founder & CEO, Inspectify ▪ Rheia Khalaf – Director of Partnerships, Mila – Quebec AI Institute

If you’re a founder, researcher, or ecosystem builder interested in the intersection of AI, cross-border collaboration, and startup growth, come join the conversation!

🤖 AI Reads

Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

Notes: Fantastic solo paper out of 🇨🇦 proposing the Tiny Recursive Model, which is shows significant performance gains on ARC-AGI-1, better than DeepSeek R1, o3-mini, etc. despite having less than 0.01% of the parameters. Four different subscribers sent it my way.

LFM2-8B-A1B: An Efficient On-Device Mixture-of-Experts

Notes: MIT’s Liquid AI just released a MoE model that you can run on the edge. It’s available on HuggingFace.

Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models

Notes: YES! Read this paper from Stanford, SambaNova Systems, and Berkeley.

Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-Constant Number of Poison Samples

Notes: All you need is 250 poisoned documents. From Anthropic, UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute.

tiny-classifier.cpp — Our First Tiny Classifier

Notes: I love these short articles, even more so because it’s written with C++.

💼 Business Reads

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

Notes: Mediocrity is the enemy.

Nassim Taleb Warns to Hedge Against Crash as Debt Crisis Looms

Notes: Stock market warnings are becoming more frequent.

Why Microsoft Has Lower Borrowing Costs Than the U.S.

Notes: Wild that a few top-grade corporate bonds have lower yields than US Treasuries.

G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials’ Data

Notes: Yikes. Subscribers, please back up your data to more than one location.