AI Engineering Digest https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/podcast/ Opinionated commentary on what changed for people who ship with models — local runtimes, Apple Silicon, frontier APIs, and open tools. Hosted by Fraser. From As The Geek Learns. en-us Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000 As The Geek Learns Opinionated commentary on what changed for people who ship with models — local runtimes, Apple Silicon, frontier APIs, and open tools. Hosted by Fraser. From As The Geek Learns. no As The Geek Learns https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/assets/podcast-cover.png AI Engineering Digest https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/podcast/ Issue 25 — Ollama 0.40 RC makes MLX the default on Apple Silicon Fraser on Ollama v0.40.0-rc0 making MLX the default on Apple Silicon (RC sandbox only; keep production pinned on 0.34.4), mlx-vlm 0.7.3, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar GA, the Australian PM's Medicare portal disclosure involving an OpenAI agent, Anthropic billing pre-output refusals, Databricks Unity Gateway CLI, and TRL 1.14.0. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-25.html Fraser on Ollama v0.40.0-rc0 making MLX the default on Apple Silicon (RC sandbox only; keep production pinned on 0.34.4), mlx-vlm 0.7.3, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar GA, the Australian PM's Medicare portal disclosure involving an OpenAI agent, Anthropic billing pre-output refusals, Databricks Unity Gateway CLI, and TRL 1.14.0. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-25.html Fraser no 5:18 aed-issue-25 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000 https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/podcast/#issue-25 Fraser on Ollama v0.40.0-rc0 making MLX the default on Apple Silicon (RC sandbox only; keep production pinned on 0.34.4), mlx-vlm 0.7.3, Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar GA, the Australian PM's Medicare portal disclosure involving an OpenAI agent, Anthropic billing pre-output refusals, Databricks Unity Gateway CLI, and TRL 1.14.0. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-25.html

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]]> Issue 24 — llama.cpp v0.5.0 Fraser on llama.cpp v0.5.0 GA (Metal MoE / SSM_CONV fusion, multi-bind), Ollama 0.34.4, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, CloudWatch Omni, Bedrock connectors, ExecuTorch 1.5.1, and the vLLM Sep 23 GHSA quartet. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-24.html Fraser on llama.cpp v0.5.0 GA (Metal MoE / SSM_CONV fusion, multi-bind), Ollama 0.34.4, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, CloudWatch Omni, Bedrock connectors, ExecuTorch 1.5.1, and the vLLM Sep 23 GHSA quartet. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-24.html Fraser no 3:40 aed-issue-24 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000 https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/podcast/#issue-24 Fraser on llama.cpp v0.5.0 GA (Metal MoE / SSM_CONV fusion, multi-bind), Ollama 0.34.4, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, CloudWatch Omni, Bedrock connectors, ExecuTorch 1.5.1, and the vLLM Sep 23 GHSA quartet. Written issue: https://ai-eng-digest.astgl.ai/archive/2026-09-24.html

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