Lights On by Farida
Farida KhalafA systems-driven newsletter from a data engineer and cybersecurity thinker, decoding complex data, technology, and business trends into actionable insight.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 201 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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The Foundation Nobody Owns
the Open weight wrap
TL;DR: The lab with the best model changes every few months. The lab that becomes the foundation shapes the entire field for years.
The biggest story of this generation of AI was never that the models became...
Kimi Open-Weight AI: The What and the How
TL;DR: Kimi is an open-weight AI model from Moonshot AI that brings frontier-level autonomous AI agents within reach of smaller teams. Instead of simply generating text, it can plan, use tools, coordinate hundreds of sub-agents, and compl...
GLM-5.2 Open-Weight AI: The What and the How
Z.ai - GLM5.2
TL;DR: GLM-5.2 shows that AI cost and AI capability are no longer the same variable. Advances in architecture separate inference cost from model quality, making frontier-level AI significantly cheaper to run without reducin...
DeepSeek Open-Weight AI: The What and the How
DeepSeek Model
TL;DR: The cost of AI intelligence is collapsing, and the AI race is now about inference cost, pricing, and efficiency.
The New Frontier Is the Invoice
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How DeepSeek V4 Proved That the AI Race Is Now...
When Patience Is the Trap
The bamboo story is true. That’s exactly why it’s dangerous, it’s true often enough to be believed always. A founder’s test for telling the gap that wants more work from the gap that’s trying to tell you something.
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I write about systems, incentives, and entropy in modern organizations. Most failures are not operational, they are structural misreadings of reality.
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