THE DAILY BRIEF

Training a custom model costs about $30. Serving the same weights costs $326 to $28,908 a month depending on the platform. The fine-tuning-versus-RAG decision is a serving-contract decision, and the break-even is 683,000 queries.

Silver Lake already owns both Cegid and Silae, so their €10bn merger fires no change-of-control clause. What moves instead is Cegid's DGFiP e-invoicing registration — number 0007, three years, renewable in 2027, the same year the deal closes and French SMEs must start issuing.

Salesforce AI Research and UIUC replaced the scoring pass in KV cache eviction with a uniform random draw, kept the prompt pinned, and matched the strongest published evictor across four models and six reasoning tasks — at 32-43% higher vLLM throughput. Random-plus-prompt-protection is now the baseline any 'intelligent cache compression' claim has to beat.

The NSA, CISA and FBI advisory AA26-251A tells AI providers to flag accounts by 24/7 usage, instant maximum throughput and cache-optimised traffic — an exact description of a production agent fleet. Its recommended mitigation is an undisclosed model downgrade, engineered to defeat quality measurement.

ERPBench ran 100 identical ERP problems through six model families twice — solo against fixed opponents, then all six competing in one market. DeepSeek won the first, Gemini the second, and the two agreed on 21 of 100 tasks.

SWE-Gate scored review-constraint compliance separately from functional tests across 303 repository-level repair tasks. Of 644 agent patches that passed the tests, 221 violated constraints taken from the original pull request reviews.