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  number: 029
  headline: "Smaller Agents, Faster Inference, Stronger Receipts"
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #029 -- June 28, 2026"
  date: 2026-06-28
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/06/evy-show-029.mp3?v=20260628112007
  summary: "Today’s brief tracks a practical shift toward right-sized agent models, faster serving, and verification outside the model."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 16
  sources[16]{title,publisher,url}:
    Liquid AI: LFM2.5-230M: Built to Run Anywhere,Liquid AI,https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-230m
    LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M Model Card,Hugging Face,https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M
    "Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-230M with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX Support",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/27/liquid-ai-ships-lfm2-5-230m-with-llama-cpp-mlx-vllm-sglang-and-onnx-support-for-on-device-inference/
    DeepSpec: Training and Evaluating Speculative Decoding Algorithms,GitHub / deepseek-ai,https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec
    "DeepSeek Releases DSpark, a Speculative Decoding Framework for DeepSeek-V4",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/27/deepseek-releases-dspark-a-speculative-decoding-framework-that-accelerates-deepseek-v4-per-user-generation-60-85-over-mtp-1/
    New Models Today: AI and LLM Releases Last 24 Hours,Price Per Token,https://pricepertoken.com/news/model-releases
    Trending AI Repositories on GitHub,OSSInsight,https://ossinsight.io/trending/ai
    Liquid4All Cookbook: Examples and Tutorials for Liquid Foundation Models,GitHub / Liquid4All,https://github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook
    MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Real-World MCP Tasks,GitHub / Accenture,https://github.com/Accenture/mcp-bench
    DukaanBench: Can AI Run an Indian Grocery Store for 30 Days?,Hugging Face Community,https://huggingface.co/blog/77ethers/dukaanbench
    VLX-Seek: Improving VLM Fine-Grained Perception via Region Reference,Hugging Face Community,https://huggingface.co/blog/omlab/vlx-seek
    VIGIL: Runtime Enforcement of Behavioral Specifications in AI Agent Skills,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26524
    NOVA: A Verification-Aware Agent Harness for Architecture Evolution,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27243
    How Much Static Structure Do Code Agents Need? A Study of Deterministic Anchoring,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26979
    OpenRouter Blog: June 2026 Model Routing and Open-Weight Posts,OpenRouter,https://openrouter.ai/blog/
    Hacker News Discussion: Building Effective AI Agents,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301809

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  > Today’s brief tracks a practical shift toward right-sized agent models, faster serving, and verification outside the model.

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