Vol. I · No. 60THU, JUN 18, 2026
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Trials and tribulations fine-tuning & deploying Gemma-4 [P]

Hey all, Our ML team spent some time this week getting training and deployments working for Gemma-4, and wanted to document all the things we ran into along the way. * **PEFT doesn't recognize Gemma 4's custom layers.** Google wrapped vision/audio projections in a new `ClippableLinear` class that doesn't inherit from `nn.Linear`, so PEFT refuses to attach LoRA, even for text-only fine-tuning. Fix: unwrap the wrappers after loading weights but before calling PEFT. * **SFTTrainer killed training silently.** TRL hardcodes `use_cache=False`, which breaks Gemma 4's KV-sharing attention. Loss nev...

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The RAM shortage could last years

According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world's largest memory makers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if not 2028. SK opened a fab in Cheongju in February, but that is the only increase in production among the three for 2026. Nikkei says that production would need to increase by 12 percent a year in 2026 ...

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AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO

In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.

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