Forte Spotlight: Self-Adapting Language Models, AI Agent Security and More

As Forte Group's Chief Technology Officer, I am thrilled to share the latest advancements, innovations, and insights driving our commitment to technological excellence, empowering you to stay at the forefront of industry trends and developments.

-- Lucas Hendrich, CTO, Forte Group

CTO Spotlight

Traditional LLM deployment cycles (i.e., pretraining, fine-tuning, evaluation, retraining) introduce latency, cost, and data governance challenges that are increasingly unsustainable.

A new paper from researchers at MIT, Self-Adapting Language Models (Zweiger et al., 2025), addresses this problem directly. It proposes a mechanism for large language models to update themselves based on their own outputs and outcomes, without human supervision or external retraining. 

This represents a meaningful shift in how we think about lifecycle management for LLMs.

The significance of this paper lies not just in the results, but in the direction it establishes. As organizations seek to deploy intelligent systems at scale, the ability to autonomously, continuously, and securely update language models in production may define the next generation of enterprise AI platforms.

Read more in my blog post, "Self-Adapting Language Models: A Strategic Milestone In LLM Autonomy."

Technology Spotlight

As enterprises accelerate deployment of autonomous AI agents (i.e., systems that perceive, reason, and act) the scope of risk shifts meaningfully. 

These agents are not simply tools; they are decision-makers integrated with real systems. Google's recent white paper, "An Introduction to Google’s Approach to AI Agent Security" (May 2025), provides one of the most comprehensive frameworks to date for securing such systems in enterprise environments.

The white paper frames hallucination not as a side effect of model instability, but as a legitimate security concern, especially in systems that take autonomous action. For CTOs and CISOs, this reclassification demands new governance patterns: visibility, containment, and auditability at every stage of the agent lifecycle.

Read more in my blog post, "AI Agent Security for CTOs and CISOs: Key Principles."

Industry Spotlight

At Forte Group, we’re proud to be certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the gold standard for women-owned businesses in the U.S. 

That means we’re at least 51% women-owned, led, and operated, with the systems, leadership, and strategy to back it up.

We have a Forte Group Women's Club that holds regular online meetings that the entire company is invited to attend. Our women are leaders, engineers, recruiters, moms and mentors. In the latest meeting they talked about finding work-life balance, about stepping into clarity, structure, and the kind of personal discipline that fuels long-term success.

Read more about the meeting on the Forte blog.

Thank You

For those of you in the U.S., have a great 4th of July. Hope you're able to spend time with friends and loved ones during the holiday. 

– Lucas Hendrich, CTO, Forte Group