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- #019
A model price war, and 50 tons of books fed to a scanner
GPT-6 Sol and Luna land at half the price of their 5.6 equivalents. Anthropic replies.
- #018
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-Live-1, and Meta's sandboxed agent
OpenAI ships two models in a week; NYC bans AI through 8th grade for a year.
- #017
Maintainers close the PR door; ChatGPT ads hit $1B
Vercel AI SDK and tldraw swap drive-by PRs for agent software factories
- #016
Israel's fake thinktank tried to game AI; OpenRouter joins Stripe
Poisoned corpora, a router acquisition, and a 48-minute teardown of Claude's watermark
- #015
Stripe's reported $7B bet on model routing
Asana says Codex compressed five years of migration work into two weeks for $12K.
- #014
Docker Sandboxes, Cognition at $40B, and Claude watermarks
Cognition reportedly raising at $40B, months after the $26B round. Same product.
- #013
Agents that pay, test, and triage their own issues
Astro's open issue count fell 85% after subagents took over verification duty.
- #012
GPT-5.6 Luna drops 80%, and OpenAI wants your open weights regulated
OpenAI cuts Luna token costs 80% — then lobbies to fence off open-weight models
- #011
OpenAI enters the agent orchestration layer
Presence vs LangChain, three trillion-scale MoE flagships benchmarked, and cheap reverse-engineering
- #010
Apple v. OpenAI, and a moving screenless speaker
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft — plus OpenAI's first gadget leaks.
- #009
Junior devs squeezed, OpenAI goes full-duplex, x402 goes live
Entry-level coding jobs contract, OpenAI's voice models speak and listen at once, Cloudflare bets on x402.
- #008
Alibaba's DOM-only web agent, and design loops beat prompts
Page Agent skips vision models, Ornith-1.0 self-improves, ECB frets over an AI bubble.
- #007
GLM-5.2 goes huge, Baidu flattens the KV cache, Claude moves into Slack
753B open weights with 1M context, plus an OCR model that refuses to balloon memory.
- #006
Claude Code grows up, Cloudflare ships agent skills
A 25-feature Claude Code tour, Coinbase opens trading to agents, and the real story behind the Fable ban.
- #005
Bezos's $12B physical-AGI bet, Apache Burr, and Claude Fable 5's fine print
85% of enterprises want agentic AI in 3 years. 76% admit they can't ship it.
- #004
Microsoft ships Scout, and wants you addicted to it
Scout lands in M365, Robinhood opens trading to agents, Steam's AI titles up 681%
- #003
Microsoft: AI costs more than humans; Uber blinks on spend
Anthropic ships Opus 4.8 with 1K-subagent workflows. Google Pay preps an agent commerce protocol.
- #002
ChatGPT wants your bank login, AI runs radio, junior devs run scared
OpenAI connects to your checking account; Andon Labs hands radio stations to LLMs
- #001
Cloudflare lets agents sign themselves up and ship
Cline open-sources its agent runtime; OpenAI's DeployCo elbows into the SI lane