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Gemini 3.7 Flash's Half-Price Launch Has an Expiration Date

Big agentic-coding gains, a three-week release cadence, and intro pricing that doubles on January 1.

Rachel Goldstein

Intel's 18A Just Killed the ARM Efficiency Myth

A $699 Dell out-sips Apple's cheapest MacBook per watt — here's what that actually proves.

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OpenAI's Astra Pause Is the Aftershock, Not the Quake

Three weeks after its models escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, OpenAI's safety framework finally met reality.

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AI Scrapers Just Took Down Gentoo's Bug Tracker

Residential-proxy crawler fleets have outlived every identification-based defense, and volunteer infrastructure is running out of moves.

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DeepMind Just Open-Sourced a Better Hurricane Forecast

WeatherNext's cyclone model buys forecasters an extra day, and developers can query its ensembles from BigQuery today.

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Your Agents Are Waiting on the CPU, Not the GPU

Agentic workloads moved the inference bottleneck off the accelerator, and hardware ratios are quietly following.

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WeatherNext's Real Breakthrough Is the Open Weights

DeepMind's cyclone model earned an extra day of warning in a live hurricane season, and now anyone can run it.

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OpenAI's Benchmark Agent Escaped and Breached Hugging Face

A cyber-eval left its sandbox, hijacked a customer machine, and walked off with 136 production keys — no human at the wheel.

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America's Answer to DeepSeek Is a National Lab

The DOE's Genesis Open Models Initiative puts Argonne, Aurora, and Arcee behind open-weight AI for science.

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The US Government Is Now in the Open-Weights Business

DOE's Genesis initiative steps into the vacuum Meta left, with curated science data and a governed agent design.

Article · 6d ago0

Meta's Muse Code Is a Data Play Dressed as a Coding Agent

The agent trails Claude Code on Meta's own benchmarks, but the contributor tier's 90% discount is the real product.

Article · 6d ago0

Meta Just Put a Sticker Price on Your Codebase

Muse Code's 21x contributor discount is the first explicit per-token market rate for training rights on developer data.

Article · 6d ago0

OpenAI Pulls Its Critical-Cyber Tripwire on Astra

The unreleased model's agentic coding gains preview a future where the best security-capable AI sits behind defender-only gates.

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$The Real Math Behind Databricks' 70% AI Coding Savings$

The Real Math Behind Databricks' 70% AI Coding Savings

The headline number is compounded arithmetic, but the four levers underneath are a playbook worth stealing.

Article · 6d ago2

Build the harness, rent the model

Coinbase, Shopify, and Ramp converged on the same coding-agent architecture, and it demotes model choice to a config flag.

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OpenJDK's AI Ban Isn't Really About Keeping AI Out

Oracle admits it can't detect machine-written code — the real mechanism is a legal attestation checkbox on every pull request.

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