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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

AWS's Kiro Crew Opens the Orchestrator, Meters the Engine

The Apache-2.0 agent workspace is genuinely production-serious — and a well-built funnel into Kiro credits.

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The Punk Rock Case Against AI-Generated Code

Hobbyist coding scenes are banning LLM output, and their reasons are more material than purism.

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That 100x-Cheaper Retrieval Claim Is Half Right

Neon and Castform's benchmark-free demo still marks a real shift in who needs frontier models for RAG.

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The Erdős Problems Fell to a Pipeline, Not a Genius

Math's AI moment shows capability lands wherever verification is cheap, public, and machine-checkable.

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Rust's LLM Policy Bans Creation, Not Assistance

The new rust-lang/rust rules protect reviewer trust rather than copyright, and they read like a template other projects will fork.

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No Error Signal, No Discovery

An AlphaProof co-author's ICML position paper pins down the one reasoning mode LLMs haven't mechanized.

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How a 20B Model Hits 120 tok/s on an iPhone

DeepGrove's Maple-Preview stacks native ternary training on MoE sparsity, and the arithmetic largely holds up.

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Rust's New LLM Policy Is Smarter Than a Ban

Five rust-lang teams will let AI analyze and review code but not author it, with a circuit breaker attached.

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AI Coding Metrics Have a 14 Percent Problem

The researchers behind SPACE say your GenAI dashboards grade the slice of engineering that was never the bottleneck.

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The 14% Problem With AI Coding Tools

New research from Microsoft and academia pins down why AI coding gains keep vanishing between the demo and the dashboard.

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Mistral Shrinks Content Moderation to a Single Token

Shieldstral, a 3B Apache-2.0 guard model, reads your policy as a question and answers with a calibrated score.

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Shieldstral Makes Self-Hosted Moderation Actually Cheap

Mistral's Apache-2.0 3B classifier scores text and images against plain-language policies on a single 16GB GPU.

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Your Best Prompt Is a Decade of Expertise

Terence Tao's ChatGPT transcript shows why the same model does frontier math for experts and boilerplate for everyone else.

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Your Coding Standards Are Becoming Agent Skills

Tikal's 28-skill ADLC framework shows where team standards are headed — and how easy it is to overbuild.

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An 8B Fine-Tune Now Fits in 4 GB of VRAM

Soup streams frozen decoder layers through the GPU one at a time, and proves the arithmetic is bit-exact.

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