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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

DeepSeek V4 Flash on One AMD GPU Took Nine Patches

A single 192 GB MI300X now serves the full checkpoint — proof of AMD's hardware edge and its lingering software gap.

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Your SSD Is the New VRAM for Local LLMs

Swiftlet streams sparse Qwen experts off disk, fitting an 80B model into 4.3 GB of Mac RAM.

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Your SSD Is the New VRAM

Swiftlet streams MoE experts from SSD, fitting an 80B Qwen in 4.3GB of RAM — and a 35B on an iPhone.

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OpenAI Just Priced Mathematical Discovery at $200 a Problem

Astra's Lean-verified proofs are real, but the token bill and a rival model's one-day replication tell the bigger story.

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Qwen's 16-Day Coding Run Sets a New Bar for Receipts

The public git trace matters more than the model — and the orchestration harness is the part worth stealing.

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$Cloudflare's Quantization Math Is Right. The Disclosure Isn't$

Cloudflare's Quantization Math Is Right. The Disclosure Isn't

FP8 caches and INT4 weights are becoming table stakes; what providers tell you at purchase time is the real fight.

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Quantize the Decode, Not the Prefill

Cloudflare's production numbers for Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2 show where trillion-parameter inference actually gets cheaper.

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Rust Finally Moves to Kill Pin

A newly accepted 2026 goal adds Move, Forget, and Destruct traits — and quietly fixes async Rust's original sin.

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Why Your COBOL Migration Should Keep the Bugs

American Express researchers show where LLMs actually belong in mainframe modernization: writing the tests, not the Java.

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AirLLM's 4GB 70B Trick Is Real, and Beside the Point

Layer streaming makes giant models fit; disk bandwidth decides whether you'd ever want to run them that way.

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MiniMax H3 Drains the Last Moat in Open Video

Native stereo audio and 2K clips land in ComfyUI day-0 — but the license carves out the US and EU.

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Retyping AI Code Is a Symptom, Not the Cure

A viral plea to hand-copy every line of LLM output gets the mechanism wrong and the diagnosis right.

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Claude Has Spent Two Weeks Rewriting Its Own App

Boris Cherny's runaway Swift-rewrite experiment shows agent quality is now bounded by verifier quality, not model quality.

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GitHub Models Got 29 Days. Plan Your AI Stack Accordingly

Microsoft retired its free inference API with under a month's hard notice, paying customers included. That's the real lesson.

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The EU Can Now Fine AI Model Makers. Are You One?

GPAI enforcement begins, transparency rules hit everyone, and heavy fine-tuning can quietly make you a regulated provider.

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