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DevDeepSeek swapped deepseek-flash today, and there’s no id to pin backOn 17 October DeepSeek put V4.1-Flash-1017 behind deepseek-flash, same price, bigger agent scores. The API offers no dated id for the old…17 October 2026DevGranite Switch 4.1 won’t install next to this month’s vLLMIBM released Granite Switch 4.1 on 15 October. The model cards pin vLLM below 0.28, the plugin allows up to 0.30, and…17 October 2026DevBeam’s weights are out, and vLLM support is still an open pull requestReflection published Beam 1.0 weights on 16 October: 1,002.68 GB in BF16, 293.65 GB in NVFP4, plain Apache 2.0. Transformers 5.20.1 loads…16 October 2026DevIs Opus 5.5 fast mode worth $40 per million output tokens?Since 15 October, fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5 needs no waitlist or beta header. We stacked every multiplier on the $8/$40…16 October 2026DevFine-tune on Muse Spark Open outputs and you owe Meta a credit lineMuse Spark Open went up on Hugging Face on 15 October under an MIT-style licence with three strings: a Built with credit…16 October 2026DevNemotron 3.5 Bolt says 24GB on the label and 28GB in the recipeNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B on 15 October. The files the recipe loads total 24.75 GB, there is no 24 GB…15 October 2026SysadminClaude API traces won’t reach a collector on 4318 or a private IPAnthropic shipped OpenTelemetry trace export for the Claude API on 14 October. We read the delivery rules: port 443 only, public hostnames…15 October 2026DevMeta’s API sells Muse Wonder, not the Wonder Full that tops its chartMeta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. We read the model card and the price page: the API…15 October 2026DevLFM2.5-24B-A2B beats Qwen3.6 at tools and loses SWE-Bench by 15 pointsLiquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B with open weights. We read the full benchmark table and the license: strong at tool calls, weak at…14 October 2026DevRequests to gemini-3.7-flash now get 3.8 Flash, with no shutdown dateGoogle deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash on 8 October and routes its traffic to 3.8 Flash, a month after calling 3.7 the efficiency…12 October 2026DevOpenAI’s Decisions API charges $0.10 in and nothing out, with no cacheDecisions returns a probability, a choice or a score instead of text, on gpt-6-luna only. It's $0.10 in and free out, but…11 October 2026DevGPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast bills six times Sol and 1.2 times AstraUltrafast on GPT-6.1 Sol costs $12 and $60 per million tokens: six times standard Sol, three times Fast, and 1.2 times Astra…10 October 2026DevClaude Haiku 5.5 is $0.10 per million until a prompt passes 100KAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October at $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens. The footnote matters more than the headline:…8 October 2026DevReflection Beam is a 501B open model with no weights yetReflection AI's Beam is a 501B mixture of experts with an Apache 2.0 promise, a waitlist and benchmark scores nobody outside can…6 October 2026DevKolibri-1 serves 1M tokens but was trained to 256KAleph Alpha released Kolibri-1 on 3 October 2026 under Apache 2.0. The headline says 1M tokens of context. The model card says…4 October 2026DevGemini 4 Argon costs $2 and $10 now, $4 and $20 laterGoogle listed Gemini 4 Argon at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens on 30 September 2026, with a later rate…2 October 2026DevGPT-6.1 Sol costs what GPT-6 Sol did, and only the cache got cheaperA fifth of Astra’s price, yes. Against GPT-6 Sol, the only price that moved is cached input, cut from $0.20 to $0.10.30 September 2026DevClaude Sonnet 5.5 keeps $2 and $10 and retires thinking disabledSame $2 and $10 price as Sonnet 5, benchmarks within two or three points of Opus 5.5, and a disabled thinking setting…29 September 2026DevMiMo-V2.6-Pro was quietly retrained to stop looping on tool callsSame model names, new weights. Xiaomi retrained MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash to stop repeating tool calls, shipped it to the API first and…28 September 2026DevAnthropic’s $11.6B Akamai deal buys CPUs, not GPUsSeven years, $11.6 billion, up to about $20 billion with options, and not one GPU. We read Akamai's 8-K and the call…27 September 2026DevGoogle’s first Suncatcher satellite flies four TPUs on 1 kWGoogle’s first Project Suncatcher satellite is a survival test: four Trillium TPUs, about a kilowatt of solar power, bursts of roughly 15…25 September 2026DevClaude Opus 5.5 drops to $4 and $20, and breaks four Opus 5 habitsAnthropic cut Opus to $4 and $20 per million tokens and cache reads by 60%. The catch is four request shapes that…23 September 2026DevGrok 4.7 keeps $2 and $6, and its gains over 4.6 are xhigh versus highxAI shipped Grok 4.7 on 21 September at the same $2 and $6 per million as 4.6, same 500K window, same 200K…22 September 2026DevQwen-Image-2.1 brings the weights back, but not the Apache licenceThe Qwen image line has downloadable weights again: a 7B transformer, an 8B text encoder and an RGBA VAE. The licence is…21 September 2026DevDoes Bonsai 2 27B really keep 98% of Qwen3.8 in 5.95 GB?PrismML released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on 17 September 2026, a 1.72-bit version of Qwen3.8 27B that fits in 5.95 GB. We…20 September 2026DevJev 1.13 bills $42 a billion tokens, and it can’t countOn 15 September 2026 TypeSafe AI put Jev 1.13 into early access: a text-in, probability-out model at $42 per billion input tokens…19 September 2026DevQwen3.8-Omni-Flash bills audio at $0.15 and ships no weightsOn 17 September 2026 the Qwen team put Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash on Model Studio at $0.15 in and $0.47 out for every modality. No…18 September 2026SysadminAWS can’t restore me-south-1, six months after the drone strikesOn 15 September 2026 AWS said it can't restore data hosted exclusively in me-south-1 or in mec1-az2. Multi-AZ did what it was…17 September 2026DevGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking rejects any tool that blocksGoogle shipped two Live models on 15 September 2026 at the old audio price. The Extended Thinking one reasons while it talks,…16 September 2026DevAtria Dawn Preview is 744B under MIT, and the BF16 weighs 1.5 TBNo launch post and no price list, but 1.5 TB of MIT weights on the 744B GLM-5.2 base, a 16-row benchmark table…15 September 2026

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DevxAI Grok 4.5 is here: cheap, fast, coding-firstxAI shipped Grok 4.5 on July 8, and the number that matters is not a benchmark, it's the price: $2 in, $6…8 July 2026DevClaude Fable 5 vs Grok 4.5: is 8x cheaper worth it?Two coding models, one released a week apart, sitting at opposite ends of the market. Claude Fable 5 is the benchmark king:…8 July 2026DevClaude Fable 5 is back: what each effort level costsClaude Fable 5 lasted three days. Launched June 9, suspended June 12 under a US export control order, and as of July…2 July 2026DevClaude Sonnet 5 vs Fable 5: is the top model worth 5x?Anthropic pulled off a strange double feature. On June 30 it launched Sonnet 5 at $2 in and $10 out per million…2 July 2026DevClaude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8: cheaper, nearly as goodOn June 30 Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, made it the default in Claude Code, and priced it to make you look…1 July 2026SecurityProton Lumo 2.0 review: how private is it, really?Proton shipped Lumo 2.0 on June 30, and the headline writes itself: a private ChatGPT alternative, built in Europe, that got a…1 July 2026SecurityNo, Claude Mythos didn’t hack the NSA: what really happenedFor a few days in June 2026 the internet was sure an AI had hacked the NSA. Claude Mythos, Anthropic's frontier model,…22 June 2026DevGPT-5.6 vs GPT-5.5: what actually changedOpenAI started previewing GPT-5.6 in June 2026, and the first surprise is that GPT-5.6 isn't a model, it's three. The new naming…22 June 2026DevQwen 3.7 Max vs GLM-5.2: benchmarks, price and the catchAlibaba dropped Qwen 3.7 Max in May 2026, and within days the coding crowd was lining it up against GLM-5.2, the open-weight…22 June 2026Email & DNSHow to read a DMARC report: the aggregate XML, decodedSo you switched DMARC on, and now google.com mails you a little .xml.gz file every morning. You open one, meet a wall…20 June 2026SysadminLinux file permissions explained: rwx and 755You chmod a file, it works, you move on, and permissions stay a thing you never quite have to learn. Then a…20 June 2026SysadminMB vs MiB: why your 1 TB drive shows up as 931 GBYou buy a 1 TB drive, plug it in, and Windows cheerfully reports 931 GB. Nothing's broken and nobody robbed you, but…20 June 2026