Jeff Dean leaves Google: what changes for Gemini devs
Your Gemini API key still works. Worth saying first, because the news out of Mountain View reads like an earthquake if you only scan the names. On 5 August Sundar ...
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Meta Muse Code: Muse Spark 1.2 and the 21x cheaper tier
Meta published three coding benchmark charts on Wednesday and finished first on none of them. Odd way to launch, and it tells you what Muse Code is actually selling. It ...
Qwen 3.8 Max: is it open source? Not yet
Half the headlines this week call Qwen3.8-Max an open source model. Right now it isn't one, and the gap matters if you were planning around it. Alibaba announced the model ...
What Article 50 of the EU AI Act makes you label
Somebody on your team read that Brussels postponed the AI Act and filed it under next year. Half right. The high risk rules did slip, some of them into 2028, ...
Inkling-Small out-codes the 975B flagship at 276B
Two weeks ago we said the honest problem with Inkling was that you probably couldn't run it. Two terabytes of VRAM will do that. Thinking Machines seems to have agreed, ...
OpenAI Astra: what the ten Lean proofs actually prove
OpenAI put ten proofs on GitHub on 1 August and didn't ship a model. That's the shape of this one: an internal version of Astra, its next model family, produced ...
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731: same API, new model
Your DeepSeek bill didn't change last Friday. The model did. On 31 July DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 onto the same deepseek-v4-flash endpoint you were already calling, at the same price, with ...
Amazon’s $1.8M Claude bill: 860% over, 5 months unseen
Somewhere in Amazon's catalogue, a tool was quietly matching author records against product listings. It ran for five months. It never launched, and it burned about $1.8 million in Claude ...
GPT-5.6 price cut: Luna drops 80%, Sol stays at $5
Somebody on your team benchmarked GPT-5.6 three weeks ago and picked a tier. That estimate is now wrong. On 30 July OpenAI cut the API price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ...
OpenAI’s free GPT-5.6 for researchers: what you get
A credit card, for a checkout that totals zero. That's step six of applying to the program OpenAI announced on 29 July, and it tells you more about the shape ...