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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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Claude Code v2.1.175
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Claude Code v2.1.175

Anthropic built a model too risky to release
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Anthropic built a model too risky to release

and Meta makes an unexpected entry…

Big lab leaks
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Big lab leaks

Headless software…

My cheatsheet for a clean context
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My cheatsheet for a clean context

fast intelligence, managed infra and desktop apps…

That's my designer - Claude
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That's my designer - Claude

and it comes with a new model, Opus 4.7…

ChatGPT's Nano Banana
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ChatGPT's Nano Banana

testing popular design tools…

Builders
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Builders

GPT-5.5 is a good model…

Building gets easier
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Building gets easier

My tool stack is changing…

Codex is gaining steam
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Codex is gaining steam

but I wish it had this…

Elon doubled limits
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Elon doubled limits

Free ChatGPT got instantly better.…

Ben's Builds #3 - an email app
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Ben's Builds #3 - an email app

They have some challenges 😅…

Learn the system
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Learn the system

are live models making a comeback?…

Agents feedback tip
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Agents feedback tip

all apps will become dev tools…

Can I get my agents on the phone?
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Can I get my agents on the phone?

I haven’t used OpenClaw in weeks…

Google's take on openclaw
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Google's take on openclaw

it's Anthropic's time for the mandate of heaven…

Is SaaS dead?
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Is SaaS dead?

MCP comeback in works…

I signed up for another SaaS
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I signed up for another SaaS

new software benchmark…

Opus 4.8
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Opus 4.8

NVIDIA and Microsoft birthed a new computer…

Build tools, to build more
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Build tools, to build more

Codex Sites and open models…

Hey Siri, meet AI
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Hey Siri, meet AI

what's the deal with loops…

Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches
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Anthropic study shows AI needs hours, not weeks, to build exploits from security patches

Anthropic's security team found that its Mythos Preview AI model can turn security patches for Firefox and the Windows kernel into working exploits within hours…

OpenAI's IPO slips as Altman tells staff to expect a public offering "within the next year"
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OpenAI's IPO slips as Altman tells staff to expect a public offering "within the next year"

Sam Altman told employees he expects an OpenAI IPO "within the next year," but a delay to 2027 is possible. He frames it as caution around self-improving AI, th…

Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word
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Google's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word

Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26-billion-parameter model that generates text not token by token but through diffusion, similar to how image AI turns noise i…

Claude Fable 5: Anthropic admits "wrong tradeoff" after invisibly throttling rival AI researchers
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Claude Fable 5: Anthropic admits "wrong tradeoff" after invisibly throttling rival AI researchers

Anthropic reverses course on a policy that would have secretly undermined AI researchers, but another point of contention persists. The article Claude Fable 5: …

New Claude model - Fable
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New Claude model - Fable

everyone's building with it.…

Dario Amodei's new essay reads like a Cold War playbook for the AI age
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Dario Amodei's new essay reads like a Cold War playbook for the AI age

Anthropic publishes a sweeping essay and two policy frameworks. The company calls for binding audits of frontier models and paints a picture of AI as a strategi…

OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tokens is brewing
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OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tokens is brewing

OpenAI is weighing token price cuts to win customers from Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal reports. The article OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tok…

Free Deezer tool lets users on any streaming service check their playlists for AI music
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Free Deezer tool lets users on any streaming service check their playlists for AI music

Deezer now offers a free AI music detector that lets users on any major streaming platform check whether AI-generated songs are hiding in their playlists. The a…

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation
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Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation. The company launched just last November with $6.2 billion i…

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability …