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Source code in an editor, the kind of software-engineering work Granite 4.2's larger models were trained inside
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IBM Releases Three Self-Hostable Granite Models Under Apache 2.0

The licence matters more than the benchmark: no field-of-use restriction, an explicit patent grant, and nothing leaves your network. IBM's own announcement does not state the context window.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Canal houses in Amsterdam, where DuckDB's maintainers stay based after the AWS acquisition
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AWS Bought DuckDB's Maintainers, Not DuckDB

The project stays MIT-licensed under an independent foundation, and the people who set its technical direction now work for Amazon. What holds is the licence, which cannot be withdrawn from code already published.

29 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Illustrative: several developers working at desktop screens in an open-plan office, with lines of code visible on one monitor.
Developer Tools

Slack Put AI Coding Agents In A Channel Where The Whole Team Can Watch

Slack Code gives an assignment its own channel, with Claude Code, Devin, Copilot and Vercel's agent working where colleagues can audit the diffs. It is on every plan including free, and Slack takes no cut of the tokens.

23 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Hands fanning out a deck of paint colour swatches against a grey wall, illustrating a report on the falling cost of generated imagery.
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Three Cents Per Thousand Images Changes What You Can Build

DeepMind priced Nano Banana 2 Lite at US$0.034 per 1,000 images and Gemini Omni Flash at US$0.10 per second of video. One of those numbers removes cost from the product decision. The other does not.

21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A railway junction where many tracks converge and diverge through switching gear, illustrating a report on the acquisition of a gateway that routes AI requests.
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Stripe Is Buying The Layer That Decides Which AI Model Answers You

OpenRouter routes enterprise work across about 400 models and meters the token spend. A payments company buying it makes more sense than it looks — and it turns model diversification into gateway concentration.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A wall of wooden card-catalogue drawers, every one wearing a small printed label that names what is filed inside
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Where a ComfyUI Node Keeps Its Licence

The registry names a licence for only 15.5% of nodes and puts a bare filename in the field for 59.1% more. We opened 60 of those repositories to find out what was really there, and the answer is better than the field suggests.

20 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Rows of components moving along a factory conveyor line, illustrating a report on infrastructure for running coding agents as a repeatable pipeline.
Developer Tools

Warp Wants You To Run Coding Agents As A Pipeline, Not A Prompt

Warp Factories triages, specs, implements, reviews and verifies, with a different model allowed at every stage. That relocates the bottleneck to review capacity, and it sells model neutrality days after a US$60bn acquisition put it in doubt.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A vintage telephone switchboard with rows of routing switches, a rotary dial and a single handset resting beside it
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What Is ComfyUI, and How Is It Different From Ollama?

Both run AI models on your own machine, and that is where the similarity ends. One is a visual workbench for image, video and audio pipelines with 5,230 custom nodes; the other is a single command that gives you a chatbot. Picking wrongly costs you a weekend.

20 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
An untidy stack of assorted printed documents and forms on a pale desk, edges misaligned and several sheets dog-eared, with a printed grid and handwriting visible on the top page.
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Seventeen Licences You Did Not Choose

This site installs 302 packages under 17 distinct licences. 23 carry copyleft obligations, effectively all from one image library pulled in transitively. And 6 declare an expression rather than a licence — Apache-2.0 AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT means all three at once.

20 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Streaks of blue and white light against a black background, illustrating a report on a rack-scale system claiming much faster token generation per user.
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Cerebras Says Its New Rack Is 30x Faster Than GPUs, Per User

The CS-4 packs three WSE-3 Turbo wafers and 750 petaflops into one rack. The qualifier in the headline claim is per user, which is a different thing from throughput and the whole point of the architecture.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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