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Jun 2026
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AI & ML

Moonshot Wants 30% of What the Clouds Earn From Its Model

The usual arrangement runs the other way: the platform takes a cut from the model. Asking Microsoft, Amazon and Google to pay a share of their own revenue is a claim about which layer is scarce.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk, and AI Did Not Replace Those Workers

The marketplace Bezos called artificial artificial intelligence closes on 30 September. Demand for human judgement grew; it just moved to people with credentials, who cost more than three cents a task.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

Grok Is Taking 15,000 Starlink Calls a Day and Shipping Hardware Unsupervised

Seventy per cent of support contacts are resolved with no human in the loop, across 28 tools that can dispatch replacements and open accounts. Containment is a cost metric, and the caller is untrusted input.

25 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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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
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AI & ML

Given Only A Bibliography, Frontier Models Recover The Idea 3 To 15 Per Cent Of The Time

A benchmark called Reconstruction asks models to recover a paper's central idea from its reference list alone. Single models manage 3 to 15 per cent. A multi-agent tournament design reaches 42 per cent, which is the more interesting number.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Developer Tools

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
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Developer Tools

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
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Developer Tools

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
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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
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Developer Tools

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
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