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Developer Tools 6 min

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, vide...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

Making MiniMax H3 Videos Longer Than 15 Seconds

MiniMax H3 generates video with the sound already in it, and stops at fifteen seconds. Five ComfyUI nodes now exist to g...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 8 min

How to Run MiniMax Music 3 in ComfyUI

MiniMax Music 3 writes complete five-minute songs with sung vocals, and the weights are public. Here is what hardware yo...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 6 min

How Big a "Small" Model Really Is

A parameter count is not a size. Mistral 7B is 14.5 GB of weights before the KV cache exists, and most model repositorie...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 6 min

What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 t...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

Your AI API Call Leaves the Country

From a server in Singapore, OpenAI's API accepts a connection in 6.2ms and takes 237ms to say anything. Anthropic's: 2.3...

Maya Lin

Pub. 19 Aug

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AI & ML 6 min

Who Actually Blocks the AI Crawlers

robots.txt is the one place a publisher's position on AI training has to be written down in public. We read it for 19 ne...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Most of an AI Attack Is an Ordinary Attack

MITRE's AI threat matrix, ATLAS, shares 13 of its 16 tactics with classical ATT&CK. Only two are genuinely new — and jus...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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AI & ML 6 min

What You Are Trusting When You Download a Model

We checked the 1,000 most-downloaded models on the Hugging Face Hub. 99% ship a model card, so documentation is not what...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

Can a Tool Directory Tell You Your AI Act Risk Tier?

We tried to tier all 1,370 entries in our own AI directory against the EU AI Act. A keyword scan gave 42 hits, 26 of the...

Priya Nair

Pub. 18 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

What a Tool Listing Cannot Tell You About AI Risk

We set the ten OWASP LLM risk categories against what our directory of 1,366 AI tools actually records. Four have a fiel...

Priya Nair

Pub. 16 Aug

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Developer Tools 10 min

How to Remove the Background from an Image

There are two methods and almost every article pretends there is one. A flood fill removes what matches the background a...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 9 Aug

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