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Nick Trenkler

Contributing Journalist & Content Creator at thehype. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Master’s in Marketing. He has been leading marketing for AI startups since 2024, with experience in media, digital strategy, and tech-focused content.

ARTICLES BY Nick Trenkler

Tired man in a wired chair lifts a glowing crown of gold stars between server racks tagged The Grind and Week 3.

karpathy's skills repo holds top spot on github 3 weeks running

Nick Trenkler 30 Apr 2026 3 min read

Hooded builder holds a glowing RTX 5090 GPU and a Mac Studio over a motherboard, graffiti reads "Builder Hustle" and "Apple"

mac studio vs rtx 5090: the $5k local ai build decision

Nick Trenkler 30 Apr 2026 4 min read

Worker in worn overalls operates an industrial press stamping glowing AI-labeled discs in a dark workshop

chinese labs outship us 24 to 18 in the 2026 model race

Nick Trenkler 30 Apr 2026 1 min read

Man squeezes a GPU-style chip dripping yellow liquid into a "1 BIT" microchip — extreme translation model compression.

tencent open-sourced a 440mb translator that beats 220gb models

Nick Trenkler 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

Codex-badged man and woman hold a pixel-art landscape with floating trees in a graffitied corridor — long-task agent fails.

codex now runs long tasks. we tested It — trees flew

Nick Trenkler 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

Man in glasses sits under a spotlight before a graffitied mural of a glowing figure with a neural-network head and outstretched arms.

demis hassabis, ceo of google deepmind, gave an interview about agi

Nick Trenkler 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

musk vs. altman. the full prehistory

Nick Trenkler 28 Apr 2026 6 min read

Sam Altman on a throne holding a glowing OpenAI phone, surrounded by broken iPhones, graffiti wall behind him

why would openai build its own smartphone?

Nick Trenkler 27 Apr 2026 3 min read

Suited man brands a YC mark onto a stack of folders tagged Law, Space, Bank, and Ranch under graffitied walls and neon waves.

7 YC W26 startups raised above $500K — all vertical AI

Nick Trenkler 27 Apr 2026 1 min read

Young runner sprints past a hunched figure at a Meta-tagged starting line as glowing 54%, 73%, and 94% scorecards trail behind.

a phone company beats a tech giant in ai with 12x less investment

Nick Trenkler 25 Apr 2026 1 min read

Man in coveralls welds a server rack labeled Colossus between rows of glowing green data center cabinets in a graffitied hall.

Why Big Tech won't fund xAI: no cloud leverage to sell

Nick Trenkler 24 Apr 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figure in a suit eating from a glowing bowl of coins at a dark table — symbolizing China's growing capture of the AI token market.

china is eating america’s ai market

Nick Trenkler 24 Apr 2026 2 min read

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