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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

Man with OpenAI patch examines miniature chained London landmarks through magnifying glass, monitors glowing behind him

gpt 5.6 sol pro vs claude fable 5 vs grok 4.5 vs glm 5.2

Nick Trenkler 10 Jul 2026 2 min read

Hand holding a phone showing an @-mention field building a woman's face from a photo grid at 60%

muse image vs gpt image 2 vs nano banana 2 vs reve 2.0

Nick Trenkler 8 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figures in tug-of-war pulling cables from a glowing Nvidia server amid graffiti reading "out" and "deal closed"

deepseek is joining top ai labs in developing its own ai chip

Nick Trenkler 7 Jul 2026 1 min read

gemini 3.5 pro leak: what we know and how x users are testing it

Nick Trenkler 6 Jul 2026 7 min read

Illustrated chess board with purple rooks surrounding green knight, red bishop, and white queen labeled java, c, c#.

deepseek v4 flash tops 8 of 11 coding languages on openrouter

Nick Trenkler 4 Jul 2026 1 min read

Hooded figure pressing DELETE on a monitor displaying a cosine similarity heatmap while shadowy crowd films with phones

fable 5 scored 0.97 similarity to kimi – and the proof got deleted

Nick Trenkler 3 Jul 2026 1 min read

Cyberpunk illustration of a developer circling errors on papers at a multi-monitor desk with skull patches on his jacket

fable 5 flash: we tested 5 prompts, got zero usable outputs

Nick Trenkler 2 Jul 2026 1 min read

Armored figure crossing finish line with $22.9K receipt as a lobster holding $20K cash trails behind in graffiti tunnel

hermes 2.3x faster but not cheaper: openclaw extraction benchmark

Nick Trenkler 1 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic-style pilots in red and black jackets face off at a table as drones compete overhead in a gritty industrial room

new gemini omni flash vs seedance 2.0 vs happy horse 1.1 vs veo 3.1

Nick Trenkler 1 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic-style men in suits studying blueprints at a table while a figure welds on scaffolding in a neon-lit construction site

four models, three canvas tasks: sonnet 5 does more with less

Nick Trenkler 1 Jul 2026 2 min read

Cyberpunk operator at monitors displaying X trending topics, bookmarks, and draft article editor

x launches mcp. here's what we get

Nick Trenkler 30 Jun 2026 1 min read

Cyberpunk illustration of a man wearing a brain-scanning headset typing on a keyboard with electric sparks in a dark lab

meta's brain2qwerty decodes keystrokes from brain scans, not thoughts

Nick Trenkler 30 Jun 2026 1 min read

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