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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

Comic-style man in leather jacket peeling a 4K monitor screen to reveal a tropical waterfall scene behind graffiti walls

kimi-k2.7-code vs minimax m3 on a frontend task

Nick Trenkler 13 Jun 2026 1 min read

Comic-style founder kneels between massive AWS and LLM server racks, reaching for a contract on the ground in a dark corridor

the stack that eats them: why most agentic ai startups will fail

Nick Trenkler 12 Jun 2026 12 min read

Man pressing a cut button beneath a screen showing 34.4% and Anthropic in a graffiti-covered industrial setting

openai is about to join the price war started by deepseek

Nick Trenkler 11 Jun 2026 4 min read

Comic-style man stamping AI onto a map of Brazil with Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX labels on panels behind him

three private companies now outrank brazil's $2.6t economy

Nick Trenkler 10 Jun 2026 1 min read

new siri ai: not quite a loss to google

Nick Trenkler 10 Jun 2026 4 min read

Two hands reach toward a glowing doorway surrounded by floating PR merge confirmations and restaurant receipts

two open agent models in one day: one codes, one lives

Nick Trenkler 9 Jun 2026 4 min read

Man in patched suit labeled Anthropic and Nous Research faces polished mirror reflection with a $30B price tag

moonshot ai is remixing anthropic and nous research to chase a $30b valuation

Nick Trenkler 8 Jun 2026 1 min read

Man kneeling on cracked circuit board planting a GitHub flag with glowing cracks radiating outward, symbolizing AI constraint

the rise of the constraint layer: five weekly github signals redefining ai engineering

Nick Trenkler 8 Jun 2026 5 min read

Illustrated tattooed hand holding a glowing QAT chip under a spotlight in a graffiti-covered server room

gemma 4 e2b qat: google squeezes an ai model to 0.84 gb

Nick Trenkler 7 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustrated man holding a glowing JSON panel as glitchy image fragments swirl around him in an industrial setting

liquid ai just dropped a tiny model that reads images and pulls out exactly the data you need

Nick Trenkler 5 Jun 2026 2 min read

Gloved hand with pin popping SpaceX and Anthropic balloons against graffiti wall with dystopian messages

inside the tech debate over burry saying neither anthropic nor spacex is worth $1t

Nick Trenkler 3 Jun 2026 3 min read

Comic-style officer stamps envelopes under dim light, wall reads 7 Down 9 To Go — AI lab release tracker for May 2026

7 of 16 top ai labs shipped a model in may 2026

Nick Trenkler 3 Jun 2026 1 min read

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