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Suited man drives a chisel into a cracked stone wall carved with Scale, More, Params as green light bursts through behind.

tiny 7M-param model beats openai's o3 on arc prize

Nick Trenkler 1 May 2026 2 min read

Hand on a CANCEL key beside a CRT reading "xAI PROMO PERIOD EXPIRED" in an emptied PC lab — devs leave when free ends.

competition on ai market: lesson of xai

Nick Trenkler 1 May 2026 5 min read

Suited man stands over a glowing circuit board in a dark courtroom as a hand signs an xAI v. OpenAI document beside it.

musk admits xai trained grok on openai models in court

Addy Crezee 1 May 2026 2 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 1 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

Armored runner sprints past "HOURS" tape toward "DAYS" and "WEEKS" lines in a graffitied corridor — AI reasoning grows.

openai: ai now reasons for days, weeks are next

Addy Crezee 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

Suited man cuts a green Open Source ribbon wrapped around a glowing server rack tagged with a dollar price under spotlight.

Nvidia ships Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: free model, paid hardware

Addy Crezee 28 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

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