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Chinese military officer slams a red VOID stamp onto a shattering digital contract under flags in a graffitied state hall.

chinese government makes its first move in the ai war against the usa

Addy Crezee 27 Apr 2026 1 min read

Executive slams a $0.87 invoice on a boardroom table next to a torn $30.21 bill as two suited men watch under graffiti walls.

Deepseek is starting a price war on the ai market

Addy Crezee 26 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

Armored woman jacks a thick cable into a sparking server rack as electric arcs fan across its panels in a graffitied bunker.

Hermes v0.11 ships 1,556 commits: from wrapper to platform

Addy Crezee 24 Apr 2026 1 min read

Woman in a police lineup with "GPT-5.5" highlighted in neon green above Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1, GPT-5.4 — public model on top.

gpt-5.5 is so much better than opus 4.7 that it can challenge mythos

Nick Trenkler 23 Apr 2026 1 min read

altThree Anthropic men labeled "4.5", "4.6", "4.7" wait under an "OPENROUTER" neon sign — Claude opens to third-party inference.

Anthropic Opens Claude Desktop to OpenRouter: Models or GPUs?

Nick Trenkler 23 Apr 2026 1 min read

Suited Mythos-badge man over "LEAK REPORT" and "CAMPAIGN BRIEF" papers under a spotlight — leak as marketing play.

mythos leak: just marketing?

Nick Trenkler 22 Apr 2026 1 min read

Giant robotic hand lowers Cursor tower into a neon city between $60B and $10B price tags — SpaceX's staged Cursor buyout.

SpaceX Got an Option to Buy Cursor for $60B or Partner for $10B

Addy Crezee 22 Apr 2026 1 min read

Cover image for an article on the rise of persistent memory systems in AI agents

agents that forget don't scale: inside the rise of agentic memory

Julia Daimio 22 Apr 2026 5 min read

Lobster-headed boss in a suit at a "D. CLAUDE" desk with cigar and CRT — agents fight for desktop turf as ChatGPT goes native.

openai is preparing native agents inside chatgpt

Nick Trenkler 21 Apr 2026 1 min read

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