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Robots at a long table devour glowing token cubes while a lone human watches, beside a 5.6T/wk cart — agent token economy.

OpenRouter Tokens 7x in a Year. Agents Now Eat 5.6T a Week

Nick Trenkler 12 Apr 2026 1 min read

Cover image for an article on why MiniMax open-sourcing M2.7 matters

minimax open-sourced m2.7 late. here's why that matters

Nick Trenkler 12 Apr 2026 4 min read

Cracked metal funnel leaking seven colored streams past broken TV, billboard and app icons — AI distribution metaphor.

How Midjourney, DeepSeek and 5 More Cracked AI-Era Distribution

Nick Trenkler 11 Apr 2026 2 min read

MiniMax terminal with cable arms holding film reel, speaker, mic, music notes, paintbrush and 3D skull — multimodal CLI.

MiniMax mmx-cli Bundles 7 Modalities Into One Agent Interface

Nick Trenkler 10 Apr 2026 1 min read

Armored red lobster robot at a sealed door beside a red Access Denied screen shredding an API key — OAuth cut visual.

Anthropic Restricts OpenClaw Founder's Account After OAuth Cuts

Addy Crezee 10 Apr 2026 1 min read

Tiny robot on pedestal unspooling a giant receipt in a neon server room as hooded figures watch — the real cost of LLM vuln hunting.

LLM Agents vs Mythos: The Real Cost of Vulnerability Hunting

Nick Trenkler 9 Apr 2026 1 min read

Neon colosseum: armored warrior stands over a pile of defeated robots — AI startup survival and moat metaphor.

87% of YC Startups Survive 5 Years. 90% of AI Startups Won't

Nick Trenkler 9 Apr 2026 1 min read

Three scientists face a chained cage with a glowing orange vortex and green lightning — AI cybersecurity threat visual.

AI Cybersecurity Funding Hits $14B as Breakout Time Drops to 27s

Addy Crezee 9 Apr 2026 1 min read

Openclaw vs Hermes Agent boxing match illustration — two AI agents face off in a neon wrestling ring

openclaw vs hermes agent: how to choose between them

Addy Crezee 7 Apr 2026 6 min read

a wired-up brain faces a graffiti-framed mirror reflecting a glowing upgraded brain — ai improving itself through its own r&d

ai just crossed an important line: it's starting to do its own r&d

Nick Trenkler 6 Apr 2026 2 min read

cartoon of sam altman as a sweating surgeon operating on a body wired with an ai chip and dollar bills, error screen behind

altman sounds the alarm: ai could destabilize the economy

Addy Crezee 6 Apr 2026 1 min read

Chaotic collage of broken TVs, cracked phones, spam popups, and screaming posters cut by a green signal beam — noise vs signal for founders.

welcome to thehype

Addy Crezee 6 Apr 2026 1 min read

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