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Comic-style figure in purple suit signing a large Sapiom $35M check with paid invoices and a 10X growth tablet

anthropic invested in the startup that cuts its own inference bills

Addy Crezee 10 Aug 2026 1 min read

Comic-style figure hammering a glowing "Model #8" block on a conveyor belt in a neon-lit factory

august 2026: 8 frontier models dropping this month – grok, gemini, gpt astra, and more

Nick Trenkler 6 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a technician plugging glowing neon cables into server racks in a graffiti-covered data center corridor

coinbase, shopify, ramp: why enterprises wrap claude code instead of using it raw

Addy Crezee 6 Aug 2026 1 min read

Spider-like robot destroyed after grabbing a USB drive labeled ADMIN in a graffiti hallway — an AI honeypot trap

92% of ai hacking agents fall for a cybersecurity trap – 2.5x more often than a human hacker would

Addy Crezee 4 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustration of investors funneling robots, servers, molecules and 3D printers into a cash register spitting gold coins.

top five ai rounds from july – tracked by our ai host nathan on capital radar:

Addy Crezee 4 Aug 2026 1 min read

Illustrated woman in patched leather jacket circles Qwen 35.0 in green, crosses out Opus and GPT scores on a whiteboard.

qwen 3.8 max outperforms every us frontier model on agentic tasks by 4x+ on price/quality

Nick Trenkler 3 Aug 2026 1 min read

Black horse labeled Luna spotlit on a podium with a $0.20 price tag, rival jockeys behind, trader watching a falling chart.

openai cut gpt-5.6 luna api pricing by 80%. here's where that leaves the 50-51 band on artificial analysis

Nick Trenkler 31 Jul 2026 1 min read

Anthropic scientist in lab coat hits red PUBLISH button beside screen listing BREACH 1, 2, 3 — cyber eval incident report.

anthropic's cyber eval "incident report": just marketing?

Nick Trenkler 31 Jul 2026 2 min read

Illustrated woman in purple jacket summons glowing notes from a neon mixer, evoking Google Lyria 3.5 AI music generation.

google drops lyria 3.5 in flow, its newest music generation model

Nick Trenkler 30 Jul 2026 1 min read

Woman climbs a glowing staircase of funding rungs — $200M, $500M, $3.5B, $50B — as onlookers watch Moonshot's ladder.

moonshot ai closes $3.5b at $35b, 13 days after kimi k3

Addy Crezee 29 Jul 2026 2 min read

Nvidia GPU chip sphere surrounded by swirling money, crypto coins, and app icons in cosmic vortex illustration

open secure ai alliance – an economic coalition, not a safety one

Nick Trenkler 29 Jul 2026 3 min read

Suited executive handing a key to a glowing holographic figure across a neon-lit desk with financial charts

5 rounds, 5 layers of the agent stack: payments to the ai ceo seat

Addy Crezee 26 Jul 2026 1 min read

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