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Illustration of a man studying a holographic rifle blueprint in a workshop, for an AI coding benchmark article

claude opus 5 writes the best 3d guns – at half the price of fable 5

Nick Trenkler 25 Jul 2026 3 min read

Illustration of an F1 driver in red racing suit beside a robotic arm in a garage, on ex-red bull engineer funding factory robots

a red bull racing engineer quit formula 1 to teach factory robots how to do human jobs. this week he raised the largest seed round germany has ever seen

Addy Crezee 21 Jul 2026 1 min read

xiaomi's mimo-v2.5 owns the ultra-long-context tier on openrouter – 31.6% of all 1m–10m token requests, ~4x the next model

Nick Trenkler 20 Jul 2026 1 min read

Muscular OpenAI runner grips a green keypad at a graffiti track start line, outpacing Meta and rival lab sprinters.

openai codex micro keypad breakdown

Addy Crezee 16 Jul 2026 1 min read

Noir bar illustration with figures labeled OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI clutching files, xAI shoving one forward

xai open-sourced its coding agent – four days after getting caught uploading developers' entire codebases

Nick Trenkler 16 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated man with arms crossed beside a giant funnel compressing floating documents into a single glowing drop in a dark office

founder of ai finance platform hebbia posted an article on managing agents like managing employees. we wrote out the key insights

Nick Trenkler 15 Jul 2026 2 min read

Illustrated man at desk over world map labeled Brazil, India, Taiwan with charts and graffiti on walls

a third of the entire emerging markets index is now three chip stocks

Nick Trenkler 13 Jul 2026 1 min read

Butler presenting silver platters with tech gadgets and a $2.255B price tag in neon-lit room

meta and snap put cameras on smart glasses. this week $150m went to the version without one.

Addy Crezee 12 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figures in tug-of-war pulling cables from a glowing Nvidia server amid graffiti reading "out" and "deal closed"

deepseek is joining top ai labs in developing its own ai chip

Nick Trenkler 7 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated VAR offside check at FIFA World Cup 2026: Brazil player kicks ball past Haiti defender, tracking line overlay

the world cup is the biggest live ai deployment on earth – and a free masterclass if you build

Vladimir Arustamov 7 Jul 2026 6 min read

gemini 3.5 pro leak: what we know and how x users are testing it

Nick Trenkler 6 Jul 2026 7 min read

alibaba restricted its employees from using anthropic's claude code and all claude models

Addy Crezee 5 Jul 2026 1 min read

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