the pace of model releases in 2026 has become genuinely hard to track. a few years ago, a major new language model was a multi-month event. today, labs ship
Nick Trenkler
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elon musk just admitted in federal court that xai trained grok using openai's models. his defense? "all ai companies do it." he's not wrong.
Addy Crezee
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the public ai discourse this week was familiar: everyone was hyping new model releases, arguing over benchmarks, debating on social media about who is ahead, and wondering whether the future
Julia Daimio
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for the third week in a row, andrej-karpathy-skills by @jiayuan_jy keeps its position among the most-starred github repositories with over 24k stars gained in the last
Nick Trenkler
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should you spend $5K on a Mac Studio or an RTX 5090 for local AI? in this short guide you'll learn: 1. more memory vs more speed – what
Nick Trenkler
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42 ai model releases in just 4 months all across 8 top labs. here's the breakdown: chinese labs: 24 releases us labs: 18 releases who shipped the most:
Nick Trenkler
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tencent just open-sourced a translation model that fits in 440mb and beats models 500x its size how? they compressed a 3.3gb model by storing weights in basically 1
Nick Trenkler
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openai researchers dropped some signals worth paying attention to sebastien bubeck and ernest ryu joined the openai podcast with andrew mayne. here's the trajectory they laid out: • 2
Addy Crezee
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codex is now built for long tasks. but not for users yet? we called it yesterday: openai is optimizing agents for long-horizon thinking. now thibault sottiaux, codex team lead
Nick Trenkler
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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD in
Nick Trenkler
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nvidia keeps dropping free models. they are just ads for their hardware nvidia shipped nemotron 3 nano omni opensource today. there's one thing worth flagging the target user
Addy Crezee
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a nine-person jury was seated on monday in a federal courthouse in oakland, california, in one of the most consequential tech trials in history. opening arguments began tuesday. on
Nick Trenkler
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ming-chi kuo (the analyst who called basically every apple product before it launched) says openai is working with qualcomm + mediatek on a custom processor, with luxshare as manufacturing partner.
Nick Trenkler
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7 ycombinator startups from the winter 2026 batch that raised beyond the standard $500k check – all niche @ycombinator sees it clearly: ai is maturing. building one-for-all ai tool
Nick Trenkler
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china has blocked meta’s $2bn acquisition of ai group manus, saying the deal facilitated the illegal leakage of strategic technology to the us regulators said the transfer violated export
Addy Crezee
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