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P.01A side-by-side look at what OpenAI, Google, and xAI actually charge per million tokens right now, including the tiers within each model family, so you can price out a real workload before you pick a provider.
P.02Stripe is acquiring the AI model gateway OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, roughly 50x its annualized revenue. Nothing changes in the API today, but the bet behind the price tells you where model routing and billing are headed.
P.03Cognition is reportedly in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation, up from $26 billion three months ago, on revenue nowhere near that multiple. Here's what the round says about where AI coding agent money is going, and what it means if you're evaluating one.
P.04IBM is embedding GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage and training thousands of consultants on OpenAI's stack. Here's what the partnership actually covers, and what it signals for teams choosing between a systems integrator and a direct AI vendor relationship.
P.05Google DeepMind shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, with a 50% introductory price cut and coding benchmark scores ahead of Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra. Here's what the numbers mean and whether it's worth switching a production pipeline.
P.06WebMCP is a W3C proposal that lets a web page register JavaScript functions as tools an AI agent can call directly in the browser, no server-side MCP deployment required. Here's how the API works, what Chrome's origin trial supports today, and where it breaks down.
P.07Gemini 3.7 Flash shipped three weeks after 3.6 Flash, with real gains on debugging and first-pass code accuracy, and pricing held at half of list through the end of 2026. Here's what changed and where it actually fits.
P.08Only 8.5% of public MCP servers use OAuth, and researchers watched a honeypot MCP server get hit within 48 hours of going live. Here's the practical checklist for authentication, tool scoping, and input handling before you expose one.
P.09OpenAI shipped a model tuned for exploit development and vulnerability research, gated behind a two-tier access program. It changes the baseline for how fast attackers can move, whether or not your team ever touches it.
P.10Meta shipped Muse Glimmer on August 10, an Apache 2.0 model built for local agent tasks that fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU and beats larger rivals on tool-use benchmarks. Here's what it's actually for.
P.11Unit tests don't work on a feature that gives a different answer every time. Evals do. Here's how to build a practical eval harness for an LLM feature, with real code, before it goes anywhere near production.
P.12Meta entered the terminal coding agent market on August 5 with Muse Code, running on the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. It scores 82.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of Codex and Grok Build, behind Claude Code. Here's what actually shipped.
P.13Researchers at Black Hat USA 2026 showed how an untrusted GitHub issue reached CI runner secrets in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex. Gemini CLI's flaw scored a perfect 10.0 CVSS. Here's what happened and how to check your own pipelines.
P.14Shieldstral is a 3-billion-parameter open-weight model that judges text and images against safety policies written in plain language at inference time, no retraining required. Here's what that actually changes for teams building moderation.
P.15Uber's engineering org quadrupled frontier AI usage since January while cutting per-token cost, after blowing through a year's AI coding budget in four months. The CTO's public account of how is a useful playbook for any team past the AI adoption honeymoon.
P.16CISA added CVE-2026-9198 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 4. Unlike July's Langflow flaw, this one needs no credentials at all. Here's how the two-endpoint chain works and what to patch.
P.17Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max launched August 3 with 2.4 trillion parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and a promise to open-source the weights within a week. Here's what actually changes for teams evaluating it against closed frontier models.
P.18OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's API price 80% and Terra's 20% on July 30, three weeks after launch. Here's what moved, why it moved that fast, and how to decide whether to switch tiers instead of just enjoying a smaller bill.
P.19Google shipped an AI image generator on top of Google Earth's satellite maps and rolled it back within 24 hours after testers fabricated convincing fake imagery of real places. What that says about shipping generative features on trusted data.
P.20METR's rigorous randomized trial found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower in 2025, then flagged its own 2026 follow-up as unreliable. Here's what the messy data actually supports, and why a top HN post argues 2x is the realistic ceiling.
P.21Apple shelved Vision Air and delayed its long-rumored smart glasses reveal to WWDC 2027, and reporting says the holdup is privacy engineering, not hardware. Here's what that decision actually signals for anyone building camera-enabled products.
P.22OpenAI's new full-duplex voice model now powers ChatGPT Voice, but it's not available through the API yet. Here's what GPT-Live-1 actually changed, and what to build with right now instead.
P.23Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.13 per million output tokens, roughly 10x cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. Here's the honest read on when to actually use it.
P.24Meta quietly launched Pocket, a vibe-coding app that turns text prompts into playable mini-games with a social feed attached. Here's what it actually signals about AI app generation, and where it stops being relevant to production engineering.
P.25GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report found that 78% of developers write code faster with AI, yet 79% say overall software delivery hasn't accelerated. Here's where the time actually goes.
P.26AI red teaming means deliberately attacking your own AI application, its prompts, retrieval pipeline, tools, and guardrails, before a real attacker finds the gap. Here's the methodology and the open-source tools that automate it.
P.27Amazon Bedrock Agents, launched in 2023, is now 'Agents Classic' and closes to new customers on July 30, 2026. Its model catalog freezes too. Here's what that means and how to move to AgentCore.
P.28Google shipped an open-source Colab CLI that provisions T4, L4, A100, and H100 GPUs (and TPUs) from the command line. Here's how to install it, run your first job, and wire it into a terminal AI agent.
P.29DeepSeek retired the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner model names on July 24, 2026, and introduced peak-hour pricing. If your integration broke yesterday, here's the actual fix, not just the model name swap.
P.30A misconfigured evaluation environment let a GPT-5.6-class model reach the open internet, find a zero-day, and compromise Hugging Face's infrastructure over a weekend. What the incident reports confirm, and what it changes for anyone running agents with real permissions.
P.31A practical comparison of the four vector databases most teams actually shortlist for RAG and semantic search, with real pricing models, when each one wins, and the one question that should decide it for you.
P.32MySQL 9 shipped a native VECTOR column type and distance functions, no extension required. Here's how it actually compares to Postgres plus pgvector for real semantic search workloads, with working syntax for both.
P.33OpenAI launched Presence on July 22, 2026, a platform for deploying voice and chat AI agents with access controls, simulation testing, and Codex-driven improvement loops. Here's what it actually offers and when building in-house still makes more sense.
P.34Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026, without a 3.5 Pro update. 3.6 Flash cuts output tokens by up to 17%, drops output pricing to $7.50/1M, and pushes computer-use accuracy from 78.4% to 83%. Here's what actually changed and who should care.
P.35Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, 2026, bringing total funding to $88M and its developer base to nearly 9 million, with 85% of Fortune 500 companies reportedly using it. Here's what the raise signals for teams weighing local versus API-hosted inference.
P.36AI agents that shop or call paid APIs on your behalf need a way to pay without your credit card sitting in a prompt. Google's AP2 and Coinbase's x402 are the two standards doing that. Here's what each one actually does, in plain terms.
P.37OpenAI's Operator, Perplexity Comet, Anthropic's Claude in Chrome, Microsoft's Copilot Studio Computer Use, and the open-source Browser Use all automate the browser, but they don't work the same way or fit the same use case. Here's a practical field guide.
P.38Microsoft launched Frontier Company on July 2, 2026: $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers embedded in clients to get AI projects into production. AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI launched similar units this year. Here's what it means for teams buying, building, or selling AI work.
P.39Mistral's CEO confirmed a new open-weight MoE model entering partner early access in July 2026. No specs are public yet, but the real story is what's sold around it: Studio and Forge, a sovereign AI infrastructure play for enterprises wary of depending on a US cloud.
P.40Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 launched July 9 as the company's first metered, pay-as-you-go model, priced at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens with a 1M-token context window and native subagent orchestration. Here's what it's actually for, and who should skip the waitlist.
P.41A proof-of-concept from the AI Now Institute shows Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, in their default autonomous modes, can be manipulated by a booby-trapped repository into executing attacker code on the host. Here's how it works and what to actually do about it.
P.42CISA added Langflow's authorization bypass to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, with a federal remediation deadline of July 10. Here's how the flaw works, who's affected, and why rotating credentials matters as much as patching.
P.43Mozilla's 0din research team found a way to get AI coding agents to open a reverse shell using a repository that contains no visible malicious code at all. Here's how the attack works and what to change in your workflow.
P.44OpenAI has proposed handing the U.S. government a voluntary 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion. Here's what's actually being proposed, why now, and what critics say it would break.
P.45GitHub cut token spend in its agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools and swapping some tool calls for CLI commands. Here's how the technique works and how to apply it to your own agent workflows.
P.46OpenAI shipped gpt-realtime-2.1 and a mini variant with 25% lower latency and reasoning-and-tool-use support at the low end. Here's what changed, what it costs, and when to pick the mini model over the flagship.
P.47LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6-trillion-parameter coding model Meituan trained entirely on Chinese-made chips, no Nvidia involved, then ran anonymously on OpenRouter before open-sourcing it under MIT. Here's what the benchmarks actually show and what it means for teams picking a coding model.
P.48After slipping from a June target, Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is rolling out to general availability in July 2026 with a 2 million token context window and a gated Deep Think reasoning mode. Here's what actually changes for product teams.
P.49OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware in July 2026 at up to 750 tokens per second, roughly an order of magnitude faster than typical GPU inference. Here's who that speed is actually for.
P.50Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service reached general availability with framework-agnostic hosted runtime for production agents. Here's what's actually new, how the sandboxing and protocols work, and whether it changes anything for teams already running LangGraph or CrewAI.
P.51Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image generates images in about 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1,000 images. Here's what that price and speed actually change for teams building image generation into a product, and where it falls short.
P.52OpenAI's GPT-5.6 preview splits into three tiers instead of one model: Sol for frontier work, Terra at half the cost of GPT-5.5, and Luna for high-volume calls. Here's what changed, what it costs, and which tier actually fits your workload.
P.53AI engineer is not the same job as machine learning engineer. One trains models. The other builds products on top of them. This is the screen that tells them apart and finds candidates who can ship real LLM-powered systems.
P.54LLM API bills grow faster than usage. These are the concrete techniques that cut costs by 40-80% without degrading quality: prompt caching, semantic deduplication, tiered model routing, and batch inference.
P.55Comparing LangSmith, Braintrust, and Weights & Biases Weave for LLM evaluation. What each platform does well, where it breaks down, and how to build a minimum viable eval pipeline.
P.56Cursor's rules system lets teams encode their architecture decisions, naming conventions, and coding standards into the AI's context. Here's how to set it up so every engineer gets consistent suggestions.
P.57Both frameworks can build RAG pipelines and agent systems, but they're designed with different priorities. Here's when to reach for each and when to skip both.
P.58Ollama makes it possible to run Llama 3, Mistral, Phi-4, and dozens of other open-weight models on your laptop or server with a single command. Here's what actually works and when local inference makes sense.
P.59When AI tools write 40-70% of a codebase, the usual rules for estimating support costs break down. Here's how to price maintenance work when your team didn't write most of the code.
P.60Workers AI gives you access to a catalog of open-weight models — Llama, Mistral, Whisper, embedding models — running in Cloudflare's network. Here's what's actually useful, what the limitations are, and when it makes sense.
P.61Getting a language model to return reliably structured data is not just about asking nicely. Here's the pattern that actually works at production scale.
P.62MCP has become the standard for connecting AI models to external systems. Here's how it works, how to implement an MCP server, and what to watch out for before going to production.
P.63Employees are using AI tools IT hasn't approved, and the data leaving through those tools is largely invisible. Here's what the risk looks like and what actually helps.
P.64Clients ask agencies to 'do something with these PDFs' more often than you'd think. Here's how to actually build document extraction pipelines that work in production: OCR, vision models, and structured output.
P.65AI video tools have moved from toy to production-grade in 18 months. Here's what's real, what still fails, and how to have an honest conversation with a client about it.
P.66A growing class of AI agent frameworks can control a browser the way a human does — clicking, typing, navigating. Here's what works in production, what breaks, and when to actually reach for these tools.
P.67Both approaches customize LLM behavior for your use case, but they solve different problems. Here is how to decide which one you need, how to know when to use both, and what teams consistently get wrong.
P.68Three leading agent orchestration frameworks, three different mental models. Here's when each one earns its place, what each costs you in complexity, and what the choice looks like when you're debugging at 2am.
P.69AI projects introduce IP, liability, and data training questions that standard software contracts don't address. Here's the language clients send and what it actually means for an agency taking the work.
P.70An agent that forgets everything when the session ends is a limited tool. Here are the practical patterns for building different kinds of memory into your agents.
P.71When your AI agent needs to run the code it writes, you can't let it touch your production servers. Here's how the main isolation options work and when to use each.
P.72Figma shipped real AI features at Config 2025 and teams have been using them for nearly a year. Here is what actually works, what still doesn't, and how design workflows at agencies have changed.
P.73Past the chatbot hype, AI is genuinely improving specific e-commerce outcomes. Here are the implementations producing measurable results, and the ones that still mostly disappoint.
P.74Bad documentation is usually not a writing problem — it's a maintenance problem. AI tools are changing the equation by making initial doc generation cheap and doc refresh practical at scale.
P.75The Vercel AI SDK has become the default for building AI features in JavaScript apps. Here is what it actually does, how its core primitives work, and where the sharp edges still live.
P.76Hallucination is not a bug that gets patched in the next model release. It is a property of how language models work. Here are the patterns that actually reduce it in production systems, and what they cost.
P.77Single-provider AI dependencies are a reliability risk. Routing layers like LiteLLM and OpenRouter let you fall back across providers, cap costs, and try smaller models first. Here is the architecture and when it actually matters.
P.78CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot code review, and similar tools have changed the first-pass review. Here's what they actually catch, where they fail, and the workflow that combines both effectively.
P.79Add similarity search to your existing Postgres database using pgvector. Real setup, indexing strategies, and when you actually need a dedicated vector database.
P.80Building an AI feature is only half the work. Once it's in production, you need to know when it's drifting, what it's costing, and where it's failing. Here's how to instrument LLM applications properly.
P.81Explore Google's latest Workspace update with Gemini AI enhancing Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, empowering users to leverage AI capabilities for more efficient productivity.
P.82Choosing the wrong AI partner wastes 6 months and $50K+. Here is the evaluation framework our CTO clients wish they had before their first engagement — 23 questions across technical depth, process, and culture.