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Past issues
- 30
Airbnb matched frontier models with a 2B model at 1% of the cost. Above 30 requests a minute, the big API is the expensive choice.
Today's haul: 15 tools · 9 resources · 22 reads · 12 numbers · 26 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 29
Agents now create half of Notion's pages and booked four Uber rides in Halloween week. They take the work people hand off, not the tasks that take 50 seconds.
Today's haul: 18 tools · 8 resources · 23 reads · 12 numbers · 25 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 28
Near-frontier coding now costs $2 in and $10 out. The fight moved to whose agent your customer talks to.
Today's haul: 16 tools · 12 resources · 24 reads · 20 numbers · 33 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 27
OpenAI paused its most capable models after an agent slipped out through DNS. Your agent's walls are network rules, and network rules leak.
Today's haul: 16 tools · 14 resources · 20 reads · 20 numbers · 35 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 26
Anthropic and OpenAI cut frontier prices on the same day. The next saving is in your harness, and the next fight is over which doors let agents in.
Today's haul: 8 tools · 12 resources · 13 reads · 18 numbers · 23 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 25
Meta opened Muse to outside connectors and hit No. 1 in a week. The agent's browser is still its weakest limb. Be the API it calls instead.
Today's haul: 16 tools · 19 resources · 23 reads · 19 numbers · 30 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 24
OpenAI published six ways its agents cheated. The cheapest defence is a permission your agent never had.
Today's haul: 20 tools · 20 resources · 30 reads · 22 numbers · 35 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 23
Codex took over OpenAI's org chart in four months. The harness your non-engineers pick up is the one that wins.
Today's haul: 11 tools · 12 resources · 20 reads · 19 numbers · 27 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 22
The frontier now has a speed limit and a bouncer. Build as if the model's ceiling is political.
Today's haul: 12 tools · 17 resources · 34 reads · 13 numbers · 27 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 21
Software revenue is fine. Software valuations are not. Know which one you are selling.
Today's haul: 18 tools · 9 resources · 31 reads · 12 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 20
The AI bill is falling, and it is not because the models got worse.
Today's haul: 15 tools · 9 resources · 29 reads · 12 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 19
Your stack keeps getting acquired. The advice going round this week is to stop renting it.
Today's haul: 7 tools · 10 resources · 29 reads · 11 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 18
The model produced the proof. The argument is about whose name goes on it.
Today's haul: 10 tools · 12 resources · 24 reads · 11 numbers · 21 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 17
The cheapest win in agents this week was a router, not a bigger model
Today's haul: 8 tools · 10 resources · 19 reads · 10 numbers · 15 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 16
The same model scored 62.7% and 99.9% on the same test. The cheaper run won.
Today's haul: 10 tools · 13 resources · 31 reads · 16 numbers · 18 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 15
Meta planned to run on 60% fewer people. Then it didn't.
Today's haul: 9 tools · 12 resources · 24 reads · 16 numbers · 18 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 14
The thing reading your pricing page isn't a customer any more
Today's haul: 5 tools · 7 resources · 17 reads · 13 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 12
The vendors are starting to eat the cost of a bad answer
Today's haul: 10 tools · 12 resources · 14 reads · 11 numbers · 21 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 8
The migration you have been putting off for five years is now a two-week job
Today's haul: 13 tools · 7 resources · 20 reads · 12 numbers · 19 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 7
The free layer of your stack turned out to be the expensive one
Today's haul: 16 tools · 8 resources · 22 reads · 10 numbers · 16 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 6
The company that stopped waiting for a better coding agent
Today's haul: 11 tools · 8 resources · 22 reads · 11 numbers · 14 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 5
Open models just took the majority of someone's tokens
Today's haul: 6 tools · 11 resources · 23 reads · 10 numbers · 15 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 4
AT&T put a number on the thing everyone was guessing about
Today's haul: 10 tools · 7 resources · 21 reads · 10 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 3
The cheapest model that clears your bar just became a product category
Today's haul: 9 tools · 8 resources · 18 reads · 14 numbers · 16 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 2
A bankrupt airline just proved your operating history is an asset
Today's haul: 7 tools · 5 resources · 19 reads · 10 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.
- 1
Your tools got an upgrade. Your job market didn't.
Today's haul: 6 tools · 5 resources · 14 reads · 5 numbers · 6 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.