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Past issues
- 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.