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AnthropicAlexAnthropic is building its own chips for Claude
At first, the company will design them for internal use to speed up its models and rely less on scarce compute. Over time, this could grow into a…
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OpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexDear Codex gamblers, I made a tiny unofficial macOS hack that makes Codex show half your remaining percentage
Your real limit stays the same. Only the dopamine interface gets recalibrated, so your brain may finally discover life outside coding.
Tue 4 Aug
Mon 3 Aug
Leaks
GoogleAlex
GoogleAlexGemini 3.5 Pro could launch on August 12
Polymarket is already giving it a 90% chance of launching by August 14. With Google unveiling the Pixel 11 on August 12, it seems reasonable to…
Releases
AlibabaAlex
AlibabaAlexAlibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max
The new 2.4T parameter flagship benchmarks in the same league as GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5. API pricing is $2/M input and $6/M…
Sat 1 Aug
ReleasesOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexOpenAI announced a new frontier model — Astra
In internal tests, Astra made ten major breakthroughs in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Among them are a disproof of Connes rigidity…
Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexCODEX LIMITS RESET
Tools & updatesGoogleAlex
GoogleAlexGoogle AI Studio is becoming part of Gemini
Looks like Google is turning Gemini into a super app, following the ChatGPT Codex playbook. If so, bringing Antigravity into Gemini feels like the…
Fri 31 Jul
Tools & updates
ByteDanceAlex
ByteDanceAlexSeedance 2.5 is AGI for video
Tests & comparisons
DeepSeekAlex
DeepSeekAlexYesterday GPT 5.6 Luna pushed the Pareto frontier for intelligence and cost
Today DeepSeek V4 Flash did it again and pushed it even further.
ReleasesByteDanceAlex
ByteDanceAlexByteDance just dropped Seedance 2.5
It can generate a complete video with audio up to 30 seconds long in a single run. You can feed it up to 30 images, 10 videos, and 10 audio files as…
ReleasesDeepSeekAlex
DeepSeekAlexDeepSeek just dropped V4 Flash
It scores 54.4% on DeepSWE and 82.7% on TerminalBench 2.1, beating GLM 5.2 and V4 Pro while coming insanely close to Opus 4.8. Pricing starts at…
LeaksGoogleAlex
GoogleAlexGemini 3.5 Pro spotted on Arena
Thu 30 Jul
Tests & comparisonsOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexUsing GPT 5.6 Luna Max, you get the power of March’s flagship GPT 5.4 xhigh for one thirteenth of its price
Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexOpenAI just slashed GPT 5.6 prices
Luna is now 80% cheaper, while Terra dropped 20%. The cuts also apply to subscriptions, with both models now using less of your quota. Luna is now…
LeaksOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexGPT 5.6 Sol Ultrafast drops tomorrow
The model will run on Cerebras chips and generate up to 750 tokens per second. It has already appeared on OpenRouter under the codename Ra, named…
Tools & updatesSatyressAlex
AlexCalifornia startup Satyress unveiled a 2 meter tall centaur-robot designed for rescue work at disaster sites
Tools & updatesOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexOpenAI will unveil an AI speaker by the end of the year
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman confirmed that the company is developing an entire family of devices. The first product will reportedly be a portable…
Wed 29 Jul
Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex
AnthropicAlexJetBrains MythBusters tested the Ponytail skill for Claude Code
Before that, they analyzed Caveman. Its promised 65% token savings turned into 8.5%, with no cost reduction. Then came RTK, claiming up to 90%…
NotesOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexChatGPT has hit ≈1 billion weekly active users
Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexOPENAI RESET CODEX LIMITS
• GPT-5.6 Sol now drains your limits 18% slower. • The five-hour limit returns tomorrow.
Tests & comparisonsHugging FaceAlex
AlexHOW AN AI AGENT HACKED HUGGING FACE
1. Sandbox escape and external foothold During a cyber capabilities test, the AI agent found a previously unknown vulnerability in a package…
Tue 28 Jul
LeaksOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexLEAK: Two new OpenAI models, Zinc and Magnesium, appeared in DesignArena
Likely GPT 5.6 Sol and Terra upgrades built to take on Claude Opus 5.
Tools & updates
xAIAlex
xAIAlexGrok just launched an app builder
Describe an idea, and Grok will write the code, build the app, and publish it on its own domain so you can share the result right away. Basically…
Tools & updatesAnthropicAlex
AnthropicAlexI thought this was a joke
Claude Opus 5 built an entire game in 24 hours. It has no third-party game assets: the world, objects, and sound are all generated with code.…
Tests & comparisonsAnthropicAlex
AnthropicAlexClaude Opus 5 has taken the #1 spot in the Frontend Arena
The previous leader was Kimi K3.
NotesAnthropicAlex
AnthropicAlexAnthropic CEO responds to advocates of open-weight models
• He named China’s technological rise as the primary threat. • Access to advanced chips could give authoritarian regimes an edge in warfare…
Prices & limitsOpenAIAlex
OpenAIAlexCODEX RESET THE LIMITS
Mon 27 Jul
Notes
NVIDIAAlex
NVIDIAAlexJensen Huang is betting on Ilya Sutskever
Nvidia has invested in Sutskever’s new company, Safe Superintelligence, and will give the team access to its next-generation Vera Rubin AI systems.…