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GitHub Copilot's June 2026 move to usage-based AI Credits changed what Free, Pro, Pro+, Max, and Business actually include, and developers are not happy about how fast the credits disappear.
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Thinking Machines followed its 975B-parameter Inkling model with a 276B open-weight version, Inkling-Small, that beats the original on several benchmarks.
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Dune is a $119 physical keypad that reprograms itself for whatever app is in the foreground, with Claude writing the shortcuts for you. Here's whether the hardware bet is worth it.
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Unit 42 documented a Chinese-speaking hacker who used DeepSeek and the open-source Hermes Agent to autonomously attack 460+ internet-facing systems with almost no human input. Here's what happened and what it means.
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Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 becomes the default voice model on August 5, 2026, with a 60% price increase and faster, more accurate speech-to-speech responses. Here's what changed and how to pin the old version.
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DeepSeek's V4-Flash-0731 scores 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, beating its own Pro-tier model at a fraction of the price. Here's the pricing, the benchmarks, and whether it's worth switching to.
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1Password's new Privileged Access product gives AI agents temporary, scoped identities instead of standing credentials. Here's how it works and who actually needs it.
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Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite with a big Computer Use score bump and a lower effective cost, but no flagship model to go with them.
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Google shipped three Gemini models on the same day. Here's what 3.6 Flash actually costs, what it's good at, and where independent benchmarks say it still trails the competition.
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xAI's Grok 4.5 undercuts Claude Opus 4.8 by 3-4x on price while topping the agentic tool-use benchmarks. Here's what the numbers actually show, and where it falls short.
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Stability AI's SD4 Turbo image model prioritizes speed and cost over polish. Here's what it actually costs and when it beats Midjourney or Recraft.
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BridgeApp's new orchestration layer connects people, tasks, and AI agents in one workspace, aiming to take a ticket to a finished pull request without switching tools.
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