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OpenAI Pulled Three Models in a Week. The Real Story Is the Pricing Sheet.
Two deprecation notices and a quiet edit to the API docs. The model lineup is being rebuilt and the cheap tier is gone.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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The AI Self-Replication Story Is Real. The Framing Isn't.
Palisade's paper is genuinely interesting research. The press release wrapped around it is doing something else entirely — and that's the part worth paying attention to.
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Cursor Isn't Winning the Model War. It's Winning the Surface.
Everyone's still benchmarking coding models. Cursor figured out the benchmark doesn't matter — the editor is the product, and the editor is the moat.
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Cursor's $9 Billion Valuation Is a Bet on One Hard Thing
Anysphere's editor doesn't win on the model. It wins on a UX assumption everyone else got wrong.
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It remembers what you watched. It remembers what you skipped. It remembers what time of day you cried, which is not a sentence I expected to write.
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The MacBook Air M5 Is the One You Buy. Here's Why.
Three weeks of daily driving, an external monitor it didn't deserve, and one thermal test that surprised me.
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The Pixel 10 Is Google's Best Phone in Years and Almost Nobody Will Buy It
The hardware finally caught up. The software is the best Android has ever been. The marketing is, somehow, still terrible.
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