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- 11 min readThe Price War Reached the FrontierThe price war reached the frontier / MiMo v2.6 / GPT-6 Astra's week / Claude's 950-agent run found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in raw DNA / Agents escalated past access controls / Claude Code silently skips AGENTS.md when telemetry is off / Linear's CI rework
- 11 min readCheaper Tokens, Higher StakesClaude Code Auto Mode cracked / The open-weights price collapse / The market voted for cheap / Nvidia's reported $13B Hugging Face talks / Jalapeño beats Blackwell on tokens per megawatt / Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra / A 17GB local model reverse-engineered a commercial license check in 30 minutes
- 11 min readCheaper Agents, Harder QuestionsAuto mode becomes the default in Claude Code / Gemini 3.7 Flash / DeepSeek open-sources its agent harness / Open weights grew up / Your encrypted chain-of-thought is replayable / Ruby 4.0 / SQLite's 16-year-old WAL data race
- 11 min readAgents Became the Attack Surface, Open Weights Took the Agentic LeadShai-Hulud / The accidental-cyberattack week / Qwen 3.8 Max / Databricks / DeepSeek V4 Flash / AMD buys Taalas / Humans miss 1 in 3 threats
- 12 min readFrontier AI Commoditized - Half-Price Opus 5, 3T Open Weights, and Agent Security Gets RealClaude Opus 5 / OpenAI model autonomously hacks Hugging Face / Kimi K3 2.8T open weights land / MCP kills sessions, goes stateless / TurboFieldfare runs Gemma 4 26B on any Mac with 2 GB of RAM / Copilot for Word self-replicating worm / Anthropic stakes open-weights policy
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