Google has acquired the data of failed The Register airline Spirit
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
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AI models
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output tokens. Higher uptime with…
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
Rickmanelius is about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and Rickmanelius is not alone).…
Anthropic’s ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within…
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Claude: System Prompts
See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai), the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios), and the [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).
AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Today Google is excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to Google’s Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler…
Qwen 3.8 27B
Image-Text-to-Text model with 28B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.
Mistral OCR 4.1
Docs’ latest OCR service powering Docs’ Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is a large-scale mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek. $0.0999 per million input tokens, $8 per million output tokens.
Qwen3.8-2.4T
Text Generation model with 2.4T parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.