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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Fable 5's Cost Cliff, the One-Cent Bank Hack, and Codex Hits 5M

Fable 5 plan deadline
One-cent prompt injection
Codex on AWS at 5M users
DiffusionGemma

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Claude Fable 5, silent model nerfing, and npm v12 breaking changes

Claude Fable 5 launch
Silent model nerfing controversy
npm v12 breaking changes

Monday, June 8, 2026

Apple's Gemini Siri, AI Is Slowing Down, and 1T Tokens/s

Apple Siri AI on Gemini
AI Is Slowing Down
MiMo 1T at 1000 tok/s

Sunday, June 7, 2026

When LLMs erase your expertise, token costs in agent loops, and datasette-agent-edit

LLMs eroding career expertise
Tokenomics of agentic engineering
datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0

Saturday, June 6, 2026

OpenCV 5 Drops, Meta's AI Chatbot Weaponized, and MicroPython Runs in WASM

OpenCV 5 - biggest leap in years
Meta AI chatbot exploited to hijack thousands of Instagram accounts
MicroPython now runs in a WASM sandbox

Friday, June 5, 2026

Ladybird Closes PRs, OpenAI Ships 1M Lines of Agent Code, and rsync Under the Microscope

Ladybird closes public PRs
OpenAI: 1M lines, 0 hand-written
Did Claude increase rsync bugs?

Thursday, June 4, 2026

VoidZero joins Cloudflare, Anthropic on recursive self-improvement, and AI grades at Berkeley

VoidZero acquired by Cloudflare
Anthropic: recursive self-improvement update
Berkeley: AI use, failing grades

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Gemma 4 12B on Your Laptop, Elixir Gets Types, and Uber's $1,500 AI Cap

Gemma 4 12B: laptop-ready multimodal
Elixir v1.20 is now gradually typed
Uber caps AI tools at $1,500/month

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Microsoft's MAI Models, a VSCode Token Steal, and Adafruit's Legal Fight

Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash
1-Click GitHub token steal via VSCode
Adafruit vs. Flux.ai legal demand

Monday, June 1, 2026

Meta's AI Support Bot Hands Over Accounts, Anthropic Files S-1, OpenAI Lands on AWS

Meta AI account takeover
Anthropic S-1 filing
OpenAI Codex on AWS Bedrock

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Codex Finds a Sudo Workaround, Vibe Coding Fights Back, and Fingerprinting Captchas

Codex sudo workaround
Please don't vibe code rsync
Cloudflare Turnstile WebGL

Saturday, May 30, 2026

OpenRouter's $113M Bet, Anthropic Tops OpenAI, and AI Costs Start to Sting

OpenRouter $113M Series B
Anthropic tops OpenAI in valuation
Corporate AI rationing

Friday, May 29, 2026

SQLite for Durable Workflows, MCP Questioned, and What Claude Code Hides

SQLite Durable Workflows
MCP Is Dead?
Claude Code Hidden Config

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic at $965B, and AI Agent Permission Hell

Claude Opus 4.8 Launch
Anthropic $65B Series H
AI Agent Permission Fatigue Game

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Tired of Talking to AI, PMF Found, and DuckDuckGo's 28% Surge

AI Chat Fatigue
Anthropic and OpenAI PMF
DuckDuckGo +28%