A Quiet Policy That Got Very Loud When you send a prompt to an API, you probably assume the provider is just routing tokens and counting them. That’s mostly true. But what if they were also scanning your requests — specifically looking for evidence that you’re using a competing AI framework — and then billing … Read more
A Frontier-Level Model That Anyone Can Run DeepSeek V4 is the latest open-weight large language model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI research lab that’s been consistently surprising the industry with models that punch well above their weight. The short version: DeepSeek V4 performs at the level of the best closed frontier models — think GPT-4o … Read more
The Three Eras of Programming, Explained Software development is undergoing one of the most significant shifts in its history — and most people building software today are operating across all three eras simultaneously without realizing it. Understanding Software 1.0, Software 2.0, and Software 3.0 isn’t just an academic exercise. It changes how you think about … Read more
xAI Is Moving Fast — Here’s Why That Matters Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has made no secret of its ambitions. With Grok 3 already benchmarking competitively against GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Grok 5 reportedly in active development, xAI is executing one of the most aggressive model scaling strategies in the industry. The … Read more
Connect Your AI Coding Agents to Gmail, Drive, and Calendar If you’ve been using Claude Code or OpenAI Codex to write and run code, you’ve probably hit the same wall: the agents are good at reasoning and writing, but they’re isolated from the tools your work actually lives in. They can’t check your inbox, create … Read more
Why Running AI Models Locally Actually Makes Sense Running AI models locally used to mean expensive GPU clusters and a PhD in systems engineering. That’s no longer true. Tools like Ollama have made it genuinely straightforward to run open-weight models on your own hardware — no cloud subscription, no data leaving your machine, no rate … Read more
The Core Question Most Teams Get Wrong When organizations start scaling AI, they usually pick a side: either everything runs through OpenAI’s API, or someone on the IT team champions running models locally “for privacy reasons.” Both instincts make sense in isolation. Neither is a complete strategy. The local AI vs cloud AI decision isn’t … Read more
Summary Linux 7.1-rc2 adds DMI quirk to restore Steam Deck OLED audio probe issue since 2023. The problem only affected the OLED model; the LCD Steam Deck was not affected. Quirk limits the fix to OLEDs so other devices aren’t broken; tests expected soon. If you’ve owned a Steam Deck OLED for a few years, … Read more
Summary Ask.com (Ask Jeeves) closed on May 1, 2026, as IAC exits the search business. Launched in 1997 with a butler speaking simple English, it was renamed “Ask” in 2006 but lost out to Google. We’re a little surprised it wasn’t closed sooner. In the tech industry, sometimes you have a weird moment where you … Read more
Although a fan of the Raspberry Pi as a teenager, I am starting to be disappointed by this family of single-board computers. After all, rival boards, especially those based on the x86 architecture, have become significantly cheaper over the years, while prices for mainstream RPi SBCs have skyrocketed without offering any tangible benefits in DIY … Read more