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New York's mayor calls on residents to resist AI's supposed inevitability — techcrunch.com
Nscale and Anthropic reportedly near another $45 billion compute deal — techcrunch.com
Miles Plug Offers Car Tracking With a Privacy Pitch — theverge.com
AI benchmarking lacks the consistency to be trusted, Hugging Face's policy chief warns — techcrunch.com
Musk's SpaceX shares for children will flow into "Trump Accounts," according to The Verge — theverge.com
New York's mayor calls on residents to resist AI's supposed inevitability — techcrunch.com
Nscale and Anthropic reportedly near another $45 billion compute deal — techcrunch.com
Miles Plug Offers Car Tracking With a Privacy Pitch — theverge.com
AI benchmarking lacks the consistency to be trusted, Hugging Face's policy chief warns — techcrunch.com
Musk's SpaceX shares for children will flow into "Trump Accounts," according to The Verge — theverge.com

Research & Papers

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Halcyon: text-to-image generation without language pretraining

Tools & Startups

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Laminar (YC S24) launches RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces

Free Models

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Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

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