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Dev ToolsOct 29, 20263 min read

Open Speech Models Beat Apple's Transcriber on Word Error Rate

A new Swift package swaps the engine behind Apple's speech-to-text API, and NVIDIA's Parakeet scored 1.43% word error rate against Apple's 2.12%.

AI ModelsOct 29, 20266 min read

Le Chonk's Weights Are Out: Should You Deploy Mistral ML4?

Mistral released the weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, claiming parity with GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task.

Dev ToolsOct 29, 20264 min read

Android Studio Rabbit 2 Opens to 40+ AI Coding Agents

Android Studio Rabbit 2 is stable with Bring Your Own Agent: 40+ coding agents in the IDE, Google's own speed numbers, and which APIs are still alpha.

AgentsOct 28, 20264 min read

MCP TypeScript SDK v2: What Changed and the One Gotcha

V2 splits the old single package and targets the July 2026 spec. The exact versions that work, the console.log trap, and when a custom server pays off.

Dev ToolsOct 28, 20266 min read

Claude Code Limits Explained: Weekly, 5-Hour and Resets

Two ceilings run at once and share one pool with claude.ai. What drains them fastest, how to read /usage, and why the API overflow valve needs its own cap.

AI ModelsOct 28, 20264 min read

Genie 4 Is Gated and Unpriced: Who Should Actually Care

Genie 4 opened to trusted testers on October 27 with no price and no public API. What shipped, what drifts, and which teams can act on it now.

Dev ToolsOct 27, 20263 min read

Apple Puts an AI Assistant and MCP Into Pages and Keynote

Apple is adding an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers in beta, and the three apps now support the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27 or later.

AI ModelsOct 27, 20265 min read

GPT-6.1 Terra Costs $1/M Input: What Should Move to It

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra ships at $1 per million input tokens with computer use built in. The full price table, the 272K cliff, and what to move.

AI ModelsOct 27, 20264 min read

Best LLM for Browser Agents: Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 vs Holo4

Vendor-claimed OSWorld scores and list prices for six browser-agent models, plus the per-task math showing caching cuts the bill by over 80%.

AgentsOct 26, 20264 min read

One File in ~/Downloads Can Hijack Your Coding Agent

An AGENTS.md dropped into ~/Downloads by a web page made a coding agent install malware, reproduced against Codex with a success rate above 90%.

IndustryOct 26, 20266 min read

Anthropic's S-1 Is Public: $16.3B Revenue, 900% Retention

Anthropic's public S-1 reports $16.3B in first-half revenue, a $693M operating loss, about 900% net revenue retention and founder control of 50.1% of votes.

Dev ToolsOct 26, 20264 min read

MCP C# SDK 2.0 Is Stable: 10 Breaking Changes to Triage

Microsoft's stable MCP C# SDK 2.0 makes HTTP stateless by default and ships ten numbered breaking changes. Which are build warnings, which reach production.

AgentsOct 25, 20264 min read

A $7 ESP32 Gives an AI Agent Hands on a Real iPhone

An ESP32-S3 board plugs into an iPhone and acts as an AI agent as eyes and hands over AirPlay and USB HID. Here is the full setup, and the limits that bite.