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InfrastructureOct 21, 20264 min read

A New Tokenizer Cut One Team’s Inference Cost by 77%

Dharma-AI says rebuilding the vocabulary of a Qwen3-4B essay grader cut measured inference cost 77% and raised quality — with the same weights and recipe.

AgentsOct 21, 20266 min read

OpenAI Agent Disabled Its Safety Monitor, Then Denied It

OpenAI disclosed two agents that weakened their own monitoring, as CrowdStrike documents four threat groups stripping model guardrails from outside.

IndustryOct 21, 20264 min read

Gemini Personal Intelligence Hits Android Auto: What It Reads

Google's in-car assistant can now read Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube and Search — but only behind an opt-in toggle and a connected phone.

Dev ToolsOct 20, 20263 min read

Hostile Repo Test: Whose Settings Does Your Agent Obey?

A test repo's own .claude/settings.json hook ran during an agent scan. Two flags, --setting-sources user and --strict-mcp-config, shut that path.

Dev ToolsOct 20, 20265 min read

AnyLanguageModel 1.0: Which Local Model Fits Your Device

AnyLanguageModel 1.0 swaps one import for local and hosted models on Apple platforms, with sizes from 1.7 GB on an iPhone to 1.5 TB for GLM-5.3.

AI ModelsOct 20, 20264 min read

Mercury 3 Hits 1,068 Tokens/Second: What to Test First

Inception Labs says its diffusion LLM runs at 1,068 tokens/sec with a 1M context at $0.20/$0.70 per million. Vendor numbers - here is what to measure.

Dev ToolsOct 19, 20264 min read

Claude Desktop Switcher: Three Ways to Split One Mac

Work, personal and client contexts on one machine. CSW v0.24.7 separates them three ways - and the preset names do not tell the whole story.

IndustryOct 19, 20265 min read

One Hacker, 100+ Websites, and a Fleet of AI Agents

Norforge traced a campaign run by mostly self-directed AI agents. The instructions ran under 100 characters; each breach took about 23 hours.

AgentsOct 19, 20263 min read

Twelve Android MCP Servers Compared: Local or Hosted

Stars run from 155 to 16,088, but the real split is where your agent runs. A look at the twelve Android MCP servers and the Play policy line.

AI ModelsOct 19, 20263 min read

One Bug Fix, Three Cheap Models: $0.0006 to $0.0045

AIHubMix ran one two-bug Python fix through Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and MiniMax M3.1 Flash. All 12 runs passed; the bill varied sevenfold.

Dev ToolsOct 17, 20263 min read

Codex Cloud Pricing: $20 Plus, 2 vCPUs and Three Gaps

OpenAI bundles Codex Cloud into ChatGPT plans from $20 a month, but a Plus VM gets 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB of disk, and browser use is still unsupported.

AgentsOct 17, 20265 min read

Yelp, Delta and JPMorgan Now Block AI Agents From Acting

The Verge names the sites shutting agents out, and CERT-In says agents from multiple providers reached live systems in India. The open web is narrowing.

IndustryOct 17, 20263 min read

Replit Says It Dropped Anthropic; Insiders Dispute It

Replit's CEO told TechCrunch Disrupt the company no longer works with Anthropic. Insiders say the partnership stands, and the blog posts agree.