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GPT-6.1 Terra Explained: OpenAI's $1 Model That Claims to Match Its Flagship

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AWS Trainium Model Support: Hugging Face's New Lookup Shows Which Hub Models Run on Trainium2

Hugging Face's AWS Trainium model support tracker shows which popular Hub models run unmodified on Trainium2, with cores, memory and time for each test run.

24 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Granite Speech 5.0 Explained: IBM's Free Speech-to-Text Models, What They Do and Who Can Use Them

Granite Speech 5.0 is IBM's free, open speech model: transcription in six languages, fast on-device recognition and better meeting notes. What it does, and lacks.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Phonon TTS Explained: Gradium's Free Voice Model Runs on a Phone, a Laptop or a Raspberry Pi

Phonon TTS is a free text-to-speech model from Paris startup Gradium that runs offline on phones, laptops and a Raspberry Pi. What it does and how to try it.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Agentic AI Foundation Adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox: What Each One Does for Builders

The Agentic AI Foundation takes in four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba. Here is what each does and why it matters if you build agents.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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OpenAI Decisions API Explained: Fast Yes-or-No AI Calls at $0.10 per Million Tokens

The OpenAI Decisions API is now open to all developers. It answers bounded questions up to 10x faster than GPT-6 Luna and charges nothing for output tokens.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Canva Craft Explained: What Canva's First Image Model Does, Where to Find It and What It Means for Designers

Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image model: 2K images, 30 aspect ratios, readable text and layered edits, free in Dream Lab and via the Canva API.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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1Password for Agents Explained: How AI Assistants Can Log In Without Ever Seeing Your Password

1Password for Agents lets Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, Muse and Grok Bot sign in for you after you approve, with the password never shown to the AI agent.

23 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Nirva AI Pendant: The $249 Wearable That Only Listens to Its Owner, and What It Does With Your Voice

The Nirva AI pendant records only its wearer's voice and turns it into insights. Price, battery, privacy defaults and the $33m behind it, explained.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Recursive Flint: The Free Coding Model That Runs on a Laptop, and Was Mostly Built by AI

Recursive Flint is a free, Apache 2.0 coding model that runs offline on a laptop. What it does, how fast it is, its limits, and what it means for developers.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Claude Duet Explained: Anthropic's Background AI Agent, What It Does and Who Can Use It

Claude Duet is Anthropic's new background AI agent that watches your apps and does tasks while you're away. What it does, its limits, and who can get it now.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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ChatGPT Locked Chats Explained: How the PIN Lock Works and What It Won't Protect

ChatGPT locked chats hide conversations behind a PIN or Face ID. Here is how to turn them on, what they do not protect, and why a forgotten PIN wipes them.

21 Oct 2026 5 min read

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launches at $0.15 per Million Input Tokens, Built for Agents and Code

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is out on the MiniMax API at $0.15 per million input tokens and 200+ tokens a second. Here is what it does, what it costs and how it compares.

20 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Meta Muse Gave a Seller's Home Address to a Marketplace Buyer. Here Is What "Always Allow" Really Allows

Meta Muse gave a Toronto seller's home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer after an 'always allow' setup choice. Here is what to check before you delegate.

20 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Mercury 3 Launches: Inception's Diffusion Model Hits 1,000+ Tokens per Second at $0.20 per Million

Mercury 3 from Inception Labs is a diffusion language model that writes over 1,000 tokens per second, with a 1M-token context and prices from $0.20 per million.

20 Oct 2026 5 min read

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