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Rio de Janeiro's "Homegrown" AI Model Caught Red-Handed as a Rebranded Copy-Paste Job
The AI world erupted today. IplanRIO, the IT division of Rio de Janeiro's municipal government, open-sourced the Rio 3.5 Open 397B AI model, billing it as a breakthrough moment for Brazil and the Glob
Architecting the Autonomous: Engineering the Loops That Drive AI Agents
The shift from prompting AI like Claude. Boris Cherny highlights this evolution, where developers manage continuous cycles that direct AI agents, focusing on architecture and to building automated loops marks a transition in software engineering toward intent-centric development.
The Economics of Token Exhaustion: Why Flat-Rate AI Subscriptions Collapsed
Subscriptions are so 2025 right, well... Trends seem to agree.
The 30-Day Head Start: Trump’s Frontier AI Executive Order
President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump has pulled a rather "radical" moves towards AI, and this week has been no different.
AI Samples, the inevitable doom of AI: AI Companies’ Relentless Hunt for Training Samples, the Privacy Minefield, and the Looming Shadow of Contamination
AI Samples - Ouroboros of AI model training.
AI Agent Failures: Why the Grand Autonomy Experiment Is Failing
AI agents handed unchecked spending authority caused €2.3M in fraud and $1.8B in refund abuse. Why the grand autonomy experiment failed — and the fix.
Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Incremental Upgrade or Hype Cycle Break?
Claude Opus 4.8 review: modest benchmark gains but limited real-world improvement over its predecessor. Is it a genuine upgrade or just another hype cycle?
Vibe Coding Gets Harder as Your Project Grows. Not Because the AI Is Dumb, but Because It Doesn't Understand Your Codebase
Vibe coding feels like magic early on, but as your project grows you spend more prompts giving the AI context than building. Here's why — and the fix.
China’s AI Reckoning: Efficiency, Domestic Chips & Impact
China is rewriting the economics of AI with high-performing models at a fraction of Western prices, accelerating domestic chip breakthroughs that blunt U.S. sanctions, and embedding intelligence across industry at astonishing speed
Why Closed Communities Need Drawing Games
Drawing games turn passive readers into active creators, pulling quieter members into a closed community in ways text threads never can. Here's how.