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Polaris and Vega: Mystery AI Video Models Spark Meta Speculation
Two unnamed AI video models, Polaris and Vega, surfaced on Artificial Analysis. Here's what their outputs suggest and who might be behind them.
Obsidian Skills: Giving AI Agents Access to Your Markdown Notes
Obsidian Skills lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex read and use your Obsidian markdown notes as a searchable knowledge base.
Qwen3.8-27B Ridge Quant: Run the Full Model on 12GB VRAM
Ridge quantization shrinks Qwen3.8-27B from 50GB to 11.7GB by protecting sensitive GatedDeltaNet layers. Here's how it works and performs.
What a Full-Stack App Actually Costs to Build With Remy
A real cost breakdown: what Remy charges in AI tokens to build a full-stack app, compared to a contractor's day rate and a SaaS subscription.
Why Agencies Keep Building Client Dashboards for Free
Agencies build client dashboards on billable hours, then own nothing. Here's how a spec-driven AI app builder turns that work into a resellable asset.
The AI App Builder IT Can Actually Bless (Without Regretting It)
IT teams don't have to choose between blocking shadow IT and owning the risk. Here's what to check before approving an AI app builder.
Spec-Driven Development: Why Non-Engineers Should Care
Non-engineers can now write the plan an AI turns into a real app. Here's what spec-driven development means for business teams.
What Is Stills Lab? A Free Film-Still Database for AI Prompting
Stills Lab is a free film-still database with color palettes, lens data, and visual search, built to help AI filmmakers write better prompts.
What Is Unsloth? Local LLM Fine-Tuning and Inference Explained
Unsloth is a free, open-source tool for fine-tuning and running open LLMs locally with a point-and-click, ChatGPT-like agent UI.
Why Cursor and Claude Code Struggle to Build a Whole Internal Tool
Coding agents edit code you already have. Building an internal tool from scratch is a different job — here's why it needs a different agent.
Is AI Actually Taking Jobs? What the Hiring Data Really Shows
Hiring data on AI-exposed young workers and startup founder surveys show a slower job market, not mass layoffs. Here's what's really happening.
Five Airtable Alternatives for When the Base Becomes an App
Airtable is a strong database that gets expensive as an app — $45 per editor a month on Business. Five alternatives, including one you own outright.
What Computer Should You Buy for Local AI in 2026?
A practical framework for matching hardware to local AI models, based on VRAM, quantization, and real benchmark testing across Macs, PCs, and mini boxes.
Building a Hardware Recommendation App With Replit's AI Agent
How one developer used Replit's AI agent to plan, build, test, and publish a local AI hardware recommendation web app without hand coding.
How to Set Up Claude.md and Context Files for Your Business
A practical guide to building Claude.md and context files for brand voice, visual identity, and business facts so outputs actually sound like you.
How to Automate Business Workflows with Claude Scheduled Tasks
Learn how to turn Claude from a chat tool into supervised, cloud-run automation for invoice reconciliation, reporting, and recurring business work.
What Are Claude Skills? How They Work and How to Build Them
Claude Skills explained: how progressive disclosure works, why the skill recorder beats manual writing, and how to build reusable skills fast.
Hermes Agent + Local Qwen: A No-Token-Cost AI Agent Stack
How to configure Hermes agent's memory, sub-agents, and provider routing against a locally hosted Qwen model for a zero-token-cost AI agent setup.
How to Install LTX-2.5 in ComfyUI: Setup, VRAM Needs, Real Results
A grounded guide to installing LTX-2.5 in ComfyUI, covering custom nodes, model downloads, VRAM requirements, and honest first-generation quality.
Qwen3.8-27B AEON Uncensored: How This Abliteration Actually Works
A community abliteration of Qwen3.8-27B explains its KL-drift methodology, judge-based refusal testing, and how to run the model via vLLM.
Qwen3.8-9B: Running the Community-Distilled Model Locally
A team distilled Qwen 3.8's reasoning into a 9B model. Here's how it works, what VRAM it needs, and how it holds up in an agentic coding test.
What Happens When AI Agents Compete for Real-World Resources?
Real incidents show AI agents hacking gym waitlists and coordinating undetected to breach systems, revealing risks beyond controlled lab tests.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Benchmarks: How It Stacks Up Against Opus and Kimi K3
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 benchmark scores across Terminal Bench, HLE, and Cybergym, compared against GLM-5.2, Kimi K3, Opus-4.8, and Fable-5.
Grok's Safety Controversies: Deepfakes, Regulators, and Financial Risk
Grok's deepfake scandal, international regulatory probes, and a whistleblower lawsuit show how AI safety failures now carry real financial and legal risk.