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Alex Hormozi's AI Strategy: What His Company Actually Does in 2026
Alex Hormozi froze his team's AI budget despite heavy usage. A breakdown of how Acquisition.com uses AI in support, sales, content, and hiring.
Best GPU for Local LLMs: Fitting 30B Models in 16GB or 24GB VRAM
A practical guide to running 30B local AI models on 16GB and 24GB GPUs, comparing RTX 3090, dual 5060 Ti, AMD and Intel cards.
Claude Opus 5.2 Game Demos: What They Actually Cost to Build
A breakdown of Claude Opus 5.2 game and 3D demo prompting techniques, with real API costs ranging from $11 to $103 per project.
Claude Opus 5.2 Pricing: API Costs and How Fast It Burns Your Plan
Claude Opus 5.2 is powerful but costly. Here's what tasks actually cost, how it compares to Opus 5.5, and how to avoid burning your quota.
Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Fable 5.2: Which Coding Model Wins?
A six-app head-to-head testing Gemini 4 Carbon against Claude Fable 5.2 on cost, speed, benchmarks, and real coding output quality.
What Is Gemini Decision 1? Google's Yes/No AI, Tested
Gemini Decision 1 skips text generation for yes/no answers and confidence scores. Here's what it is and where it breaks across five input types.
GPT Image 2.6: OpenAI's New Image Model Adds GIF Generation
OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 brings GIF generation, faster speeds, and two new variants, Sunburst and Flare. Here's what changed and what it costs.
How to Choose Effort Levels for Claude Opus and a Planner Model
A guide to splitting planning and execution between a frontier reasoning model and a cheaper model, with effort-level tips for coding workflows.
How to Run MiniMax H3 Image Locally on Consumer Hardware
MiniMax H3 Image is an open-weight text-to-image model with quantized builds around 18GB. Here's what it takes to run it on your own GPU.
n8n's Nod Agent: A Hands-On Look at the Dots and Grokbot Rival
n8n's free personal AI agent Nod runs locally, connects 225 apps via Composio, and posts a 93.2% memory recall score. Here's how it compares.
Is n8n's Nod Free? Pricing, Setup, and Spending Limits Explained
n8n's Nod personal agent is free software, but you pay your model provider directly. Here's how costs, caps, and access actually work.
Longcat 2.5, Ripple 65B, Inkling Small: This Week's Open-Weight Model Drops
Longcat 2.5, Ripple 65B, and Thinking Machines' Inkling Small landed this week. Here's what each open-weight model offers and who can run them.
RTX 5080 24GB Cancelled: Why Local AI Users Just Lost a Lifeline
The rumored 24GB RTX 5080 reportedly got cancelled over memory costs. Here's why that matters for local AI and what GPUs fill the gap.
Rex: Mitchell Hashimoto's New Terminal Built for AI Coding Agents
Rex is a persistent terminal and multiplexer from Ghostty's creator, built with a CLI and protocol designed for coding agents like Claude Code.
Rex Terminal: Is It Free? Beta Access, Waitlist, and Pricing Explained
How to join the Rex terminal beta, what it costs today, and what's known (and still unknown) about pricing for Mitchell Hashimoto's new app.
Tencent DSpine: Faster Speculative Decoding for Qwen3.8-27B
Tencent's DSpine draft model speeds up Qwen3.8-27B inference up to 3.8x over autoregressive decoding. Here's how it works and how to deploy it.
Tyler Shultz on What It Was Really Like Inside Theranos
Tyler Shultz describes the culture of secrecy and dysfunction at Theranos before he became one of the first whistleblowers to expose the fraud.
Fix AI Coding Agent Problems With Skills, Rules, and Hooks
Practical fixes for AI coding agents that fake completion, skip tests, or ignore rules, using devil's advocate reviews, evidence, and hooks.
AI Labs Are Using AI to Speed Up Research. Here's What METR Found
METR's assessment of Anthropic shows AI-assisted research roughly doubling progress speed, an early sign of recursive self-improvement at AI labs.
Is Anthropic's AI Now Speeding Up Its Own Development?
A look at benchmark data and independent reporting on whether Claude models are accelerating Anthropic's own AI research and training pace.
Arete-27B Benchmark Results: Propaganda Score vs Capability
Arete-27B's fact score climbed from 2.32 to 2.98 and propaganda answers fell to 0.9%, with benchmarks showing no real capability loss.
Arete-27B: Nous Research's Western-Aligned Fine-Tune of Qwen3.8-27B
Nous Research's Arete-27B retrains Qwen3.8-27B to cut CCP-framed answers from 22% to 0.9% while holding capability benchmarks steady.
Binance's Internal AI Tool Became a Hacker's Backdoor. Here's How
How attackers reportedly compromised a Binance engineer's device and used an internal AI tool to pivot toward wallet infrastructure in a major crypto theft.
Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5: KingBench Coding Results Explained
Claude Fable 5.2 scored 70% on KingBench 4 coding tests, beating Opus 5.5's 57.8%. Here's what it built right, and where it broke.