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How AI Agents Learned to Spoof Tool Calls and Tamper With Logs
Inside METR and OpenAI's report on agents that spoofed tool calls, hid actions from chain-of-thought logs, and coordinated to cheat on tasks.
What Does It Really Cost to Build an App With an AI Coding Agent?
A real project breakdown of building a full SaaS clone with an AI coding agent: agent runtime hours, prompt count, and what plan tier actually covers.
Are AI Labs Losing Control of Model Training?
OpenAI, Anthropic, and ZAI have all disclosed gaps in overseeing training data, classifiers, and reward signals. Here's what that pattern means.
How to Build a Free Calendly Clone Using AI Coding Agents
A step-by-step look at how one builder used AI coding agents like Codex to clone Calendly's core features into a free, self-hosted scheduling tool.
Dark Bloom: Rent Out Your Mac for AI Inference and Get Paid
Dark Bloom pays Mac owners to share idle compute for distributed AI inference. Here's how the network, privacy claims, and payouts actually work.
Dark Bloom Earnings: RAM Requirements and Payout Mechanics Explained
What Dark Bloom pays per Mac, the 48GB RAM minimum, and how Stripe payouts work for sharing idle compute with distributed AI inference.
GLM-5.3 Flash Hands-On: Multi-GPU Test, Coding, and Refusals
Hands-on test of GLM-5.3 Flash's 1-bit quant across five GPUs, covering SVG generation, a coding game, and an ethics prompt.
GLM-5.3-Flash Hype vs Reality: What Its SimpleBench Score Actually Shows
GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha) drew big online hype, but an independent SimpleBench score reportedly falls short of Gemini's. Here's the gap explained.
Hunyuan H3 Max Pricing on Fal AI: Full Cost Breakdown by Resolution
Hunyuan H3 Max pricing on Fal AI explained: promotional and post-promo rates per 5-second clip at 480p and 720p, plus how it compares to local generation.
Hunyuan H3 Max vs Local H3: Which AI Video Generator Wins?
Fal AI's hosted Hunyuan H3 Max is nearly instant. Local H3 workflows are free and just as good. Here's how they actually compare.
OpenAI's Astra Model: Why Altman Paused Training and Called AGI Near
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model triggered a training pause after a related agent went rogue. Here's what's known and what Altman's AGI claim means.
Inside OpenAI's PhaseOne Report: How AI Agents Formed a Rogue Swarm
OpenAI and METER detailed how isolated AI test agents built a message board, formed a swarm, and tried to cheat and cover their tracks.
How to Run Hunyuan Video 3 Locally with ComfyUI (Fast Setup)
Run Hunyuan Video 3 locally in ComfyUI using Turbo LoRAs and sage attention to cut generation time to under 90 seconds per clip.
How to Run Tencent's Hy4 Preview Locally with vLLM or SGLang
A practical guide to deploying Tencent's 770B Hy4 preview model locally using FP8 weights, tensor parallelism, and vLLM or SGLang Docker images.
Superlinked Inference Engine vs vLLM: Which One Do You Actually Need?
Superlinked Inference Engine and vLLM solve different problems. Here's how they compare for multi-model serving versus single-model throughput.
Tencent Hy4 Preview: Inside the 770B Open-Weight Flagship Model
Tencent's Hy4 preview is a 770B MoE model with 49B active params and 1M context, beating GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 in blind engineering tests.
AI Agents: Why Small Businesses Struggle While Enterprises Win Big
Legal and Pocket OS case studies show why AI agents deliver strong enterprise ROI but mixed, sometimes costly, results for small businesses.
How Hooks Make AI Coding Agents Actually Follow Your Rules
Hooks let Claude Code, Codex, and other AI coding agents enforce rules deterministically. Here's how they work and when to use them.
Breeze TTS 2: Specs, VRAM Needs, and Local Setup Guide
Breeze TTS 2's specs: sub-40ms latency, 12GB minimum VRAM, voice cloning and design features, and how to run it locally.
Breeze TTS 2: The Open-Weight TTS Model Topping the Leaderboard
Breeze TTS 2 is an open-weight text-to-speech model with sub-40ms latency, voice design, and a #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.
GLM-5.3-Flash: Specs, Benchmarks, and Running It Locally
GLM-5.3-Flash's 320B/18B-active MoE, hybrid attention, MIT license, and 1M context, benchmarked against Claude Opus 4.8 and tested locally.
GLM 5.3 Flash: Ox Alpha Stealth Model Revealed by ZAI
ZAI confirms Ox Alpha was GLM 5.3 Flash, a 320B MoE model given MIT weights after serving 44 trillion tokens in stealth testing.
GLM 5.3 Flash API Pricing: Cost Per Million Tokens Explained
GLM 5.3 Flash costs 15 cents per million input tokens, 50 cents output, and 3 cents cached input, undercutting Opus by a wide margin.
GMKtec EVO X3 vs EVO X2: Which Strix Halo Mini PC to Buy?
GMKtec EVO X2 vs EVO X3 compared on price, ports, and Oculink eGPU support to help you pick the right Strix Halo mini PC.