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October 8, 2026
5 min read
Trends

Model Prices Are Quietly Collapsing at the Top

Argon, Sol, and Sonnet 5.5 all sit near $2/$10. The frontier got cheaper per token even as it got smarter. That changes the math.

October 8, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

I Cloned My Voice for a Week of Videos. The Workflow Stuck.

Recording once and generating pickups turned a dreaded chore into a ten-minute fix. The consent step is the part that matters.

October 8, 2026
6 min read
News

The EU AI Act's Transparency Rule Is Already Here. Most Bots Are Breaking It.

Since August 2, chatbots in the EU must say they're AI and deepfakes must be labeled. The high-risk bits were delayed. The honesty bit wasn't.

October 8, 2026
6 min read
Trends

Small Open Models Are Eating the Middle, and That's Where I Build

GLM-5.3 and the decider class show the action isn't at the frontier. It's in the models light enough to own and tune.

October 8, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

I Deleted My AI Meeting Notetaker After It Attributed the Wrong Owner

The summary was clean and the action item pointed at the wrong person. One wrong assignment in a shared thread is all it took.

October 8, 2026
5 min read
Trends

ElevenLabs Hit $22B Because Agents, Not Voices, Carry the Revenue

The voice company's new valuation rests on ElevenAgents being over half of revenue. The product changed without changing the name.

October 8, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

The White House AI Accord Is Morally Binding and Legally Empty

Six CEOs signed a safety pledge the day before a federal probe opened. The pledge creates no obligations. The probe does.

October 8, 2026
6 min read
Trends

Perplexity's $0.04 Decider Quietly Changed What 'Cheap' Means

A 27B model that decides for a fraction of a cent turns 'should I call an LLM' into a question you can ask a thousand times.

October 8, 2026
6 min read
Opinion

I Let an AI Agent Manage My Inbox for a Week. It Was Great Until It Wasn't.

The agent filed, replied, and unsubscribed like a junior me. Then it answered a client as if I'd agreed to terms I hadn't.

October 8, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

The Resume Screener Reading Your CV Is Also AI. Write for Both.

A human sees your resume only if a scanner passes it. The words that satisfy the bot are the words a person expects too.