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What I’m reading, building, and thinking about in AI and development.
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September 16, 2026
Today Mistral and Mozilla announced something that actually moves the needle for builders like me: Firefox Smart Window (beta) is now powered by Mistral models for users in France and North America, with the UK and Germa...
Last week I wrote about DeepSeek V4.1 Flash like a calendar threat: new architecture, retire the old Flash IDs into the new one, and — the part that made builde...
Andon Labs: Astra crushed Fable on Vending-Bench ($15,515 vs $5,422) and beat all five Drone-Bench tasks at peak — but end-to-end success is ~2.8%. Reliability ...
OpenAI just hit the brakes on new $200 ChatGPT Pro (Pro 20X) sign-ups and upgrades. Not because Astra flopped — because demand for GPT-6 Astra is chewing throug...
DeepSeek dropped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash today, and the version number is doing dishonest work. Reuters flagged the launch this morning; the model card calls it the...
Yesterday morning, OpenAI said a swarm of roughly 10,000 autonomous AI agents — running on an internal model the public still can’t touch — found a singul...