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Mira Murati Isn't Silicon Valley's Strong Woman. She's Its Compute Test.

Mira Murati Isn't Silicon Valley's Strong Woman. She's Its Compute Test.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has Google Cloud, Nvidia, a $2 billion seed round, and one public product. That looks like power. It also looks like a pressure test. The question is whether she can turn founder control, scarce compute, and an elite but leaking team into an institution before OpenAI, Meta, and hyperscalers pull the parts apart. If she cannot, the valley gets its symbol and loses the company.

By Marcus Schuler · 10 min read ·
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar looks at Claude-Mem, Evolver, Voicebox, OpenSRE, and DFlash as open source shifts from agent demos into memory, governance, voice production, incident response, and inference speed.

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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem
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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem

Anthropic's April cutoff for Claude subscriptions in third-party agent tools has made OpenClaw's hidden cost clearer: the software is free, but always-on automation can turn simple jobs into metered loops with context, tools, memory and security risk attached. Most teams should start with scripts, workflows or one targeted model call before reaching for a persistent agent.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar looks at five fast-moving GitHub projects: Hermes Agent, OpenScreen, Google AI Edge Gallery, DeepTutor, and Multica. The pattern is clear. Open source is moving from code libraries into full products for agents, local AI, screen demos, and learning workflows.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
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Karpathy Killed His RAG Pipeline for a Folder of Markdown. Here's the Full Build Guide.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki thread drew 16M views. His Gist with zero code got 5,000 stars. The pattern, a hands-on tutorial, the ecosystem, and why the "idea file" may matter more than the wiki.

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The Problem With OpenAI and Anthropic. $1.2 Trillion in AI Wants to Go Public, and Neither Company Can Close the Trust Gap.

OpenAI's shares are going unsold. Anthropic leaked its source code twice. Both want IPOs worth $1.2 trillion. Neither can close the trust gap.

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GPT-5.5 wasn't a benchmark flex. It was OpenAI's distribution doctrine.
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GPT-5.5 wasn't a benchmark flex. It was OpenAI's distribution doctrine.

40% — Fewer output tokens GPT-5.5 burns vs GPT-5.4, turning a doubled sticker price into a ~20% real-world increase

OpenAI did not just launch GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026. It put the model inside ChatGPT and Codex, held the API back, and turned access control into part of the product. Anthropic had already done the opposite with Mythos, limiting it to vetted infrastructure partners and skipping general availability. The benchmark headlines matter less than the release logic taking shape. The next fight may not be model quality at all, but who controls the door.

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