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OpenAI lost two moonshot leaders. Codex now owns the bill.

OpenAI lost two moonshot leaders. Codex now owns the bill.

OpenAI lost Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles as Sora winds down and OpenAI for Science folds into Codex. The exits look like churn, but the sharper story is resource discipline, with Codex becoming the place where science, video, enterprise agents, and compute costs must justify themselves. That can calm investors and enterprise buyers, but it also tests whether a lab can keep risky ideas alive once every project meets the register.

By Marcus Schuler · 13 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 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 ·
Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows
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Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows

Chrome Skills turn repeated Gemini in Chrome prompts into reusable browser workflows. This intermediate tutorial shows how to confirm access, save useful prompts, compare selected tabs, build a research verification Skill, and keep the library from becoming clutter. It also explains where the rollout is limited, why selected tabs matter, when a saved prompt is too risky for confidential work, and how to test outputs before trusting them.

Harkaram Grewal · 16 min read ·
The Token Optimization Industry Shouldn't Exist. That's the Point.
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The Token Optimization Industry Shouldn't Exist. That's the Point.

Half of Claude Code's 200,000-token context window vanishes before developers type a single message. Now a cottage industry of optimization hacks, paid toolkits, and CLAUDE.md pruning rituals has sprung up to manage the tool that was supposed to manage itself. The parallel to manual memory management isn't flattering, and the business incentives behind it are even worse.

Marcus Schuler · 14 min read ·
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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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Apple at 50 Has Everything Except an AI Strategy. The Next CEO Inherits the Gap.

Apple turns 50 with record revenue but no AI strategy of its own. John Ternus is the likely next CEO. He inherits the gap.

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DeepSeek may raise $300 million. Cheap AI has a receipt.
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DeepSeek may raise $300 million. Cheap AI has a receipt.

DeepSeek is reportedly talking with investors about at least $300 million at a $10 billion valuation, just as V4 shifts toward Huawei chips. The old $5.6 million training-run story made cheap AI sound like an escape from capital intensity. Now the bill is moving into chips, inference, reliability, and a Chinese hardware corridor. The unresolved question: whether V4 can make that corridor hold before the kitchen starts taking orders.

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