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Zuckerberg and Bezos Show Why Access Is Not Safety

Zuckerberg and Bezos Show Why Access Is Not Safety

Zuckerberg and Bezos gained meetings and policy openings, but the Haberman-Swan book shows the access also gave Trump material to display. Trump reportedly showed visitors private outreach from Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos after the 2024 election, while FEC records show Amazon's inaugural giving in exact dollar lines. The access strategy looks less like insurance when the private overtures become part of Trump's own performance for the room.

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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills
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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills

A Claude Code skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md file, but the GitHub tooling around it has split into distinct jobs. anthropics/skills and skill-creator handle authoring and testing, claude-plugins-official handles versioned distribution, runkids/skillshare syncs one library across Codex and OpenCode, and mattpocock/skills packages engineering-process patterns. Start local, and review any third-party skill like a code dependency before install.

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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis
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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis named Z.ai's GLM-5.2 the top open-weight model on its Intelligence Index, scoring 51 to lead every open peer. Independent reviewers clocked it near Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on build tasks at roughly five times lower cost, though the model burns 43,000 output tokens per benchmark task. GLM-5.2 ships under an MIT license with a 1-million-token context window and open weights on Hugging Face.

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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 #10: as coding agents push GitHub to machine scale, the week's trending repos are the control layer builders wrap around them. NVIDIA's SkillSpector scans agent skills for malicious code, agentsview gives every coding agent a local cost-and-session ledger, codebase-memory-mcp turns a repo into a queryable memory graph, agentgateway fronts agents and MCP servers with auth and budgets, and LMCache reuses the KV cache to cut inference latency. Scored on stars, license, and setup difficul

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A Free App From Berlin Is Out-Engineering the $81 Million Dictation Leader

Voice dictation became the rare AI tool that changed how people write. As the speech models commoditize, the fight has moved to the layer above them, where a free app built by a developer who cannot type competes with the $81 million leader and the operating systems closing in.

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NVIDIA's RTX Spark Splits the Local-AI Hardware Decision in Two

NVIDIA's RTX Spark drops CUDA and 128GB of unified memory into mainstream Windows PCs, sharpening a local-AI buying decision that now turns on what fails first: memory capacity, bandwidth, or model quality. What an individual and a startup should actually buy in 2026, and where to stop spending.

The White House Is Asking Anthropic for the Impossible
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The White House Is Asking Anthropic for the Impossible

The order can force a shutdown; it cannot make guardrails perfect, and that gap turns one jailbreak dispute into a frontier AI precedent.

The order can force a shutdown; it cannot make guardrails perfect, and that gap turns one jailbreak dispute into a frontier AI precedent. Anthropic says the Amazon finding was narrow and gave no Mythos-specific uplift. The White House says a trusted partner found a jailbreak and wants guardrails that cannot be circumvented before Fable returns. The fight now turns on whether AI safety means perfect blocking or a logged, mitigated release process.

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