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DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match The AI Layoff Memo Has a New Target. Middle Management Is First. Anthropic Says Mythos Found 10,000 Critical Software Flaws in a Month Musk Built Grok to Carry His Politics. That Choice Capped Its Market. Nature Study Maps China’s Solar-Wind Grid Constraint Trump Slows the Review. Spotify Locks the Library. GitHub Goes Local. DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match The AI Layoff Memo Has a New Target. Middle Management Is First. Anthropic Says Mythos Found 10,000 Critical Software Flaws in a Month Musk Built Grok to Carry His Politics. That Choice Capped Its Market. Nature Study Maps China’s Solar-Wind Grid Constraint Trump Slows the Review. Spotify Locks the Library. GitHub Goes Local.
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DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match

DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match

On Saturday, DeepSeek removed the strikethroughs from its V4 Pro pricing page and made a 75 percent discount permanent. Output tokens now cost $0.87 per million, 34.5 times less than GPT-5.5. The gap runs on Huawei chips. It widens with every Ascend 950 that ships. Western labs cannot match the price without breaking the revenue models their valuations depend on. Enterprise buyers just got a new benchmark — and a geopolitical dilemma that no per-token price can resolve.

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 tracks five GitHub projects pulling AI onto hardware teams control: openhuman, a Rust personal agent with on-device inference; LEANN, a private retrieval index that runs on a laptop; supertonic, on-device speech across 31 languages; archestra, a governance plane for company MCP servers; and NVIDIA's video-search-and-summarization blueprint for self-hosted vision agents. Stars, license, push date, and a difficulty score for each.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke
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TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke

Marco Hillger built TypeWhisper after a stroke three years ago left him unable to type for sustained periods. The open-source app now earns about 2,000 euros a month while staying free under GPLv3, and it lets users pick their own speech engines and cleanup models.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus
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Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus

Build a professional Pi Coding Agent communication bus with a local broker, TypeScript extension, role prompts, message acks, TTL pruning, and guardrails for production-to-development handoffs. This tutorial shows how to run two Pi sessions with separate context, exchange redacted fixtures safely, block command forwarding, and add audit-ready message logs before adding agents. You also learn why remote messages are input, not authority.

Marcus Schuler · 20 min read ·
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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

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The AI Layoff Memo Has a New Target. Middle Management Is First.
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The AI Layoff Memo Has a New Target. Middle Management Is First.

Cloudflare gave AI layoffs a vocabulary: measurers. Meta cut 8,000 jobs and moved 7,000 workers toward AI. Intuit cut about 3,000. The common target is not every job. It is the management and support layer that turns work into reports.

Cloudflare cut more than 1,100 jobs while internal AI use rose more than 600% in three months, and CEO Matthew Prince named the target: measurers, the audit, finance, legal, compliance and middle-management roles that watch and coordinate work. Meta cut about 8,000 jobs while shifting 7,000 toward AI, and Intuit cut about 3,000 and is winding down two offices. The same-week pattern is narrower than mass automation. The next AI layoff memo is aimed at the layer that turns work into reports.

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