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Open-source developer, co-creator of Django, and one of the sharpest public voices on practical LLM use. Blog is a primary source for many AI posts here.

13 articles First covered Apr 17, 2026, latest Aug 3, 2026
The GitHub social preview card for the openai/ten-proofs repository, described as Lean certificates accompanying proofs in mathematics and theoretical computer science, showing 386 stars and 35 forks.
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Ten decade-old math problems fell to an unreleased OpenAI model, for about $2,000 of tokens each

OpenAI published ten results in math and theoretical CS from an internal build of Astra, with Lean 4 certificates for every proof. What that verification does and doesn't settle.

The Hugging Face model page card for deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, showing the DeepSeek whale logo and the repository name
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DeepSeek's new 304B agentic model now runs on a single 128GB workstation

Salvatore Sanfilippo repacked DeepSeek V4 Flash into a lossless MXFP4 GGUF that streams from SSD at over 20 tokens a second. The hardware bill, and where hosted still wins.

GitHub repository card for vercel-labs/scriptc, labelled TypeScript-to-Native Compiler, showing the Vercel triangle logo and 1k stars
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TypeScript compiled to native: Vercel's scriptc ships a 178KB binary with no JS engine

Vercel Labs open-sourced scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary. Its README claims 2.4ms startup. Hacker News is not convinced.

GitHub repository card for songquanpeng/one-api, the open-source LLM API management and distribution gateway that most relay services run on
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Matt Lenhard found 49 relays reselling OpenAI and Anthropic tokens. The cheapest runs 97.8% below list.

Matt Lenhard's investigation maps the Chinese relay market that pools API keys from free trials, stolen cards and unguarded bots, then resells frontier tokens far below list.

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 announcement graphic
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Claude Sonnet 5: cheaper agents on paper, until you count the new tokenizer's tokens

Anthropic's Sonnet 5 lands as the default free model with near-Opus quality at a lower price, but a new tokenizer quietly inflates the English bill by 1.4x.

Abstract cybersecurity illustration of a glowing padlock over a circuit board, representing data protection
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OpenAI added a Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to blunt prompt-injection attacks

OpenAI shipped Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to cut off the data-exfiltration step of prompt-injection attacks. Here's what it actually restricts and who should turn it on.

Anthropic's announcement artwork for Claude Opus 4.8, a soft gradient panel with the Claude wordmark.
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Claude Opus 4.8 flags the bugs it writes four times more often than Opus 4.7

Anthropic's Opus 4.8 posts 69.2% on SWE-Bench Pro, lets code flaws slip 4x less often, and ships parallel subagents in Claude Code. Here's what matters.

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GitLab is cutting staff and killing its CREDIT values. The CEO calls it 'Act 2.'

CEO Bill Staples announced a restructuring he frames around agentic AI, retiring GitLab's six core values for three new operating principles. Exact layoff numbers come June 2.

DeepSeek social card from the V4 API documentation release post.
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DeepSeek V4 lands: 1.6T-param open MoE, 1M-token context, and SWE-bench within 0.2 of Opus 4.6

DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.

Anthropic Engineering postmortem cover image.
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Anthropic admits three Claude Code bugs quietly tanked quality for six weeks

Anthropic's April 23 postmortem names three bugs that degraded Claude Code between March 4 and April 20. Usage limits are being reset for every subscriber.

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GitHub Copilot paused new signups and kicked Opus out of Pro. Here's what actually changed.

GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.

Header card from Simon Willison's 'Qwen3.6 beats Opus' post comparing pelican SVGs
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Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B: the open MoE beating Opus 4.7 on Simon Willison's laptop

Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.

Claude Opus 4.7 launch artwork from the Anthropic news post
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Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and the long-context benchmarks got worse

Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is state-of-the-art on SWE-bench and CursorBench, but independent tests show regressions on long-context retrieval and thematic reasoning.