I test & review AI tools so you don't waste $20. News, tutorials, automation, side hustles. Just what actually matters.
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Jun 8
Apple just rebuilt Siri on a custom Google Gemini model. ~$1b a year to rent the brain it couldnt build.
The stock jumped 3% on the reveal then turned red and closed down when people realized the new Siri is basically Gemini on an iPhone.
The moment finally came and it belonged to Google.
@Apple @tim_cook @Google @sundarpichai
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Jun 4
So @chainguard_dev just committed $50m and 100 engineers to building open source trust infrastructure specifically against the Mythos zero day threat.
First company to treat @AnthropicAI's security model as the thing to defend against instead of the thing to buy. Hopefully won't be the last.
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Jun 3
Anthropic studied 832 banned hacker accounts over a year. The finding nobody is leading with:
Least skilled attackers now use ~16 techniques, most skilled use ~20.. that gap used to be a canyon.
AI does the hard part now. The expertise barrier that kept most hacking amateur is just gone.
@AnthropicAI @MITREattack
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Jun 3
So it seems like @AnthropicAI quietly expanded project glasswing into power, water, healthcare, and comms this week.
Plus wired @claudeai into @CrowdStrike, @PaloAltoNtwks, @okta and @zscaler
They're using the pre-IPO window to swallow the vulnerability scanning industry before anyone prices it in.
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Jun 2
Pewdiepie just shipped a free self hosted AI workspace called Odysseus. 21k github stars in two days.
It's rough. It's vibecoded. Security folks have notes.
But the most subscribed human on YouTube just told 110 million people that AI is something you can own instead of rent.
@pewdiepie @YouTube
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Jun 1
Hermes Agent is now natively supported on @Windows
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Jun 1
Jensen said "a long time ago nvidia used to be a gpu company" then spent two hours proving the past tense.
Petaflop laptops running agents locally. Vera Rubin shipping across 350 factories and Hermes agent Openclaw named the flagships. Nvidia isnt a chip company anymore.
@nvidia @NVIDIAAI @NousResearch @openclaw
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May 30
Two things happened this week. @AnthropicAI raised $65b at $965b and a Chinese lab shipped a 198b MOE model that costs less than Gemini Flash, runs on prem, and matches Claude Opus on caller-configurable reasoning effort
The frontier vs commodity gap is closing faster than anyone is pricing in
May 29
⚡️ Step 3.7 Flash is here: The new frontier is agent efficiency.
#1 ClawEval-1.1 (67.1), #1 SimpleVQA Search (79.2), #2 SWE-PRO (56.3), 95.3 on V* Python. Open weights under Apache 2.0.
Built for agentic, coding, search, and multimodal workflows — balancing speed, cost, and reliable execution.
- 400 TPS. 198B sparse MoE, ~11B active. 256K context, 3 reasoning levels.
- Understands UIs, charts, docs, images — then writes code or calls tools to act on what it sees.
- Web visual search reaches further: more sources, deeper follow-up.
- Reliable tool use — less drift, fewer broken toolcalls. 98% on τ²-bench across all difficulty levels.
- Works with Claude Code, KiloCode, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and protocols like MCP.
- Runs locally on Mac Studio M4 Max, DGX Spark, AMD AI Max 395.
GitHub: github.com/stepfun-ai/Step-3…
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GGUF: huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/St…
ModelScope: modelscope.cn/models/stepfun…
API: platform.stepfun.ai
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May 28
Anthropic just shipped Opus 4.8 and quietly mentioned its misalignment rate matches Claude Mythos
Meaning the model you can use today behaves the same as the one only 50 companies are allowed near
Either Anthropic just confirmed Mythos isnt that scary, or 4.8 is closer to it than they want to say.. cant be both
mythos rolling out broadly in coming weeks btw
@claudeai @AnthropicAI @ClaudeDevs
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May 27
Anthropic closed at 900b this week. Up from 380b fourteen weeks ago, more valuable than OpenAI
Every wall street outlet is writing the same story.. nobody is writing the part that matters if youre the regular person paying $20/mo for Claude Pro
@AnthropicAI @claudeai @sequoia @business
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May 21
Google announced this week that search is no longer about links. It's about AI agents doing the searching for you
AI overviews already serves 2.5b monthly users. Ahrefs measured 58% lower ctr on top ranking pages when an aio shows up. Perplexity cites under-30-day content at 82%
AEO isn't a side project anymore.. its the whole job
@Google @perplexity_ai @ChatGPTapp @claudeai
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May 19
Composer 2.5 is now the most-chosen model in Cursor.
We're giving everyone 10x usage for the rest of the day. Enjoy!
May 18
Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet.
It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions.
For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.
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May 19
Anthropic cracked open the Mythos NDA Monday.. glasswing partners can now share findings with regulators, press, open source maintainers, the public
Read the room: the asymmetry between the 50 orgs inside and everyone else didnt close.. it got worse
@AnthropicAI @Reuters
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