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NVIDIA's 128GB DGX Spark is $6,950, a 128GB Surface is $5,899
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NVIDIA's 128GB DGX Spark is $6,950, a 128GB Surface is $5,899

NVIDIA raised the bigger DGX Spark and added a half memory box at $4,999. Microsoft then priced 2 machines with the same memory below both. Which Spark makes sense, and when.

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  1. Best sign language translation app in 2026, ranked by the job

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  2. RunPod vs Vast.ai, 5 tests and the real price of a 4090

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  3. What Meta Muse costs, and what it needs from you first

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  4. Google TPU vs Nvidia GPU, what an hour on each really costs

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  5. How to move from Deno Deploy to Cloudflare Workers tonight

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OpenAI withdraws 3 math papers over 1 sign error
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OpenAI withdraws 3 math papers over 1 sign error

Mistral Large 4 is open weight, and your laptop can't run it
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Mistral Large 4 is open weight, and your laptop can't run it

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OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach
Agents

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OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach

What OpenAI's training pause stops, and what keeps running
Agents

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What OpenAI's training pause stops, and what keeps running

Meta Muse Charm ships in December with no price yet
Agents

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Meta Muse Charm ships in December with no price yet

What OpenAI's Agents API costs, and who can't use it yet
Agents

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What OpenAI's Agents API costs, and who can't use it yet

What Meta Muse costs, and what it needs from you first
Agents

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What Meta Muse costs, and what it needs from you first

Claude Code vs Codex, 5 checks and one verdict
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Claude Code vs Codex, 5 checks and one verdict

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Best long context LLM in 2026, priced per full window
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Best long context LLM in 2026, priced per full window

8 models with a window near a million tokens, ranked by what one full window costs to send. Reflection announced Beam on 5 October, and this morning there were still no weights to download.

AI spending limits, which providers actually stop the bill
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AI spending limits, which providers actually stop the bill

Simon Willison wants hard budget caps on by default. Each vendor's own billing page, read on 5 October 2026, says 4 of these 5 AI services already stop at a monthly ceiling you never set.

How to check Full Disk Access on Mac, before an agent does
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How to check Full Disk Access on Mac, before an agent does

Apple says it will tighten the Mac permission that hands an app your mail, messages and browsing history. It named no version and no date, so here is the 20 minute audit you can run tonight.

What a decision model is, and why Clef is not the cheap one
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What a decision model is, and why Clef is not the cheap one

Cloudflare open sourced Clef on 1 October and charges $0.240 per million input tokens for it. TypeSafe's Jev, the model Cloudflare measures itself against, publishes $0.042.

Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra, the one you can't buy
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Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra, the one you can't buy

Google announced Argon on 30 September at a fifth of Astra's price for an introductory period. It has no row on Google's own pricing page, and its only door is a program with 650 partners.

OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach
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OpenAI dots cost nothing extra, and $100 a month to reach

Your first dot is included at no extra cost on ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium. The cheapest door is the $100 a month Pro plan, and OpenAI's pricing page answers no for Plus at $20.

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Ray Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 3, what the extra $70 buys
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Ray Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 3, what the extra $70 buys

Meta put the Gen 3 on sale on 23 September 2026 at $449 while the Gen 2 stays at $379. The camera is the same on both, so the $70 buys battery, a microphone and a button.

Claude Slides vs Gamma, what a deck costs on each
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Claude Slides vs Gamma, what a deck costs on each

Anthropic put Claude Slides on paid plans on 16 September 2026. Gamma already does the same job on a free tier. We priced both at the source this morning.

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