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Muse Spark Open weighs 1,644 GB, more than 2 Macs hold
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Muse Spark Open weighs 1,644 GB, more than 2 Macs hold

Meta says its new downloadable model runs at home on 2 Apple Mac Studios. The files it published are 1,644 GB, the 2 machines hold about 1,024 GB, and Apple ships the big one late October.

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OpenCode vs Claude Code, and the version you really get
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OpenCode vs Claude Code, and the version you really get

Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs
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Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs

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Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs
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Best AI model for agents in 2026, ranked by what it costs

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

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

Meta Muse Charm ships in December with no price yet
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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
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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
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What Meta Muse costs, and what it needs from you first

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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.

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

Deno Deploy shuts down in 6 months, and the migration help Deno promised covers paying customers. Here is the whole move, done tonight, by somebody who has never opened a terminal.

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

Mistral announced its biggest model on 6 October 2026 and said the weights arrive by the end of the month. This morning there was still no file, and Ollama offers it as a cloud model only.

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.

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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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