OpenAI is still handing GPT-6 Astra out in stages. OpenRouter listed it on September 4, so you can ask it a question in about 10 minutes and pay cents instead of a monthly plan.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor, what changes on November 12
OpenAI told SpaceX it will stop serving its models inside Cursor on November 12. Cursor says those models carry about 5% of its traffic. Here is what really stops, and what to do first.
How to build an AI voice agent that costs nothing to run
It listens through your microphone, thinks on your own machine and answers out loud. No account, no card, no meter. Here is the full build, in about an hour, without writing code.
An AI agent for SEO that picks keywords from real data, writes the draft and reports on Telegram every morning. The full build, the master prompt, and what a $20 plan really covers.
How to build an MCP server tonight without writing code
A working MCP server that gives Claude live Hacker News access, written for you by a coding agent from one printed prompt. No API keys anywhere, and every command checked before it shipped.
Claude Code vs Codex on price, models, sandboxing, reach and customization, with every figure read from Anthropic's and OpenAI's own pages on 28 August 2026.
The 5 ways the money actually arrives, with prices read off the vendors' own pages, and the single quarter of Nvidia data center sales that came in larger than Anthropic's annualized run rate.
Best AI note taking app for meetings, ranked for 2026
6 tools ranked on the 2 questions that decide it, whether a bot joins your call and whether it works in a room. Every price checked on the vendor's own page.
LM Studio vs Ollama, 5 checks that decide which one you install
LM Studio 0.4.22 and Ollama v0.33.1 both run open models on your own machine for $0. Install, models, memory, API and license, checked against the vendor docs, with a winner in each.
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The story everyone read at the top, the ones you missed below. One email a week, on Tuesday morning.