AI
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Qwen Image 2.1 is free to download, and not yours to sell
Alibaba's new image model is a free download that bans commercial use. The 6 Qwen image models before it are Apache 2.0, and every one of them is still on Hugging Face.
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Model launches, lab moves, and the compute bills behind them.
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AI
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What Astra for Law costs, and what its 54% really means
OpenAI shipped a legal configuration of GPT-6 Astra on 17 September. No page in the launch carries a price, and the 54% everyone quoted was scored on questions the public leaderboard will not use.
AI
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Gemini 3.8 Live undercuts OpenAI, and stops at 15 minutes
Google's new voice models cost about half a cent a minute to listen and under 2 cents to answer, far below OpenAI's published rates. A plain call still ends at 15 minutes unless you compress it.
AI
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What Claude Fable 5.1 really did to a 370 year old cipher
Vals AI says Claude Fable 5.1 read a cipher printed in 1653 in 44 minutes. A replication the next day reports 8 of the 64 letters, which is chance.
AI
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Siri vs Gemini, what each one keeps and what it costs
Apple's new Siri AI lands as an English only beta, and Apple says Google's Gemini models are underneath. Here is what each assistant sees, keeps and charges.
AI
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OpenAI researchers each use over $600 a day of coding agents
OpenAI published what its own researchers put through coding agents, more than $600 a day each valued at list API prices, and over $7,000 for the heaviest tenth.
AI
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VDN H3 makes AI video faster than it plays, if you can use it
Researchers at UC Berkeley and the company Impossible published free weights that render a 14.4 second clip in 11.23 seconds. The license excludes the EU, the UK, South Korea and the US.
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