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Technical guide21 min read

TPU v8 vs Blackwell: How AI Silicon Is Splitting Into Training and Inference Chips

Training and inference need different silicon. TPU v8t/v8i architecture, comparison to Blackwell's unified design, and per-token cost implications.

Insight9 min read

OpenAI Ships Codex in the ChatGPT Mobile App — The Phone Becomes an Agent Remote Control

Codex now runs in the ChatGPT mobile app as a remote control for macOS agents — the phone supervises while code and credentials stay on desktop.

Technical guide17 min read

Compressed Sparse Attention: How DeepSeek V4 Reached 1M Context at 27% of the FLOPs

DeepSeek V4 hits 1M context at 27% of V3.2's per-token compute. How Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention combine to do it.

Technical guide16 min read

KV Cache: The Hidden Memory Wall in LLM Inference

The KV cache memory wall in LLM inference: the math behind long context costs and architectural solutions (GQA, MQA, MLA, paged attention).

Insight4 min read

Anthropic Launches Claude Design — Figma Drops 7% the Same Day

Claude Design generates prototypes, slide decks, and mockups from plain prose, imports design systems, and triggered a 7% Figma stock drop.

Insight6 min read

Anthropic Unveils Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing — A Cybersecurity Alliance Built Around Its Most Capable Model

Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-days in major OSes and browsers. Anthropic gates it via Project Glasswing for vetted security teams.

Insight5 min read

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT 5.5 and Merges Everything Into a Single Desktop Super App

ChatGPT 5.5 unifies Codex, Atlas, and chat in one desktop app. Better memory and task continuity enable integrated AI workspace for coding and web work.

Insight5 min read

Anthropic Accidentally Leaks Claude Code's Entire Source Code via npm

A misconfigured npm package exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code's source—revealing system prompts, KAIROS daemon, and unreleased features.

Insight6 min read

Gemini 3 Flash: Google's Best Coding Model Isn't Its Most Powerful One

Gemini 3 Flash: 78% SWE-bench outperforms Gemini 3 Pro on coding. Fastest, cheapest model optimized for agentic coding and multimodal reasoning.

Insight5 min read

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: The Open Model Built for Multi-Agent Systems

Nemotron 3 Super: 120B open model blending Mamba and Transformer, with 4x memory efficiency, 1M token context, and 7.5x throughput advantage.

Insight6 min read

Anthropic's Claude Code Review: AI-Generated Code Reviewed by AI

Multi-agent code review for Claude Code: filters false positives, ranks bugs by severity, automates GitHub PR feedback with structured inline comments.

Technical guide20 min read

Small MoE Models: How Sparse Routing Makes Efficient AI Possible

Small-scale Mixture of Experts: sparse routing lets 47B models match 70B dense equivalents. Mixtral, DeepSeek-MoE, Phi-MoE, efficiency math.