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I Used Four AI Models to Write a 10,000-Word Article in One Night. Here’s What It Cost Me.
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (468+ words) At 11:07 p.m. last Tuesday, I pasted a 10,000-word brief into my writing tool and hit go. Half an hour later, a red bar appeared: quota almost gone. I scrolled the draft. Correct. Boring. I deleted a sentence. Typed it again. Deleted…...
The 0.02 Yuan Price Cut Is Not the Interesting Part
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (638+ words) At 12:00 Beijing time on September 10, DeepSeek changed its Flash pricing. I opened the page and copied the numbers into a spreadsheet. Idle hours: cache-hit input 0.02 yuan per million tokens, cache-miss input 1 yuan, output 4 yuan. Peak hours double those. Cache-hit input…...
I Tried GPT-Image-2.5: The AI Image Editor That Finally Learned What Not to Touch
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1024+ words) The model is available to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users, including free users. Four changes matter: speed, edit accuracy, input methods, and two API models. Speed is only part of the release. Edit accuracy is the main change....
Why Bare Metal Is Making a Comeback: Inside the Shift Away from Public Cloud
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (968+ words) You are not an outlier. IDC's Cloud Pulse 4Q 2023 survey found that close to half of cloud buyers spent more on cloud than they expected in 2023, and 59% expected the same overrun the following year. The direction of travel has shifted too....
How Clipto is Indexing the Digital Deluge
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (475+ words) Vocal How Clipto is Indexing the Digital Deluge As generative models flood the world with synthetic and captured media, a newly funded startup is betting that the ultimate productivity tool isn't about creating more, but finding what we already have....
The Orange Cone That Conquered the World: VLC’s Seven-Billion-Download Milestone
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (640+ words) Vocal The Orange Cone That Conquered the World: VLC’s Seven-Billion-Download Milestone In an era of subscription fatigue and walled gardens, the open-source media player’s relentless growth is a testament to the enduring power of free, frictionless utility. The sheer velocity…...
Instagram’s Crackdown on Undisclosed AI Personas | 01
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (324+ words) Instagram’s Crackdown on Undisclosed AI Personas Vocal Instagram’s Crackdown on Undisclosed AI Personas As artificial intelligence blurs the line between human and machine, the platform introduces strict labeling requirements and algorithmic penalties to restore digital authenticity and user trust. Social…...
Instagram Is Labeling Real Photos as AI-Generated, Here’s Why
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (625+ words) The issue, highlighted in a report by the U.S. technology website The Verge, is raising questions about how Instagram determines whether an image has been produced or altered with artificial intelligence. For users, the problem is particularly frustrating because the platform…...
Your AI Rules Are Now Your Biggest Problem – Here's Why GPT‑6 Astra Demands You Delete Them
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (1247+ words) You open your project. Your AI coding assistant reads AGENTS.md, loads every Skill description, and stops. "This rule says read all documentation before every edit. That rule says load only on demand. Which should I follow?" It's not being…...
Code Is Becoming Free: What’s Next for Big Tech?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1604+ words) That reality created some of the largest and most profitable companies in history. Microsoft could sell Office to hundreds of millions of users. Adobe could build an empire around creative software. Salesforce, Oracle and SAP could charge companies enormous recurring…...