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How 3,700 OpenAI Agents Ran a Secret Forum to Cheat on Tests
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AI is quickly becoming the front page of the internet for developers — recommending tools, frameworks, and companies to millions of people a day. Obsurfable just made their entire LLM v...
One Company Is About to Control How You Run Every AI Model
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AI Companies Are Now Destroying Books to Feed Models
AI labs are buying rare books by the thousand and putting them through a shredder. Plus: Stack Overflow's death spiral and Anthropic's watermark controversy.
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Why Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl Is Making Cloudflare Angry
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl just open-sourced Cloudflare's best idea. Tailscale finds a 16-year-old SQLite bug. Amazon builds private power plants for AI.
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What Happens When AI Gets Access to Real Money?
Cloudflare gives AI agents real money, Mythos & GPT-5.6 go rogue in security tests, and a $3,000 AI research experiment exposes the limits of autonomous agents.
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