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Bill Gates Proposes Token Tax and Protected Jobs in AI Essay

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26 August 2026 12h28

Many important and bold ideas in @BillGates
's new essay on the impact of AI need to be discussed… Token Tax and a protected 'nature reserve' for certain jobs, are just two of them.

Cloud Subscriptions Could Remain Cheaper Than Local AI Hardware

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26 August 2026 3h15

I get that, but in that scenario, they’d probably much rather pay the $10 a month It’ll cost to get a model that can do this from the cloud, rather than buy an actual machine to do it locally. Yeah, at some point it’ll move on device, but I think we’re a bit away from that

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DeepSWE Plot Compares GPT-5.6 Sol Coding Scores Against Cost

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26 August 2026 1h16

For a fuller picture posting the DeepSWE 1.1 scores for GPT 5.6 Sol plotted over a linear cost! Solmaxxing is all you need!!

Grok Bot Combines AgentMail and Stripe Link for Accounts and Payments

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25 August 2026 22h31

The ultimate personal agent setup today: @bot + @agentmail + @stripe Link With these three, your agent can sign up for accounts, pay for things, essentially do anything a real personal assistant can do. Try it, thank me later.

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Enterprises Follow Uber’s Strategy of Monthly AI Token Spending Caps

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25 August 2026 20h52

Uber really set the tone for token spend. I’ve been meaning to do a longer post on token caps, so here is what I’m hearing. Multiple F500 and DNBs have been copying Uber’s strategy of monthly limits this past quarter. Uber set a $1500/mo limit. According to several online

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Cloud Advisor Raises Local Perplexity Agent Terminal Bench Score

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25 August 2026 20h43

The local model can escalate to frontier advisor. It's user-gated, PII-flagged, text guidance only. On Terminal Bench 2.1, escalation lifts the score from 59.6% to 73.0% at $0.415 per rollout, recovering about three-fifths of the frontier gap at two-thirds of the cost.

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Economist Estimates Large U.S. Gains From AI-Driven Productivity Growth

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25 August 2026 20h38

If AI improves your productivity by 10%, it's worth $3 trillion/year in the US alone.

Caching Can Undercut the Economics of Automatic Model Routing

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25 August 2026 20h30

Every time a VC sends me an auto-router company to diligence, I send something like this back. If caching wasn't a thing, auto-routing would make much more sense. But… it is a thing.

Grok Bot Books and Pays for a Haircut With Stripe Link

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25 August 2026 20h08

Grok Bot booked my haircut. I told it where I wanted to go and when I was free. That’s it. It got me a spot, used Stripe Link to pay, and sent me a confirmation. I literally just walked in, got the haircut, had zero hiccups. So fucking cool.