Neolabs are racing to show what they can do before OpenAI and Anthropic IPO and investors give them a ton of money they can’t take back.
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New Hiring Plans Challenge Predictions of an AI-Driven Workforce Wipeout
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CSX and Google parent Alphabet are among the companies that recently told investors they plan to hire. The push to expand headcount is a reversal in corporate messaging in the AI era. https://
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Topview Adds MiniMax H3 for Native 2K Multimodal Video Generation
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ONE OF THE FIRST PLATFORMS IN THE WORLD JUST GOT MINIMAX H3.
— AI Highlight (@AIHighlight) 31 juillet 2026
AI video has been powerful but painfully expensive. Creators kept paying premium prices for every second of output.@TopviewAIhq just changed that. Native 2K, 15 second clips, full multimodal control, at 30% of… https://t.co/qo6U54CJnC pic.twitter.com/kV4fr2eSQqONE OF THE FIRST PLATFORMS IN THE WORLD JUST GOT MINIMAX H3. AI video has been powerful but painfully expensive. Creators kept paying premium prices for every second of output. @TopviewAIhq just changed that. Native 2K, 15 second clips, full multimodal control, at 30% of
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AI Could Become a Major Driver of Global Economic Growth
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everyone loves writing about whether ai has made markets too expensive but no one gives airtime to the reality that the global growth outlook without ai would be dramatically worse ai is the only major new growth engine in sight for years now and we’re so early still.
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AI Wafer Demand Raises AXT’s Profile Amid Trade Tensions
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The global semiconductor renaissance is such that it is making stars out of previously obscure companies, such as forty-year-old AXT. Can its business thrive amidst U.S.-China trade wars? AXT soars on AI wafer demand: a star is born? People joke about the overnight sensation
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Price Cuts and DeepSeek Improvements Put Pressure on Sonnet 5
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OpenAI's price cut yesterday and DeepSeek's Flash update today highlight just how strange a release Sonnet 5 really was. Too weak for real-world use cases, too expensive to compete with budget-friendly options. Sonnet 5 was Anthropic's worst release; I think we can all agree on
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Smaller Models Can Preserve Claude Quota on Routine Coding Tasks
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Me using Claude Fable 5 to change a button color.
— Louis-François Bouchard (@Whats_AI) 31 juillet 2026
And somehow it eats 20% of my weekly Fable limit 😅
Jokes aside, half the limit problem is just picking the wrong model.
Smaller thinking models handle the small routine stuff like renaming a button. Opus medium is the everyday… pic.twitter.com/bz7dHqg2LVMe using Claude Fable 5 to change a button color. And somehow it eats 20% of my weekly Fable limit Jokes aside, half the limit problem is just picking the wrong model. Smaller thinking models handle the small routine stuff like renaming a button. Opus medium is the everyday
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Licensed Distillation Could Become a Frontier AI Business Model
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china aside, seems pretty obvious that distillation is an excellent business model for frontier labs just give people legal ways to do it that make financial sense https://
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A Smaller Model Outperforms GLM 5.2 in Reported Evaluations
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Just so you know, this model beats GLM 5.2 in evaluations (the one we already lost our minds over a couple of months ago), and it's 2.5 times smaller!! Just so you know, yesterday we lost our minds over the new cost frontier set by OpenAI after the GPT 5.6 Luna price cut, [Traduit de FR vers EN]
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GPT-OSS-120B Prices Remain Stable Despite Provider Competition
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The promise of open source is that once weights are available, providers can compete and reduce the cost. But, the average price for GPT-OSS-120b, has barely moved after a week after the release, despite ~19 providers running it. Why is that?