Top stories in tech today: – Big Tech spends $226K a day to lobby Congress
– Meta and Microsoft are slashing thousands of jobs – Tesla is spending $25B to reinvent itself
– Instagram tests a stripped-down Snapchat rival
– Quick hits on other tech news
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Interesting Recent Open Source Projects: Mirofish, Paperclip, Hermes Agent, AutoResearch
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ElevenAgents Extends Conversational Support With AI
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As customer expectations shift toward conversational, always-on support, they chose ElevenAgents to extend that model into support channels without compromising the experience quality that earned that loyalty.
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DeepSeek’s open-source strategy challenges US AI monopolies, alters AGI business models.
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I swear DeepSeek open-sourcing everything is some Sun-Tzu shit. America is trying to build trillion-dollar AI monopolies, and China is trying to make that impossible. If the secret recipe to AGI is (eventually) public, the business model changes. Valuations compress.
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Two-tier pricing model: consumer limits versus enterprise growth
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The $100 plan hitting walls on routine knowledge work while enterprise contracts have no visible ceiling is a two-tier product reality that's getting harder to ignore.
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GPT Image 2 Now Available on Runway for Image Generation
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GPT Image 2 is now available on Runway. If you can dream it, you can see it. Down to the last detail. pic.twitter.com/uBypCqHjZN
— Runway (@runwayml) 24 avril 2026GPT Image 2 is now available on Runway. If you can dream it, you can see it. Down to the last detail.
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NotebookLM Generates Surprising Insights from Book Content
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generated in one shot with NotebookLM based on a book im reading
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) 24 avril 2026
holy fuckin shit pic.twitter.com/xZTDmaIk3Tgenerated in one shot with NotebookLM based on a book im reading holy fuckin shit
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Total control of rendering, movement and atmosphere by AI
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Ce n’est plus juste de l’IA.
— Jouhatsu | AI Influence Operator (@Jouhatsu_ai) 24 avril 2026
C’est du contrôle total sur le rendu, le mouvement, l’ambiance.
GPT Image 2.0 x Seedance 2.0 sur Higgsfield = un autre niveau. https://t.co/jFcNPrvCvV pic.twitter.com/JSLv38yYknThis is no longer just AI. It's total control over rendering, movement, atmosphere. GPT Image 2.0 x Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield = another level.
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Image Generation Creates Beautiful Websites Timeline
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I must say, the timeline where we ended up with nice websites via image generation is pretty funny. Looks beautiful
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Qwen3 27B Runs Locally Rivaling Claude Opus for Coding Tasks
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This is where we are right now. And i’m not gonna lie it feels pretty magical Qwen3.6 27B running inside of Pi coding agent via Llama.cpp on the MacBook Pro For non-trivial tasks on the @huggingface codebases, this feels very, very close to hitting the latest Opus in Claude
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Claude Designs Shows Preference for Serif Fonts and Italics
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oh Boy Claude Designs is OBSESSED with serif fonts and italics