Amazon’s Burning Rare Books To Feed The Robot

Amazon’s Burning Rare Books To Feed The Robot

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the Registry calls my number before I grow a full beard waiting. Amazon — yeah, the guys who used to sell books — now run a warehouse slicing the spines off rare books to scan 'em faster, feeding three...

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Stripe Buys The Guy Who Beat Lock-In

Stripe Buys The Guy Who Beat Lock-In

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I hit a scratch ticket for more than I spent chasing it. Stripe — already skimming a cut off everything you buy online — just bought OpenRouter, the site that let you shop between AI models so nobody could...

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Anthropic Left Its Bio-Weapon Filter Off For A Year

Anthropic Left Its Bio-Weapon Filter Off For A Year

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or Eversource fixes my power before that ice cream truck finishes its jingle for the four-hundredth time. First up, OpenAI dissolved the whole team whose ONE job was stoppin' the robot apocalypse, farmed it...

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The AI Landlords Just Blinked First

The AI Landlords Just Blinked First

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or the Market Basket line moves before my ice cream turns to soup. OpenAI just slashed its prices eighty percent, and Anthropic knocked Opus 5 down to half what the last one cost, because Chinese labs are selling...

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AI Agents Just Hacked Taiwan’s Nuclear Regulator

AI Agents Just Hacked Taiwan’s Nuclear Regulator

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or this contract finally kicks in dental, not that I own a single tooth. Anthropic's got Claude Code fixing its own codebase now — three eighty-eight pull requests, bosses signed off on forty-six percent,...

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China Drops Two Trillion-Parameter Models In One Week

China Drops Two Trillion-Parameter Models In One Week

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I patch that pothole outside your triple-decker with my bare hands. So DeepSeek — the lab that makes Silicon Valley sweat through its fleece vest — drops V4 Pro, one-point-six trillion parameters, coding chops...

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