Blog

AI news, guides, and comparisons

What new AI models and tools can do, what they cost, how they compare, and how to run them yourself.

RSS
A stepped sieve of many scraped social post cards narrowing through an Apify connector plug into an AI assistant block that outputs a few distilled findings.

How Do You Use the Apify Connector for AI Research?

Use Apify scrapers through Claude to mine Reddit, YouTube comments and social posts, then turn the research into decisions. Availability and costs covered.

Apify connector ClaudeApify AI researchresearch into decision workflow
An abstract calendar grid joined to a chat bubble, with a rack of rule cards and one accent token being placed into an open time slot, representing a Slack scheduling assistant booking meetings.

How Do You Use ChatGPT Dot in Slack to Book Meetings?

Set up OpenAI's Dot as a Slack scheduling assistant: calendar access, a 20 to 25 rule set, and personalization settings so others can book with it.

ChatGPT Dot SlackAI meeting scheduling agentDot appointment booking
A large open knife-switch interrupting the power feed to one big compute block, while many small identical model cubes stay connected on a separate bus, depicting how an AI pause would affect frontier training but not already-distributed open-weight models.

Would Pausing AI Reduce Cyber Risk? The Sanders Proposal

Bernie Sanders wants to pause AI and outlaw superintelligence. Here is what a pause would and would not fix for cyber risk, open-weight models and AI agents.

pause AI Bernie Sandersopen-source models cyber riskAI agents bank accounts
Exploded cutaway of a PHP web server stack in which a single malformed request passes a gate in the interpreter layer while a swarm of automated probes converges on it and a line runs down into cloud tenant accounts.

What Is Black October? AI Attack Swarms and the PHP Flaw

Black October explained: the October 21 PHP disclosure, AI agent attack traffic, Storm-0940's three-hour cloud takeover, and why patching may not be enough.

Black October cyber attacksAI agent swarm attacksPHP vulnerability
Cutaway diagram of workloads flowing from many cloud machine racks into a single compact Mac whose unified memory block holds a local language model.

Can You Run Perplexity Computer Locally on a Mac? (36GB)

Perplexity Computer is reported to run on a Mac with Qwen 3.6 instead of cloud machines. What the 36GB unified memory figure means and what to check first.

Perplexity Computer Macrun Perplexity Computer locallyQwen 3.6 Mac
A pipeline of block segments passing through benchmark, test, reference-design and orchestration checkpoints, illustrating a long Claude Opus 5.5 coding run kept on track.

How to Use Claude Opus 5.5 for Long Coding Tasks

Five habits for keeping Claude Opus 5.5 on track during hour-long coding runs: simple prompts, benchmarks, tests, reference designs, and team orchestration.

Claude Opus 5.5 workflowOpus 5.5 codinglong-running coding agent
A block of one hundred cells where a large fused majority of sixty-eight is set against three smaller separate clusters, illustrating the ownership split of the Kling AI unit ahead of its planned IPO.

What Is the Kling IPO Plan and Who Owns Kling AI?

Kuaishou's Kling AI video unit plans a Hong Kong IPO next year at about $18B. Kuaishou holds 68%, with Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu as minority backers.

Kling IPOKling AI valuationKuaishou Kling Hong Kong
A central design machine feeding three outputs: a stepped stack of shrinking quantization slabs, a pyramid of cubes for the model, and a grid of kernel tiles, with one small core highlighted.

What Is Recursive's Eureka Machine and Did It Build Flint?

Recursive, led by Richard Socher with $650M raised, says its Eureka machine helped design Flint's architecture, quantization, and kernels. What is known so far.

Eureka machineRecursive Richard Socherrecursive self-improvement
A single DNA model tool module receiving a small reference tag for a stored DNA strand while several agent stations connect to it.

How Do You Use Carbon-X as a DNA Tool for AI Agents?

Wrap a vLLM-served Carbon-X as an agent tool: ask_carbon, tool calling, Claude Code and Codex skills, Inspect, and tips for passing DNA by reference.

Carbon-X agent toolask_carbonCarbon-X Claude Code skill
Cutaway of a neural network showing one neuron that holds car, cat and chair shapes at the same tilt, a shared pose concept found by interpretability research.

Is AI Still a Black Box? What GoodFire Found in Neurons

GoodFire research suggests AI neurons that look random, like a car-and-cat unit, may share a concept such as pose. What it means for AI safety and reading LLMs.

GoodFire interpretabilityAI black boxneuron interpretability