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AI bug reports are outrunning the people fixing them
Bounty programs are tightening access while maintainers struggle to separate useful reports from extra work.
BY TIRTH PATEL · 2 MIN READSIGNAL / 01Cheap AI models can still wreck your margins
Three matching token prices can produce very different bills once you count retries, caching and correction time.
BY TIRTH PATEL · 2 MIN READSIGNAL / 02AI labs are holding back their best models. Open ones aren’t.
OpenAI shelved a model and Google gated another in the same week an open model came within six exploits of Anthropic’s best.
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OpenAI's fastest GPT-6 Astra costs 6x, but burns subscription allowances at 8x
Ultrafast charges six times Standard API token rates and uses included ChatGPT Work and Codex allowances at eight times the Standard rate. Its speed claims still need independent testing.
3 MIN READAnthropic's $100M academy has no published budget breakdown
The first cohorts are running. Anthropic has yet to explain the spending or its connection to an earlier $100M pledge.
3 MIN READApple plans tighter Mac permissions as AI agents spread
Apple promises clearer approval for Full Disk Access. It has not announced a release date or linked the change to any named app.
2 MIN READThe best practical uses of AI.
Selected, tested and explained step by step.