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        The cost to run LLM-powered apps is getting out of hand
            Ethan Ding: Tokens Are Getting More Expensive
every ai company knows usage-based pricing would save them. they also know it
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        iOS 26's new ringtone is an absolute banger
            They went hard on this one.
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        A couple videos about bad science
            As luck would have it, I watched two videos today about how exceptionally widely listened to people got scientific facts
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Don't learn the wrong lesson
            Theo is an interesting guy who's found himself as a bit of an AI YouTuber over the last
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        I paid $35 for this study about "AI" to understand what the hell it meant
            This study published yesterday by The Lancet is getting linked to all over the place with one takeaway: AI makes
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        "Musk failed to provide evidence to support his claim"
            Joe Rossignol on MacRumors: Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over App Store Rankings
"Apple is behaving in a
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
        Tim Cook "had" to do this
            I was listening to this week’s Upgrade and the topic of Tim Cook’s gifting of a trophy to
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Digital Foundry has gone indie
            Just over one year after IGN acquired Digital Foundry, the team has gone indie for the first time since their
        
        
     
        
                    
    
                
    
        More Birchtree, less money
            Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        "No" part 2
            Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        "These people do it naturally"
            I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        "No"
            Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:
"Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "…No! Of course not"
Yet seven
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        How the best Mac stacks up against the best gaming PCs
            Apple's gaming ambitions have apparently brought them to the place where they've sent review hardware to
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        Back to the future when tech was fun
            Lee Peterson writing I miss the time when technology was fun:
I really miss the days when I enjoyed catching
        
        
     
        
                    
    
    
            
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        OpenAI releases their open source models (and they're really impressive)
            OpenAI: Introducing GPT-Oss
The gpt-oss-120b model achieves near-parity with OpenAI o4-mini on core reasoning benchmarks, while running efficiently on a