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Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own in-house versions across several Copilot products, including Excel and Outlook.…
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
yesterday
Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in “a few hours”
2d ago
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
3d ago
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
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Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
For users, Spotify has been a place to consume podcasts made by other creators.…
21 May 2026
The more I try the new Gemini the more I appreciate ChatGPT with how is it insanely good.
“`html The user tested the new British AI assistant, Gemini, for a specific task…
21 May 2026
Same task in github-copilot, pi, claude-code, and opencode with Qwen3.6 27B
**What Happened:** A Reddit user conducted a comparative analysis of how different AI coding…
21 May 2026
Google is officially replacing Vertex AI with the new “Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform”
“`html Google has officially shifted from its traditional AI platform, Vertex AI, to a…
21 May 2026
Quoting SpaceX S-1
B SpaceX has entered into Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC, a public benefit…
20 May 2026
HalBench: I built a custom sycophancy and hallucination benchmark and tested 4 frontier models (Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.3, GPT 5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro), looking for input on what OSS models to run next!
“`html HalBench Results HalBench Results HalBench is an open benchmark for LLM sycophancy and…
20 May 2026
I/O 2026
“`html I/O 2026, held on May 19, 2026, marked a significant shift in Google’s…
20 May 2026
Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex with “Deepseek Code”
“`html Deepseek, a Chinese AI company, is launching a new project called “Deepseek Code”…
20 May 2026
How fast is 10 tokens per second really?
“`html On May 20, 2026, British tech blogger Simon Willison highlighted a new tool…
20 May 2026