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ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for August 25th, 2026. A mystery frontier coding model just appeared on OpenRouter with no lab attached, free unlimited access, and nobody claiming it — and developers are already feeding it their private code. SARAH: That one has alarm bells written all over it…
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ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for October 22nd, 2026. Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI staff there are exactly three endgames for safe AI, and one of them involves a single lab racing ahead and melting everyone else's GPUs. SARAH: That's a phrase I didn't expect in an internal strategy talk…
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ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for October 19th, 2026. Google just put Gemini 4 Argon on the table at two dollars in, ten dollars out per million tokens — and on December 1st that price doubles to exactly match Claude Opus 5.5. SARAH: So it's a six-week discount window, not a new price floor.…
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