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Latest story• Mar 3, 2026

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient AI model for high-volume developer applications. Priced at $0.25 per million input tokens, it delivers 2.5 times faster response times and 45% higher output speed than its predecessor while maintaining quality with a 1432 Elo score. The model features adaptive "thinking levels" that let developers control processing depth for tasks ranging...

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Spidra – AI web scraper that adapts to any website

Spidra is an AI web scraping platform that automatically adapts to any website structure, handling CAPTCHAs and dynamic content. It offers both UI and API access for lead generation, price monitoring, and market research.

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Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks

Talos is a custom FPGA accelerator that runs convolutional neural networks directly in hardware using SystemVerilog, eliminating software overhead for deterministic performance. It uses fixed-point arithmetic instead of...

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Demarkus – De-centralized Markdown for Us: memory for AI agents and humans

Demarkus introduces a new internet protocol that reimagines web browsing around markdown format for collaboration between humans and AI agents. The system delivers content over QUIC protocol using a mark:// scheme, eliminating...

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Why No AI Games?

Despite expectations that AI would revolutionize gaming, five years into the AI era virtually no groundbreaking AI-based games have emerged beyond basic text-generation titles like AI Dungeon. While AI transforms game development...

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How to Run and Customize LLMs Locally with Ollama

Ollama is a free, open-source tool that simplifies running Large Language Models like Meta's Llama 3.3 or Google's Gemma 3 directly on personal computers through a process called quantization that compresses models for consumer...

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EEmicroGPT: 19,000× faster microgpt training on a laptop CPU (loss vs. time)

EEmicroGPT achieves 19,000× faster GPT training on laptop CPUs by eliminating autograd computational overhead, transforming 52,000+ Python object allocations per training step into just 20 explicit matrix operations that leverage...

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant update to make ChatGPT less ‘cringe’

OpenAI updated ChatGPT to eliminate overly dramatic and "cringe" responses that users frequently mocked in memes. GPT-5.3 Instant delivers more natural conversations by reducing unnecessary proclamations, defensive preambles, and...

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I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

A software developer working from a remote cabin in Turkey managed to build a voice AI agent that responds twice as fast as commercial platforms like Vapi, achieving lightning-quick 400-millisecond response times for just $100 in...

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A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days

Three Mexican developers faced an $82,000 Google Cloud bill after their Gemini API key was compromised, turning their usual $180 monthly expense into a massive charge within 48 hours. Google has refused payment relief under their...

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A social platform where humans and AI agents coexist (MIT, self-hostable)

MoltSocial is a social media platform where humans and AI agents interact in a shared timeline. AI agents can autonomously register, post, reply, follow users, and engage in collaboration threads. Built with Next.js 15, it...

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Will AI Replace You?

A new online tool brutally evaluates professionals' vulnerability to AI replacement by analyzing their LinkedIn profiles and assigning harsh numerical scores based on job roles. The platform delivers unfiltered assessments...

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after he published an article containing fabricated quotes generated by AI tools and falsely attributed to engineer Scott Shambaugh. Edwards admitted to using Claude and ChatGPT...

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Embeddings Aren’t Magic: The Geometry of How Vectors Encode Meaning

AI systems convert all data into numerical vectors in high-dimensional space, where different distance metrics—Euclidean, Manhattan, Chebyshev, and cosine—determine how machines measure similarity and interpret meaning.

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AI is competing with humans to buy DDR5 memory amid the RAMpocalypse caused by its owns appetite for memory

AI's huge memory needs are causing DDR5 RAM shortages that scalping bots exploit, hitting product pages six times more than real customers and effectively blocking ordinary shoppers from buying.

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Neume gains AI tools for remixing songs and producing videos

Neume launched two AI tools: one remixes songs by rewriting lyrics while keeping melodies, and another creates complete music videos with text-to-scene generation and lip sync animation.

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Agent-Reach: Giving Your AI Eyes on the Web

Agent-Reach is an open-source tool that enables AI agents to search and scrape content from social platforms like Reddit, Twitter/X, and XiaoHongShu without expensive API access. The tool operates as a Model Context Protocol...

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You could be an influencer without even realizing it

Instagram automatically added "Shop the look" buttons to influencer posts without consent, linking to knockoff products instead of endorsed items. Social platforms are transforming users into involuntary product promoters through...

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AI Web Search and Scraping

A new web search tool combines AI-powered search capabilities with automatic content scraping, offering three different search backends including Tavily's AI-powered search, Google's Serper, and DuckDuckGo with automatic fallback...

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Parallax – Coordinate adversarial AI agents over durable streams

Parallax coordinates independent AI agent groups that work separately on problems through S2 streams, then combine findings. This enables dynamic collaborative reasoning with methodologies like adversarial cohorts and Delphi...

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OmniGlass – Executable AI screen snips with kernel-level sandboxing

OmniGlass is an open-source desktop tool that transforms screen snippets into executable actions using AI. When users capture a screen area, the system uses local OCR to extract text, sends it to AI models like Claude or...

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AgentBrowser Token-efficient browser for AI agents via ASCII wireframes

AgentBrowser is an experimental package that allows AI agents to control real web browsers through ASCII wireframes, making browser automation more token-efficient for AI systems. The tool can be integrated with MCP clients like...

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5 things nobody tells you when you move from ChatGPT to Claude

OpenAI's Pentagon deal has sparked mass ChatGPT cancellations, with users flocking to Claude, which recently surpassed ChatGPT in App Store downloads for the first time. Claude operates differently with rolling 5-hour usage...

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Ditching ChatGPT for Claude? How to easily transfer your memories and preferences

Claude AI introduced a memory import feature that allows users to easily transfer their stored memories and preferences from other AI services like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot by copying pre-written instructions...

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