DeepSeek R1: Open Source AI Matches o1 at 95% Lower Cost
DeepSeek R1 matches OpenAI o1 benchmarks at $2.19 vs $60 per million tokens. MIT license, distilled models, 79.8% AIME score. Released January 20, ...
LEGO Smart Brick: 4.1mm ASIC – Smallest CES 2026 Chip
LEGO unveiled the Smart Brick at CES 2026—a 4.1mm ASIC chip inside a standard 2x4 ...
AI Inference Costs: 55% of Cloud Spending in 2026
2026 marks a historic shift: AI inference workloads consume 55% of cloud spending ($37.5B), surpassing ...
Google Gemini on TV: CES 2026 AI Living Room Takeover
Google announced Gemini AI for Google TV at CES 2026 with voice control, Photos AI, ...
Sergey Brin Unretirement: AI Pulled Him Back to Google
Sergey Brin called his 2019 retirement a disaster. The Google co-founder was "spiraling" without work ...
xAI Raises $20B, Burns $1B/Month – Nvidia Bets Big
Elon Musk's xAI raised $20B yesterday from Nvidia and others, but burns $1B monthly. Here's why only 3-4 companies can afford frontier AI.
Developer Skills Decay in 2.5 Years: Learning Crisis
McKinsey and General Catalyst executives declared this week that the era of “learn once, work ...
Opus 4.5 Crosses AI Agent Threshold: 80% SWE-Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 hit 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified—first above 80%. Google engineer: Claude Code built ...
Boring Tech Stack: Why Devs Ditch Kubernetes for SQLite
A Jan 2026 manifesto argues devs should ditch Kubernetes for SQLite. With $200B cloud waste ...
AMD Ryzen AI 400: Lisa Su’s First CES Keynote Jan 2026
AMD CEO Lisa Su delivered AMD's first CES keynote on Jan 5, 2026, unveiling Ryzen ...