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Topics
Every story we publish joins a topic. Each topic page is a running timeline: start with the guides, then follow the news as it happened.
Claude Code
Every Claude Code release, feature, and workflow we've covered: hooks, subagents, plugins, pricing and limits, in one running timeline.
132 stories · latest Oct 9
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI Codex news and guides: the Codex CLI, cloud agents, IDE extensions, pricing and limits, tracked over time.
29 stories · latest Oct 6
AI Coding Tools
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and the rest of the AI coding tool market: releases, pricing changes, comparisons, and workflows.
110 stories · latest Oct 9
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
MCP news, spec changes, servers, and security issues: our running coverage of the Model Context Protocol.
36 stories · latest Oct 4
Agent Skills
Agent Skills news and guides: SKILL.md, plugins, and how skills spread across Claude, Codex, and other agents.
50 stories · latest Oct 8
Decision Models
Decision models explained and tracked: Jev, Perplexity's pplx-decider, OpenAI's Decisions API, and open-weight alternatives.
34 stories · latest Oct 8
Anthropic and Claude
Anthropic and Claude news in one timeline: model releases, product launches, pricing and limits, research, and policy.
315 stories · latest Oct 9
OpenAI and ChatGPT
OpenAI and ChatGPT news in one timeline: GPT model releases, product launches, pricing, research, and company news.
278 stories · latest Oct 9
Google Gemini and DeepMind
Google AI news in one timeline: Gemini models and apps, DeepMind research, Gemma open models, and Google Cloud AI.
117 stories · latest Oct 9
Meta AI
Meta AI news: Llama and Muse models, Meta AI apps, research, and the company's AI strategy.
50 stories · latest Oct 8
xAI and Grok
xAI and Grok news: model releases, product changes, infrastructure, and company news.
56 stories · latest Oct 9
Microsoft, Apple and Amazon AI
AI news from Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon: models, assistants, devices, cloud AI, and partnerships.
53 stories · latest Oct 9
Open-Weight Models
Open-weight model releases tracked over time: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Mistral, and more, with benchmarks and how to run them.
195 stories · latest Oct 9
Local AI
Running AI on your own hardware: local LLMs, on-device models, Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, and Apple Silicon.
53 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Agents
AI agent news and guides: agent harnesses, computer use, multi-agent systems, memory, and real deployments.
218 stories · latest Oct 8
AI Safety and Alignment
AI safety and alignment coverage: lab safety research, interpretability, evaluations of risky behavior, and the AGI debate.
89 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Policy and Regulation
AI policy and regulation news: laws, bans, export controls, government AI programs, and court cases, tracked over time.
102 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Security
AI security coverage: prompt injection, agent security, model-assisted attacks and defense, privacy, and content provenance.
77 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Chips and Infrastructure
AI hardware and infrastructure news: NVIDIA and other chips, data centers, power, inference infrastructure, and supply chains.
115 stories · latest Oct 9
Robotics and Physical AI
Robotics and physical AI news: humanoid robots, robot foundation models, world models, and embodied AI research.
61 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Benchmarks and Evals
AI benchmark and evaluation coverage: new benchmarks, leaderboard results, SWE-bench, and how to read model scores.
36 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Research
AI research explained: notable papers on training, reinforcement learning, reasoning, and AI for science, in plain language.
70 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Image, Video and Voice
Generative media news: image and video generation models, voice AI, multimodal models, and creative tools.
81 stories · latest Oct 9
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering guides and news: techniques, structured output, prompt libraries, and how prompting changes with each model.
52 stories · latest Oct 2
Learning AI and Careers
Learning AI and AI careers: beginner guides, AI in education, jobs and the future of work, and AI literacy.
90 stories · latest Oct 1
AI Tools and Apps
AI tools and apps tracked over time: Perplexity, OpenRouter, developer tools, open-source projects, and consumer AI products.
172 stories · latest Oct 9
AI Industry and Business
The business of AI: enterprise adoption, pricing and usage limits, startups, deals, and AI economics.
50 stories · latest Oct 6