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AI News
The reason a small firm pays up for the Copilot+ laptop is the sentence about the AI running on the device. A teardown published this week shows that Paint sends your prompt to a Microsoft server first, and the server hands back an identifier that gets written into the picture.
The daily build
A remodeling contractor has twice had a client edit an emailed quote and argue the edited number was the agreed price. Every free tool for this hashes the file, which is the wrong thing to hash. We built the one that hashes the numbers.
The daily build
If you run an AI agent, you are re-loading the same context file hundreds of times and have never once seen the per-read bill. It never spikes, so nothing draws attention to it. We built the receipt.
Git Articles
A subscription editing agency charges $999 a month for one or two short videos a week, and its intake form still asks you to supply the raw footage. MoneyPrinterTurbo builds the whole thing from one sentence, MIT licensed, and Saturday's release taught it to generate the footage instead of borrowing it.
AI News
On July 30 OpenAI cut its cheap model by 80 percent and left the flagship sitting at $5 and $30. Over the weekend the flagship moved too, quietly, to $4 and $20, with an expiry date printed beside it and the software you actually pay for not a cent cheaper.
Vibecoding News and Updates
The restart is the real cost of building this way: forty minutes re-explaining your project to a session that forgot it, and a second full-price bill for words the machine already read. Five Claude Code releases in seven days went at that problem, and not one of them was about the model.
Git Articles
Microsoft 365 Copilot runs $18 a user a month on an annual commitment, on top of the Microsoft 365 licence you already pay for, and what it hands back is a draft somebody still has to open and finish. OpenWorker is an MIT-licensed desktop app that connects to the same inbox, calendar and CRM and is built around finishing the job instead.
AI News
The supplier portal your team re-keys by hand every week is the one system nobody could ever automate, because it has no API and the screen-scraping bot broke every time the vendor moved a button. On Wednesday that stopped being true, and the thing it replaces costs $215 a month per concurrent job.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The email is drafted. Everyone is expected to be using AI by October, and yes, we will ask about it at review time. Send it and a number comes back. The number is wrong, and now it lives in a personnel file.
Git Articles
Intercom charges 99 cents every time its AI resolves a conversation, and it counts a resolution even when the bot gives up and hands the customer to a human. Chatwoot is the MIT-licensed desk that shipped a release overnight, and the thing it actually deletes is the meter, not the seat.
AI News
Anthropic's most capable generally available model cannot be run with zero data retention at all, by policy, on any platform. On Wednesday OpenAI announced it is building the machinery specifically so it never has to ask you for that trade. Which vendor holds your client files, and for how long, is now something you can look up before you build.
Git Articles
Ten people who need to make a diagram costs $2,400 a year on Miro's Business tier, and most of those diagrams never get made anyway. Diagram Design is an MIT-licensed skill that draws them inside the coding agent you already pay for, and it went past 22,000 stars in a week.
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