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  1. AI Engineering from Scratch: The 49K-Star Open Source Curriculum That Teaches You to Build AI, Not Just Use It

    ai-engineering-from-scratch by Rohit Ghumare went from zero to 49,000 GitHub stars in 5 months — the fastest-growing AI curriculum on the internet. 511 lessons, 20 …

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  2. The NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier: AI Agents Closed 81.7% of the Human Gap — But Couldn't Invent Anything New

    Prime Intellect ran the largest open experiment in autonomous AI research: 18 frontier models (Fable 5, Opus 5, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, DeepSeek V4 Pro...) executed ~10,000 …

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  3. She Found a Bricked Cricut in E-Waste and Unlocked It with a $1 Raspberry Pi Chip

    Cricut remotely deactivates machines — for warranty replacements, for on-selling, sometimes just for loaning to a friend. When Australian hacker xssfox found a locked …

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  4. DeepSeek Vision API: The $0.22/M-Token Vision Model That Uses 10x Less KV Cache

    DeepSeek's deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp brings vision to the V4-Flash line: a 284B-parameter MoE model (13B active) that bills images at just $0.22 per million input …

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  5. Claude Code Wrote a macOS Driver for an HP Printer That Never Had One: A 4-Hour Reverse-Engineering Odyssey

    The HP Laser 1008a is a rebadged Samsung host-based printer that speaks a proprietary raster language (SPL3), ships no macOS driver, and supports no AirPrint. In one …

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  6. Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B+: Why a Payments Company Paid 200x Revenue for an AI Router

    Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, the AI model routing marketplace, for more than $7-8 billion — a 5x jump from its May valuation and 140-200x its ~$50M annualized revenue. …

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