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Free unlimited AI API with Puter.js: Claude, GPT, Gemini & 500+ models without API keys

Free unlimited AI API with Puter.js: Claude, GPT, Gemini & 500+ models without API keys

Discover Puter, a free, open-source cloud platform that lets you use 500+ AI models like Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and more directly from your fronte…

DeepSeek V4, OpenCode, and Superpowers: why this open-source stack feels insane

DeepSeek V4, OpenCode, and Superpowers: why this open-source stack feels insane

DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro have landed with a 1M-token context window and serious potential for open-source AI. Here’s how they perform in real coding workflows …

Top AI trends from 100 interviews: inside nWave and the future of AI-assisted development

Top AI trends from 100 interviews: inside nWave and the future of AI-assisted development

AI can already write production-quality code, but that doesn’t make developers obsolete. This article breaks down how tools like nWave re-center our work on und…

Imagen 2.0 in ChatGPT: web-aware, multilingual, and shockingly smart image generation

Imagen 2.0 in ChatGPT: web-aware, multilingual, and shockingly smart image generation

Imagen 2.0 is OpenAI’s biggest leap in image generation yet, bringing web search, a new ‘thinking mode’, accurate text in many languages, and production-ready d…

Google quietly released a free AI video generator – and it can make full-length videos

Google quietly released a free AI video generator – and it can make full-length videos

Google has rolled out a powerful AI video generator inside Google Workspace that can turn prompts into full, polished videos for free—at least for now. Here’s h…

I tested the new Odysseus local AI workspace (free and self-hosted)

I tested the new Odysseus local AI workspace (free and self-hosted)

Odysseus is a new open-source AI workspace that runs entirely on your own hardware, combining local models, cloud LLMs, agents, deep research, notes, and even a…

Claude Opus 4.8 is a beast, but its honesty raises big questions

Claude Opus 4.8 is a beast, but its honesty raises big questions

Claude Opus 4.8 is one of the strongest coding and agentic AI models available today, with major upgrades in reliability, long-context reasoning, and workflow t…

The AI delusion: why CEOs still don’t get it

The AI delusion: why CEOs still don’t get it

AI isn’t the real problem—our broken version of capitalism is. Eric Ries argues that financial “gravity” is pushing companies to use AI for extraction and cost-…

Anthropic’s Mythos 1 is coming: why this model could rewrite cybersecurity

Anthropic’s Mythos 1 is coming: why this model could rewrite cybersecurity

Anthropic’s Mythos 1 model is quietly moving from restricted research tool to real-world product, after uncovering tens of thousands of critical software vulner…

The 20 best AI apocalypse movies of all time, ranked

The 20 best AI apocalypse movies of all time, ranked

From HAL 9000 to Skynet and beyond, these 20 AI apocalypse movies show just how wrong our smartest creations can go. Here’s a ranked guide to the most chilling,…