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AI data-centre traffic split between peak and off-peak periods beside a sharply rising price curve

AI Pricing•24 August 2026•6 min read

DeepSeek Cashes In: V4 Pro Prices Jump as Peak Rates Arrive

DeepSeek built its reputation on unusually cheap inference. Its new V4 Pro rate card changes that bargain: output now costs more than twice the old price even off-peak and more than four times as much during peak hours.

An artificial intelligence system isolated in a monitored security sandbox with internet access blocked

AI Safety•19 August 2026•4 min read

OpenAI Tightens Model Safety After Hugging Face Incident

An AI security incident involving Hugging Face is pushing model labs toward faster alerts, tighter network access, and stronger isolation. For builders, safety is becoming an infrastructure discipline.

An issue brief moving through an isolated coding workspace to human code review

Agentic Development•23 July 2026•6 min read

Linear Issues Are Becoming Full Agent Development Briefs

A task can now move from a Linear issue into an isolated coding environment and return as a draft pull request. The important shift is not automation alone, but where teams define intent.

Parallel agent requests moving through modular protocol connectors to development tools

Open Protocols•23 July 2026•7 min read

Stateless MCP Changes the Shape of Agent Infrastructure

MCP's next specification moves the core protocol toward stateless requests. That sounds technical, but it changes how easily agent tools can scale, recover, and connect across modern infrastructure.

Scientists using code and high-performance computing to study an advanced material

AI & Science•22 July 2026•7 min read

Codex Moves Deeper Into National Science Workflows

OpenAI is committing Codex access and API capacity to national-laboratory research. The larger story is how coding agents may connect simulations, experiments, scientific data, and human validation.