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Gemini 4 Hydrogen: $1.50/$7.50 and When to Drop 3.8 Flash
Google DeepMind shipped Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12 at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens, flat across a 1M context, and says it edges Argon 51 to 50.
AI Shopping Advice Cited Fake Stores in Up to 15% of Answers
A Podqi study of 6,795 chatbot answers found Perplexity surfaced risky retail sites in 15% of replies, ChatGPT 8% and Gemini 4%, across 151 brands.
Nemotron 3.5 Open Weights: Which Size Fits Your GPU?
NVIDIA put Nemotron 3.5 on Hugging Face, from a 120B multimodal model to a 4B edge variant. The VRAM math decides which one you can serve.
Is the Cheaper LLM Actually Cheaper? Five Checks With Code
Retries hide in your bill. On a 150-row benchmark, one cheap model cost nearly twice the baseline per success. Five checks to run before you swap.
Gemini Robotics 2.5 Hits 96% on Mercedes Lines — No API Yet
DeepMind's new VLA model ran Apptronik's Apollo 2 on active Mercedes-Benz lines at 96% success. There is no public API, no price and no GA date.
Qwen Code 1.0: Alibaba Open-Sources Its Agent Harness
Alibaba folded Qoder's agent harness into Qwen Code 1.0 under Apache 2.0. What shipped, the preview-branch caveat, and who should actually care.
Meta Muse Lands on Apple Watch and Wear OS: What You Get
Meta brought its Muse AI agent to Apple Watch and Wear OS with voice, text and dictation. What the wrist app does, what the plans cost, and where it works.
Gemini 4 Carbon Pricing vs Claude Fable 5.2: The Real Math
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is now generally available at $2/$10 per million tokens until November 30 — a quarter of Claude Fable 5.2's rate.
Apple Charges $49.99 for Extra Apple Intelligence in Logic Pro
Logic Pro is the first Apple app to sell an Intelligence Usage Pack. It costs $49.99 one time, expires in 12 months and skips Family Sharing.
Prompt Ensembles Only Beat Self-Consistency When Errors Differ
A simulation puts five varied prompts at 21/24 and five samples of one prompt at 15/24 on the same budget. The gain vanishes when errors correlate.
Anthropic Buys $3.4B of Gas Turbines for 1.7GW of Power
Anthropic is buying Caterpillar generators rated up to 1.7GW, breaking from its rent-don't-own pattern as turbine backlogs stretch into the 2030s.
CLAUDE.md Edits Break Prompt Caching: A 10x Worked Example
A new guide puts CLAUDE.md at the front of the cache prefix: edit it mid-session and the same 4,000 tokens cost about 10x more across 40 turns.
Apple's Agentic Siri: What Gurman Says Lands in iOS 27.3
Gurman reports Siri gets fine-grained control of Apple's own apps in iOS 27.3, third-party apps in spring. What's checkable and what Apple hasn't confirmed.
