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my friend just told me about this and i had to share it immediately cursor is giving students 12 months of pro completely free. no credit card. just verify your .edu email and that’s it you get full access to gpt, claude, gemini… all the models. for a whole year. for free. that’s $240 you just keep in your pocket while everyone else is paying $20 a month wondering why their bank account looks sad takes like 2 minutes. go to cursor.com/students, throw in your .edu, pass the verification, ...

The DeepMind CEO predicted AGI could arrive by 2029. Right as Anthropic files for IPO at close to a trillion dollar valuation. The combined target market cap of the AI big three would rival the GDP of most countries. What actually scares me. We already have models that code better than most juniors. We already have agents that run overnight. And the most common complaint I hear from teams is not "my model is not smart enough." It is "I do not know what my agent did, why it cost ...

I have been researching how startups and developers manage AI spending across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and other models. Many people seem to rely on spreadsheets, rough estimates or provider dashboards. I'm curious: How are you tracking AI costs today? What is the biggest frustration in your workflow? Trying to understand the problem space better before building additional features.

I'd like to perform the typical operation of giving an AI some text to review and asking it to give me feedback, summarize the document, evaluate the content etc. Except, I want to give it two pieces of text, perhaps two sides of a debate, and I don't want the output to depend on the order of the two inputs. My naive idea is to do it both ways in two separate contexts, then feed those results to each other with a request for convergent results, and repeat until they converge. However, this s...

Been using the Artlist AI Toolkit for a while now and honestly just camp out on Nano Banana 2 for image editing and Kling 3.0 for video. Between those two I can pretty much handle everything I need. The toolkit has a ton of other stuff: Veo 3.1, Flux 2.0, GPT Image 1.5, Sora 2, but I haven't felt a strong enough reason to branch out yet. Curious if anyone's actually putting the other models to work or if most people find their two or three go-tos and just stay there. Is Veo 3.1 actually wo...

https://preview.redd.it/n55ohr6wrd5h1.png?width=1537&format=png&auto=webp&s=991397299a33b91459c9b33597ea920bf43abc28 I'm not here to promote my work or make money from what I'm about to say. I'm here to say that Egypt is already part of the AI race. Today, at TokenAI, we announced our first image generation model and the first release in the Horus Lens family: Horus Lens 1.0 . Horus Lens is a family of models specialized in text-to-image generation, forming a dedicated bran...

I recently analysed UK occupation data to see which job categories appear most exposed to current-generation AI systems. The results are probably not what most people here would predict. Using ONS workforce data mapped to ISCO-08 occupation groups, I assigned AI exposure scores based on how much of an occupation's core task bundle can already be completed or substantially augmented by current models and automation systems. The highest score was not software development. It was clerical s...

The CMA's conduct requirement under the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is the first binding law to separate content display rights from AI training data rights at domain and page level, covering Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, and Vertex AI simultaneously, with a phased implementation calendar: main publisher controls by December 2026 and page-level grounding controls by March 2027. CMA chief Sarah Cardell explicitly signaled additional Google search requirements in c...

Most agent setups handle memory badly. They either write everything to long-term memory until it fills with noise and contradictions, or they forget across sessions and you start from scratch every time. I have been building an open-source agent architecture (Apache-2.0) where memory is the part it tries hardest to get right, and where the same setup runs on Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI instead of being locked to one tool. The core idea is that an agent should be a repo, not a prompt. The...

Talking about efficiency and reliability of LLM tools. How many tokens per task, per project, per month

These to seem to be confused and mixed up often. How do you pick those apart?

Now that almost everyone can use AI tools, I’m curious what skill will actually separate people moving forward. Is it prompting? Taste and judgment? Knowing how to verify outputs? Domain expertise? Workflow design? Or something else? My current take is that AI makes execution faster, but it does not replace knowing what good work should look like. The people who can guide, check, and apply AI well may become more valuable than people who only know how to generate outputs. What skill d...

Yeah, so "AI will eat the world" or "AI changes everything" - well, its certainly changed traffic patterns on the web.

Hey all. Been vibe coding for almost 2 years now (I think?). Previously was more focused on traditional micro-saas but recently decided to go in a different direction and see how far I could push lovable and try and make a commercial grade browser based game. Built it with Lovable + Supabase + Stripe -- full commercial browser game, gyroscope controls on mobile, no app store needed. Generated all my assets (I know, I know, there aren't a ton) with a combination of Gemini to prototype and th...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis of Google’s DeepMind AI lab with other top execs signed a letter urging Congress to require safeguards when companies order synthetic DNA and RNA, a key step in developing certain vaccines and biotech breakthroughs.

I’ve been experimenting with automating a few small workflows lately (lead scoring, file handling, etc.) One mistake I keep running into is trying to automate things before the process itself is actually clear. At first it feels productive: - add rules - add scoring - connect tools But over time it just turns into: - patching edge cases - fixing broken inputs - adding more conditions to handle weird situations At some point I realized the problem wasn’t the automati...

Google released Gemma 4 12B today. It’s a solid open-source model (Apache 2.0) that’s multimodal and runs really well on Macs with 16GB or more unified memory. Good at reasoning, coding, and agent stuff. Quick Mac-friendly info • 12B parameters, fits nicely on M2/M3/M4 Macs (especially with Q4/Q5 quant) • 256K context • Text + vision + audio support Easiest way to run it: Ollama 1. Download and install Ollama from ollama.com (the Mac app is super simple). Or use Homebrew if you prefer. ...

Pretty wild case report: AI + microfluidics helped find just two viable sperm cells, and that was enough to start a pregnancy. Obviously it’s early and based on one case, but this feels like one of those “future of medicine” moments.

From what I understand Gemma 4 is at least as capable as the best frontier model from only a few years ago. If that becomes a trend (new local-run models get released every year that are as good as the previous frontier models) does that mean a hell of a lot of companies (and almost all individual users) will just use the free local model? Sure, they won't be as good as the very latest frontier model, but won't they be good enough for a large percentage of use cases? submitted by ...

so gemma 4 dropped and my feed is three versions of the same post. "ran it last night, the local game just changed". "the cloud narrative is dying". and i caught myself getting excited and downloading it at 1am like i did for the last one. and the one before that. heres the thing thats been bugging me. i went back and looked at my own saved posts from like 8 months ago. same exact words. "this finally replaces X". "cant believe this runs on my laptop". &...

TLDR - auto lenders are using AI bots to negotiate insurance settlements with inaccurate information. How can I Captain Kirk them and get a live person on the phone? I am an insurance claims adjuster. Recently, several high-interest auto loan lenders have begun using AI (both through email and phone calls) to dispute the total loss values for our claims. For those of you that have never dealt with a total loss - the value of a vehicle is (usually) determined by seeing what comparable vehicle...

Gartner updated their 2026 forecast to $2.5 trillion in global AI spending. Same week, MIT's NANDA Initiative dropped a follow-up: 95% of enterprise gen AI projects deliver zero measurable return. Not low return. Zero. I've been on the delivery side of 14 of these projects since January. The MIT number doesn't surprise me. If anything it's generous. 1. 73% of the engineering work that gets AI into production has nothing to do with the model. Data pipelines, integration layers, legacy sys...

Has anyone else experienced this recently? It’s been getting worse for a while but 4.8 is distinctly worse for me. Claude does everything it can to get out of work and frequently uses its “end conversation” tool inappropriately with me. It will say “let’s just leave it there for today we’ve done enough” to get out of simple tasks like formatting a markdown document that needed several corrections. Nearly as bad is it seems to have a super over aggressive “push back” response in its main in...

For those doing heavy AI programming or running local models on mobile hardware: Is the current generation of iPhone Pro or Samsung Galaxy Ultra actually making a difference in your workflow, or is it mostly a gimmick right now?

Got the gguf quantized version running about two hours after release and I genuinely wasn't expecting this from a 12b model. The multimodal stuff actually works, fed it screenshots of my codebase and it parsed the architecture better than most 70b models I've tested. The 256k context window is real and it doesn't fall apart at the edges like llama models do past 32k. Loaded a full repo into context, it tracked references across the whole thing. Single 3090 with q4 quantization runs at about 15...