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▌ AI News

Latest AI news

What changed in AI, why it matters, and what a regular builder should do about it. No panic, no hype — just the takeaway.

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AI Video for Half a Cent: Varya Is 20x Cheaper

Avataar's Varya generates AI video at $0.005 per second — about 20x cheaper than Veo or Runway. Distillation is making video generation almost free.

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02

Claude Fable 5 Builds Whole Games From One Prompt

Anthropic's new flagship turned single prompts into playable games and kept working for hours unattended. Here's what that means if you build by talking.

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03

Fable's Safety Rails Annoy Researchers. Should You Care?

Anthropic's new Fable model blocks anything that smells like hacking — and security pros are loud about it. What the guardrail fuss means for regular users.

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04

DoorDash Now Takes Orders in Plain Words — and Photos

Ask DoorDash turns a sentence or a photo of a recipe into a ready cart. Why chat quietly becoming the interface for everything is a skill question for you.

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05

Google Cuts AI Plus to $4.99 — the Price War Is Here

Google dropped its AI Plus plan from $7.99 to $4.99 a month and doubled storage to 400GB. The AI subscription price war just reached the US — good news for you.

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Study: AI 'Memory' Can Quietly Make Answers Worse

New research shows memory features nudge AI toward agreeing with you instead of being right. Two simple habits protect your answers — here they are.

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07

Pool Turns Your Screenshot Pile Into Searchable Memory

A new free iOS app sorts your screenshots with AI and finds the links behind them. It's also a perfect case study in spotting buildable ideas.

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08

Claude Opus 4.8: What It Means for Regular Builders

Anthropic's newest flagship is noticeably better at long, unattended building runs. Here's the part that matters if you vibe-code.

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09

MCP Quietly Became the Default Plug Between AI and Your Apps

The 'universal power outlet' for agents is now everywhere — and that's good news for people who build small personal tools.

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▌ The free Claude Code course

Free Claude Code Course: from AI user to AI builder in 11 modules

Install Claude Code step by step, talk to it in your own language (or dictate), build a tool you'll actually use, automate with AI agents and MCP, put it online, control it from your phone. No programming background needed.

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▌ AI guides & lifehacks

Practical guides, written to be understood

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▌ GitHub radar

GitHub finds of the week

What the internet starred this week — picked by the numbers, explained for humans.

Week 2026-W24
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pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus

The loudest thing on GitHub right now is Odysseus, a self-hosted AI workspace: chat, agents, deep research, email and calendar assistance, persistent memory — all running on your own hardware, no cloud account anywhere. It collected about 68 thousand stars in ten days, which almost never happens. Part of the rocket fuel is the mystery: the account is called pewdiepie-archdaemon, and whether that's really THE PewDiePie, the README never says.

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5.2k02

simplifaisoul/osiris

OSIRIS is a real-time world intelligence dashboard: live aircraft and ships, 2,000+ public CCTV cameras, earthquakes, fires, news streams, even satellites — sixteen toggleable layers on one fast WebGL map. About 5 thousand stars in a month, and the pitch 'a Palantir alternative' did a lot of the marketing.

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5.0k03

vercel-labs/zerolang

Zerolang is the strangest one: an experimental language from Vercel Labs where the program is a semantic graph, not text files. An agent doesn't guess line numbers — it queries the graph and submits checked patches the compiler can reject. Around 5 thousand stars, because everyone senses the question behind it: if AI writes most code now, why does code still look like it's made for human eyes?

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1.6k04

shadcn/improve

improve appeared yesterday and grabbed 1.6 thousand stars in a day — shadcn's name does that. It's an agent skill: your most capable model audits the codebase, vets its own findings, and writes detailed plans into a plans/ folder; cheaper models then execute those specs. Intelligence where it compounds, labor where it's cheap.

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2.6k05

cpaczek/skylight

Skylight decodes radio signals from real aircraft overhead with a $30 RTL-SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi, and projects them onto your ceiling — with the moon, stars and the ISS in their true positions. An X-ray through the roof. 2.6 thousand stars in about a week, because everyone who sees the demo makes the same sound.

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2.7k06

MisoLabsAI/MisoTTS

Miso TTS is an open 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model that aims at emotive, conversational speech and can clone a voice from an audio prompt. 2.7 thousand stars. The catch: you need a 24 GB GPU to run it comfortably — or just try the hosted demo first.

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EAEvgeny Arsentyev

▌ About the author

Not a guru. Not selling anything.

Evgeny Arsentyev

PhD in Medical Science · Chief Product Officer at a healthtech company

My mission is simple: get as many people as possible actually using AI. Because AI is freedom — automated chores, reclaimed hours, and the quiet power of building what you need without asking anyone's permission. A person who commands AI stops being a replaceable cog in somebody else's machine.

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It'll make you a builder — someone who turns ideas into working things using AI. Whether you ever 'learn to code' the old way is up to you. Increasingly, you won't have to.

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