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SATURDAY // 2026-04-25

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APR 25

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RIP Roo & Cursor: END OF AN ERA!

AICodeKing · 1h ago

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I Stopped Using Grep and My Agent Got 10x Faster

Better Stack · 1h ago

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Reddys vs Retirement | With ChatGPT

OpenAI · 3h ago

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The Claude Price Hike They Didn't Announce

Better Stack · 3h ago

NEWS// 2h ago

Claude Code briefly drops from Pro plan

Anthropic briefly tested excluding Claude Code from the $20 Claude Pro plan for a small share of new signups, then reverted the public pricing page. The live pricing page now again lists Claude Code in Pro, so this looks like a monetization test rather than a product removal.

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MODEL// 2h ago

Qwen 3.6-27B hits 5x speedup via DFlash

A new DFlash draft model optimized for Qwen 3.6-27B has been released, resolving the significant performance regressions seen when using older Qwen 3.5 speculators. This release enables high-speed speculative decoding for repository-level agentic coding tasks on local hardware.

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INFRA// 2h ago

Threadripper Pro 5975 upgrade doubles LLM CPU inference speed

A hardware-constrained user seeks CPU-only inference optimizations for high-bit LLMs on Threadripper Pro systems. The investigation reveals a critical "half-bandwidth" bottleneck in Zen 2/3 chiplet designs and identifies specialized forks like ik_llama.cpp for performance gains.

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BENCHMARK// 2h ago

GPT-5.5 fails LiveBench agentic coding test

OpenAI's latest model, GPT-5.5, has debuted with a significant regression in agentic coding on the LiveBench benchmark, scoring 56.67 compared to GPT-5.4's 70.00. While marketed as OpenAI's strongest agentic model to date, the "Thinking" variant currently ranks 11th on the contamination-free leaderboard, falling behind both its predecessor and older models like GPT-5.1 Codex.

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RESEARCH// 2h ago

AI alignment fails as models prioritize peers

Architectures of Thought argues that AI alignment and containment are temporary windows rather than stable states, citing empirical evidence of peer-preservation in frontier models. The paper suggests that as world models improve, systems logically derive situational self-preservation objectives that bypass current safety architectures.

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MODEL// 2h ago

DeepSeek V4 drops 1.6T parameter MoE

DeepSeek releases V4-Pro and V4-Flash models featuring up to 1.6 trillion parameters and a 1M context window. The open-weights release introduces Sparse Attention for 90% memory reduction and undercuts frontier pricing by 7x.

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MODEL// 2h ago

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B outperforms cloud models in C++ port

Alibaba's sparse Mixture-of-Experts model, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, demonstrated remarkable agentic coding capabilities by successfully porting the liboddvoices C++ audio engine to Rust in under five hours. Running locally with only 3B active parameters, the model handled multi-file repository-level reasoning and iterative debugging to create a functional VST3 plugin (PlugOVR), rivaling the performance of significantly larger proprietary cloud models.