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You pay $20 a month for an AI chatbot. Then one afternoon it stops working the way it did that morning. There is no warning. There is no extra bill. The AI chatbot limit has arrived. What changed is the usage limit. Every major AI subscription has one, including the paid tiers. Hitting it does … Read more
Kuaishou says Kling 4.0 goes live in October. The company announced the model on September 28 and opened a limited early build of Kling 4.0 Flash the same day. Two numbers lead the release. Clips get twice as long. The top output format picks up high dynamic range. The list matters less than which parts … Read more
Chinese AI apps post user numbers that would embarrass most Silicon Valley launches. Whether you can install one, sign up and pay from the United States is a separate question. It breaks into three doors: the download, the account and the money. Most coverage skips the doors and talks about benchmarks. That is backwards for … Read more
Last December, a strange phone went on sale in China. It could open your apps, find the right buttons, tap them for you. Here was an AI assistant that could actually control your phone. Only 30,000 units existed. They sold out in 48 hours, and resellers soon asked around $1,110 for a phone that retailed … Read more
The apps you have probably never opened There is a quiet gap between what Americans think is happening in AI and what is actually happening. In the US, the names are ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Midjourney. In much of the rest of the world, a different set of apps leads. Most of them come from … Read more
A design task that runs $1.61 on GPT-6 Astra costs about 2.3 cents on DeepSeek’s new model. Same brief, same output, one bill sixty times smaller. That single number is the whole pitch. DeepSeek widened that gap on purpose, and it did it three days after teaching its chatbot to talk out loud. Vision is … Read more
Most of Google’s AI announcements feel like press-release theater — impressive on stage, forgotten by the time you close the tab. NotebookLM is the rare one that earned a permanent spot in my actual week. I didn’t go looking for it. A colleague dropped a 200-page report in my lap and dared me to summarize … Read more
DeepSeek dropped a new model yesterday. No warning. No teaser campaign. Just a quiet API update and a bunch of benchmark numbers that made me do a double take. Here’s the thing about DeepSeek: they always do this. You’re sitting there, minding your own business, and suddenly they launch something that makes everyone else look … Read more
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect much when I saw the announcement. Another vision model. Another API endpoint. Another “exp” tag that usually means “try it if you’re bored.” But then I actually read what this thing does. And I spent a couple hours poking at it. Now I’m sitting here writing this, which means … Read more
I’ve been quietly watching Tencent’s WorkBuddy for a few months. It’s not the flashiest AI tool out there, but the numbers are hard to ignore. Over 20 million desktop visits in June alone. That’s not nothing. Now they’re about to drop Hy4 into it. Here’s the short version: Tencent’s new flagship model, Hy4, was spotted … Read more