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Today in brief.
Coinbase cut its AI bill nearly in half while usage exploded
Coinbase dropped AI spend ~50% during exponential token growth by caching queries and routing the easy stuff to open-weight models - a playbook any builder can copy today.
🤖 AI
Anthropic's co-founder says AI will improve itself by 2028
Anthropic is openly recursive-self-improvement-pilled: a co-founder predicts that by end of 2028 you'll likely be able to tell an AI 'make a better version of yourself' and it'll do it autonomously.
🤖 AI
Build an agent that earns, spends, and runs a business - with real Stripe money
Nous Research's Hermes Agent hackathon (with Nvidia + Stripe) is testing whether builder-made agents can autonomously earn, pay, and run real operations - and the skills it teaches are the actual frontier for solo builders.
🤖 AI
Fable 5 is coming back next week - and Asian labs already filled the gap
Per Axios, Anthropic's Fable 5 limits could lift as soon as this week - but the bigger story is that during the 15-day blackout, Asian labs shipped Mythos-like models to grab the customers nobody could serve.
🤖 AI
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of mining Claude with 25,000 accounts
Anthropic says Alibaba ran 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude's outputs and reverse-engineer its capabilities, defying US export controls.
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