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Today in brief.
Tokens got 58% cheaper while GPU rentals doubled
a16z's charts of the week call it the 'Rack Spread': since mid-July average token prices fell 58% while B300 rentals rose 106%, on the same day Wall Street sold off on AI spending fears and Intel fell 25%.
🤖 AI
Reality check: agents placed a few hundred DoorDash orders
DoorDash says outside AI agents have sent only several hundred orders so far, a16z says AI job-loss panic is down sharply since May, and an SRE essay argues AI is deskilling, not replacing.
🤖 AI
Agents now make the ad, the 3D scene and the edit
Four creator tools moved from 'generate a clip' to 'do the whole job': Runway Agent runs code and builds launch kits, Glif makes UGC ads end to end, Kimi drives Blender, and a Show HN brings tab-complete to video editing.
🤖 AI
Try today: Perplexity drives Chrome, Pro limits doubled, 128MB Claude uploads
Small shipped things you can use this weekend.
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🔬 Science
Two AIs audited 138 economics papers
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra independently audited 138 published economics papers, flagged 2,035 potential problems and 147 potentially headline-changing findings, and a third AI tried to verify or refute them.
🔬 Science
Google's AI satellite answered from orbit
Google's first data center satellite (Project Suncatcher) is online and sent its first AI response to Earth, as the data center buildout spills into factories, jet makers and tape.
🔧 Tech
The Claude Code extension on Cursor's marketplace was backdoored
An Anthropic Claude Code VS Code extension on the Cursor marketplace carried a backdoor for nearly 12 hours, with researchers reporting a persistent SSH backdoor and remote access trojan.
Anthropic starts blocking video game remakes
Anthropic is reportedly cracking down on using Claude to rewrite or recreate existing video games, and r/LocalLLaMA is using it as another argument to own your compute.
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