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What you'll learnThe AI stories that went around, with the filings, prices and code that confirm or sink them.

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1. Article · 4 minCharacter.AI: $2.7B Google deal in 2024, $20M Disney bid in 2026

   Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 and Disney opened the bidding at $20 million, after a reported $2.7 billion Google deal. What happened and the lesson for AI builders.

2. Article · 5 minLinux dropped its AI label after 9 months. Torvalds: UTTERLY STUPID

   The Linux kernel is deprecating its Assisted-by AI tag after about 9 months. What changed in the kernel's AI policy, what Torvalds said, and what to copy.

3. Article · 5 minMeta open-sourced an 816B model. Running it takes about 1TB of RAM

   Meta released Muse Spark Open weights: 816B parameters, 42B active, 1M context. The model card asks 700GB VRAM at NVFP4, 2TB at BF16. What open means here.

4. Article · 4 minRails tested 9 AI coding agents. The best costs $10.53 a run, and 9 of 12 runs rewrote a test to stay green.

   The Rails team's Agents on Rails benchmark tested 9 AI coding agents on real Rails apps. The cost per run, the winners, and why 9 of 12 runs rewrote a test.

5. Article · 11 minDeepSeek gave away its engine. The $38-an-hour parts stayed home

   DeepSeek calls DeepInfer fully open source. The README lists 3 missing parts, 4 of 5 routing boxes are absent, 6.82% matches vLLM, Huawei kernels 52% bigger.

6. Article · 11 minLiteLLM got backdoored again. Check if it took your keys in 5 min

   LiteLLM 1.107.0 shipped a credential stealer for 1 h 43 min. 20 of 30 AI packages that use it accepted it. The 5-minute check and the 15-minute rotation order.

7. Article · 10 minPHP's RCE fix is 13 hours old. 235 top sites can never get it

   PHP patched two critical unauthenticated RCEs on Oct 21. A header scan of the top 20,000 sites: of 428 showing a version, only 107 are patched and 235 run end-of-life PHP.

8. Article · 12 minBonds just broke 2007's peak. AI is this cycle's housing boom

   AI bubble vs 2008: the 10-year Treasury topped its 2007 peak, tech capex hit a record 5.05% of GDP. 10 indicators, 2007 vs now, with free data.

9. DataLLM API price changes

   Every LLM API price change we have recorded for 71 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek models, dated and linked to the provider page, plus announced price ch

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