#AI Tools

OpenAI Codex Micro macro pad with 13 mechanical keys and RGB lighting on a dark backgroundHardware

How to Set Up Codex Micro: What Every Key, Dial, and Joystick Should Do

Codex Micro costs $230 with 32 icon keycaps included. Setup is where it earns its place on your desk - here is what to map to each key, joystick, and dial.

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Substack Pangram Ai Detection Newsletters 2026Substack logo on a smartphone screen representing the platform's new Pangram AI detection feature for newslettersAI

Substack Adds Pangram AI Detection So Readers Can See How Much of a Newsletter Was Written by a Human

Substack integrated Pangram AI detection, letting readers scan newsletters to see how much was written by a human. Writers can opt out or add an AI disclosure.

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Google CodeMender AI security agent dashboard showing vulnerability scan results and code remediation interfaceAI

Google CodeMender Is Now in Preview - an AI Agent That Finds, Proves, and Fixes Code Vulnerabilities

Google CodeMender is now in preview - an AI agent that scans code for vulnerabilities, proves they're exploitable, and generates tested patches automatically.

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Parent and child looking at a tablet together with a bedtime story displayed on screenAI

Meta Is Testing an AI Children's Story App Called StoryKit - Snap a Toy, Get a Bedtime Story

Meta is testing StoryKit, an AI app that generates personalized bedtime stories for children. Snap a toy, pick a lesson, get a story with music.

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Google Gemini 3.6 Flash model announcement graphic on dark backgroundAI

Google Launches Three New Gemini Models and Teases Gemini 4 While Its Flagship Sits in Limbo

Google shipped three Flash-class Gemini models on Tuesday and dropped its first hint about Gemini 4. Gemini 3.5 Pro is still not out.

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Grok panel open inside Microsoft Excel showing a financial forecast spreadsheetAI

Grok for Excel Lands as a Free Microsoft 365 Add-In - Powered by Grok 4.5

xAI launched Grok for Excel on July 20. Free Microsoft 365 add-in powered by Grok 4.5 - writes formulas, runs scenarios, and pulls from SharePoint and email.

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Kimi Pricing 2026AI

Kimi K3 Pricing 2026: Plans, API Costs, and What Each Tier Gets You

Kimi K3 pricing: five tiers from free to $159/month annual, API at $3/$15 per million tokens, and when the 1M-token context unlocks.

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@Kimi_Moonshot X post announcing Kimi K3 subscription pause due to GPU capacity limits on July 19 2026AI

Kimi K3 Pauses New Subscriptions After 48 Hours of Demand Maxed GPU Capacity

Kimi K3 hit capacity limits after 48 hours. New subscriptions paused; existing users unaffected. Moonshot splits into Kimi Membership and Kimi Code Membership.

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Qwen logo representing the Qwen3.8 model launch by Alibaba in July 2026AI

Qwen3.8 Goes Live With 2.4T Parameters - Alibaba Claims Second to Fable 5, Open Weights Coming

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 preview lands with 2.4T parameters and multimodal support. Alibaba claims second to Fable 5. Open weights are promised but have no date.

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Side-by-side comparison of Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5 on benchmarks, pricing, and context windowAI

Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5: Cheaper and Faster on Agents, Behind on Professional Work

K3 wins SWE Marathon, BrowseComp, and Terminal Bench at 70% lower cost. Fable 5 leads intelligence and professional work. Pick based on your task.

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Nvidia Nemotron 3 Embed Rag Model 2026AI

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Hits #1 on RTEB - Three Open Models for Production RAG and Agentic Retrieval

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed ranks #1 on RTEB. Three open commercial models - 8B hits 78.46 NDCG@10, 1B hits 72.38 - with 32K context and code retrieval training.

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Google Meet logo with the Take notes for me AI feature setting panel visibleAI

Google Meet Adds 3-Person Threshold to 'Take Notes for Me' - Admins Must Act Before September 21

Google Meet's "Take notes for me" now has a 3-person threshold. Business Standard admins have it ON by default. End-user changes arrive September 21.

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