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      "title": "Post-Training Language Models for Gold-Medal Performance in Coding Competitions",
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      "title": "Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Tech Debt: A 50x ROI House of Cards — Dan Bjornn, Lease End",
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      "summary": "Lease End replaced a fine-tuned intent classifier with skills and runtime context, cutting production fixes from about a week to under an hour. Higher API spend was offset by lower maintenance cost."
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      "title": "TokEval: A Tokenizer Evaluation Suite",
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      "summary": "Vercel cut GPT-5.6 Sol pricing by 50% through September 18, making direct AI Gateway runs cheaper across every tier without changing model IDs or agent configs."
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      "title": "You Only Pass Once: Answering and Abstaining Together in a Single Forward Pass of a Frozen Language Model",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14465v1",
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      "published_at": "2026-08-14T16:44:35+00:00",
      "summary": "YOPO combines reasoning steering and answer abstention in one pass of a frozen model. Reconstructing the clean residual avoids interference and beats the paper's two-pass reference at three model sizes."
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      "title": "DARTree: Speculative Diffusion Decoding with Autoregressive Draft Trees",
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      "title": "DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13517v1",
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      "title": "The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6",
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      "title": "Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/changelog/gemini-3-7-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-50-off",
      "source_name": "Vercel",
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      "summary": "Gemini 3.7 Flash is on Vercel AI Gateway at 50% off through 2026, with direct setup paths for major coding agents and controls for routing, retries, and spend."
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      "url": "https://vercel.com/changelog/glm-5-2-free-for-eve-agents-through-august-27-via-blackbox-on-ai-gateway",
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      "summary": "Eve agents can use GLM 5.2 free through August 27 via Vercel AI Gateway; new agents default to it, while existing agents need a model-setting change."
    },
    {
      "title": "Adaption Labs: Gradient-Free Continual Learning — Sara Hooker, Adaption",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEd_SRVHBgU",
      "source_name": "AI Engineer",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T16:30:19+00:00",
      "summary": "Auto Scientist aims to automate model-training choices across data, alignment, and architecture. The builder-relevant claim is broader recipe search, though frontier training remains compute-heavy and safety stays unresolved."
    },
    {
      "title": "DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/changelog/deepseek-v4-pro-now-runs-updated-weights-on-ai-gateway",
      "source_name": "Vercel",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T07:00:00+00:00",
      "summary": "AI Gateway moved DeepSeek V4 Pro’s existing alias to updated weights without a code change. Pinning is documented inconsistently, so verify the dated model ID first."
    },
    {
      "title": "Introducing Grok 4.6",
      "url": "https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-6",
      "source_name": "Cursor",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00",
      "summary": "Grok 4.6 targets long-running coding and knowledge-work agents, with more self-testing and stronger visual first passes reported by Cursor. API pricing starts at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens."
    },
    {
      "title": "DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%",
      "url": "https://vercel.com/blog/deepseek-overtakes-google-on-volume-cost-per-token-falls",
      "source_name": "Vercel",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T04:00:00+00:00",
      "summary": "Vercel’s July gateway data shows model routing, not list-price cuts, drove a 13.6% drop in average token cost as open-weight models gained production traffic."
    },
    {
      "title": "Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoEIs6Xm8m8",
      "source_name": "AI Engineer",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T23:26:51+00:00",
      "summary": "Cline’s founder argues that cheaper open-weight models become practical when verification lives in the harness, while AI-generated noise and package compromise make open-source trust harder."
    },
    {
      "title": "Local Models: Trust, Control, Optimization — Carter Abdallah, NVIDIA",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMJQDH3iK0",
      "source_name": "AI Engineer",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T02:00:06+00:00",
      "summary": "Open models let builders retain inference traces, customize the training stack, and reduce dependence on one provider, while closed frontier models remain useful for many workloads."
    },
    {
      "title": "Compression at the Edge — NVIDIA, Unsloth, HuggingFace, Ollama",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4_jCrTxMkk",
      "source_name": "AI Engineer",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T01:00:06+00:00",
      "summary": "Quantization can make large models locally runnable, but builders must evaluate each compressed artifact in its real harness because architecture, precision, speed, and quality interact."
    }
  ]
}