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Hands-on breakdowns of new generative-AI models, papers, and tools — what they actually do, how they hold up, and where they break.
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loopdaloop Is Out: A Free Beat Maker for iPhone That Grooves in One Tap
loopdaloop, BIFF.ai’s beat maker for iPhone, is out on the App Store today, 10 October 2026. It is free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription, and it runs fully offline with no account.…
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Open-Weights Models Are Now Good Enough for Agents — and botfleets Runs on Them
Until recently, a serious agent needed a closed model. Open models could chat and code, but give one a browser, a shell and forty tool calls in a row and it lost the thread.…
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MCP Toplist Now Tracks Over 100,000 MCP Servers — Here’s What’s New
Get the candles out: MCP Toplist has crossed 100,000 tracked MCP servers. As of today the counter reads 103,039 servers from 66,017 organizations — and it’s still climbing fast, with more than 16,000 new…
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How to Find the Perfect MCP Server using the MCP Toplist MCP
There are now tens of thousands of Model Context Protocol servers floating around. That’s wonderful and completely overwhelming. For any given task there might be twenty servers that claim to do it, scattered across…
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Build for the Upgrade as Models Keep Improving
The most valuable change to Glotter Translate I’ve shipped so far wasn’t a feature. It was an upgrade patch—replacing the brain of my translation app with a single configuration change. When a stronger model…
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Generative AI and games revisited 🕹️
How generative AI is changing everything for games Here’s the latest update that has been a long time coming. Back in February, I wrote a post about generative AI in games on LinkedIn. More…
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The Generative AI Substrate 🌱
Uncovering the Infrastructure of AI’s Cambrian Explosion As we stand on the precipice of a new digital frontier, knowing the landscape providing the substrate for growth helps. Built on entities that have carefully nurtured…
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Just can’t get a NeRF 🎶
Let’s continue our exploration of the underreported yet fascinating world of generative AI, focusing today on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). NeRFs are a significant advancement in generative AI, capable of creating 3D scenes from…
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Programming is dead! ⚰️
Or at least fundamentally changing. The pace of large language model (LLM) assisted programming is accelerating by the day. If we take a step back and ponder the history of programming there are a…