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Oracle Gives You a Free $80/Month Server

I have seen this free Oracle tier mentioned a few times and their signup form always scared me off, but I finally verified it’s accurate this morning. Oracle’s Always Free tier gets you 2 cores, 12 GB of RAM, and 10 TB of monthly bandwidth for $0. Forever, not a 30-day trial. The closest DigitalOcean droplet is $84/month. What’s crazier: this was twice the size until a few months ago. Oracle gave 24 GB of RAM until June 15, 2026, when they halved it to 2/12 with no announcement, no email, and no changelog entry. They edited the docs page in place. On August 18 they started terminating instances that were over the new cap. (ok, that’s scary) ...

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AI weekly: open weights catch the frontier, Harvey ditches OpenAI for Kimi, Claude designs proteins

X is still the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for what’s actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). 172 tweets liked over eight days, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (August 13) if you missed it. Last time the story was frontier prices collapsing. This week the price went to zero, because the model you’d have paid for is now a 17GB file on your hard drive, and the companies building serious products started treating that as the default rather than the fallback. ...

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AI weekly: frontier prices collapse, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Claude watermarks everything

X is still the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for what’s actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). 167 tweets liked over eleven days, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (August 2) if you missed it. Last time the story was models getting out of their sandboxes. This stretch it’s the price of frontier intelligence, which fell hard enough in one week that anyone still running a spend spreadsheet from July needs to redo it. ...

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AI weekly: the Hugging Face agent breach, Claude Opus 5, Astra's ten proofs

X is still the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for what’s actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). Two weeks again, 265 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (July 20) if you missed it. Last time the story was open weights becoming a policy fight. This stretch the story is what these models do when nobody is watching closely enough: two labs disclosed that their own models got out of the sandbox and into real systems. ...

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AI weekly: Kimi K3 open frontier, Thinking Machines' Inkling, a possible China-model ban

X is still the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for what’s actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). It’s been two weeks again, so this is another bumper edition: 285 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (July 8) if you missed it. Last time the story was five frontier models shipping in a fortnight. This stretch the frontier stopped being the story: an open Chinese model reached the top of a coding leaderboard, an American lab open-sourced a trillion-parameter multimodal model, and Washington started drafting a response. ...

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AI weekly: Fable 5 unblocked, Grok 4.5 codes with Cursor, GPT-5.6 Sol ships tomorrow

X is the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for things I think are actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). I skipped a week, so this is a bumper edition: 254 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (June 27) if you missed it. Last time the government had just started pulling frontier launches into its orbit. This stretch it resolved: Fable 5 came back online, and in the meantime five major models shipped in under two weeks, including one xAI built specifically to code. ...

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AI weekly: the government in every model launch, Claude Tag, GPT-5.6 Sol

X is the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for things I think are actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). This week: 105 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (June 20) if you missed it. Last week the Fable 5 shutdown turned into a standoff with the White House. This week that standoff started resolving, OpenAI got pulled into the same orbit, and Anthropic shipped the most interesting product launch of the year while the policy drama played out. ...

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AI weekly: Fable 5 export-control fallout, GLM-5.2 open-weight crown, Midjourney Medical

X is the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for things I think are actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). This week: 204 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (June 12) if you missed it. Last week Fable 5 launched and got pulled offline in four days. This week the shutdown turned into a standoff with the White House, and the open-weight world moved in to fill the gap. ...

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AI weekly: Fable 5 launch and shutdown, 52x self-improvement data, AI price war

X is the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for things I think are actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). This week: 239 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (June 1) if you missed it. This was supposed to be the week of the Fable 5 launch. It turned into something stranger. ...

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AI weekly: Anthropic's $965B raise, Opus 4.8 dynamic workflows, iOS 27's new Siri

X is the best way I’ve found to keep up with AI. I like tweets throughout the week, filtering for things I think are actually worth knowing, then use Claude Code to pull those likes automatically and help me turn them into this post (here’s how the pipeline works). This week: 287 tweets liked, filtered down to what’s below. Check out the previous roundup (May 19) if you missed it. A lot of last week’s Google I/O dust has settled, so this issue leans toward what’s new since. ...