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Cache Tokens Explained

Cache tokens are the parts of your prompt that AI providers bill at a big discount because the model has already processed them. Here's what cache reads and writes are, how Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and DeepSeek charge for them, and how to structure your prompts so you actually pay the cheap rate. [...]

TypeScript 7, $10,000 AI Slop Removal and Claude Code's Token Bloat - The Weekly Diff #7

TypeScript 7's native compiler lands, a firm charges $10,000 a week to delete AI generated slop, Clawk provides disposable Linux VMs for coding agents, and Claude Code sends 33k tokens before it even reads your prompt. [...]

Fable 5 Returns, HackerRank's Flaky ATS & ZCode's GLM-5.2 Harness — The Weekly Diff #6

Fable 5 quietly returns with a usage cap that undercuts its own doomsday marketing, HackerRank's open-sourced ATS can't score the same resume twice, and ZCode wraps GLM-5.2 in a Claude Code-style harness. Plus DeepSeek's DSpark paper, Box3D's open 3D physics, and Claude Code steganographically watermarking your prompts. [...]

OpenAI & Anthropic's AI Model Lockdown, Open Models Rise & Google's Firing — The Weekly Diff #5

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol ships behind US government vetting, Anthropic's Mythos and Fable get rationed by Washington, open-weight models rise as the cheap alternative, smart model routing, Node's new Nub toolkit, Google firing a CLI maintainer, and Microsoft's quantum claim undone by Python bugs. [...]

SpaceX Buys Cursor, The Fable Ban & Apple's Container Machines — The Weekly Diff #3

The US government orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos, SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion, Homebrew 6.0 ships with macOS 27 support, an AI agent racks up a massive bill unsupervised, Apple enters the container space, going HTML first doubles a startup's users, and a LinkedIn job offer hides a backdoor. [...]

Claude Opus 4.8, OpenRouter's $113M Round & SQLite's Anti-AI Stance — The Weekly Diff #2

Anthropic ships Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows, OpenRouter raises $113M to become the model marketplace, SQLite draws a hard line against AI generated code, and a developer's open source project gets weaponized for phishing. [...]

How to Use Free Antigravity AI Models in Claude Code

antigravity-claude-proxy, an open source project by Badri Narayanan S, masterfully links Google’s Antigravity with Anthropic’s Claude Code, letting you run Claude models powered by your Antigravity tokens in Claude Code. [...]