10 Must-Have Codex Plugins for Developers in 2026
The best developers using Codex install the most plugins. These 10 essential Codex plugins transform it from a chatbot into a real workflow powerhouse for 2026.
The US Government Tried to Restrict an AI Model. Cybersecurity Veterans Are Pushing Back
A week later, 76 veterans from the cybersecurity industry published an open letter demanding the government reverse the order. The signatories read like a who’s who of internet defensive infrastructure: Alex Stamos, former head of security at…
Perplexity Brain Wants to Give AI a Persistent Memory. I Have Questions.
Perplexity Brain Wants to Give AI a Persistent Memory. I Have Questions. The moment I realized my AI assistant had forgotten our entire conversation was a Tuesday. I had spent forty minutes explaining the architecture of a system to it — the specific…
Sakana AI Fugu Ultra Routes Complex Tasks to the Right Specialist Model
A Tokyo-based engineer first mentioned Sakana AI to me in the context of foundation model research. Not as a footnote. In the same conversation as work coming out of Stanford. That was enough to make me pay attention. Sakana is based in Japan. Fugu Ultra…
AI Agents Forget Everything — Here Is What Teams Are Actually Doing About It
The complaint comes up in almost every team retrospective once AI agents go into production. Not a technical complaint, not a model accuracy complaint. Something simpler: the agent forgets. In customer service, it shows up as the bot that asks for your…
Latitude Wants to Be Datadog for AI Agents — and It’s Open Source
If you’ve shipped an AI agent to production, you know the moment I’m talking about: it’s live, and you have no idea what it’s actually doing. Traditional monitoring was built for deterministic code. Logs, traces, metrics.…
Stop Paying for AI APIs: 3 Open-Source Tools That Run Everything Locally
I have been paying for OpenAI APIs for two years. Every month, $50 here, $80 there, and it adds up faster than you think. Then I started wondering whether I could actually run this stuff myself. Spoiler: you can, and it is not even that hard. Let me walk…
NousCoder-14B Is the Open-Source Coding Model That Arrived at the Right Time
Nous Research is a small team with crypto backing that has consistently punched above its weight. NousCoder-14B — fourteen billion parameters — is their coding-specialized model that arrived at exactly the right moment: developers are frustrated with…
Mistral OCR 4 Handles 170 Languages — Here Is the Self-Hosted Option That Actually Matters
OCR is one of those problems nobody talks about until it breaks. If you’ve tried to extract text from documents in languages outside the English-French-Spanish set, you know what I mean. The commercial tools either refuse to handle them or handle…
4 Steps to 4K: This AI Image Model Makes Super-Resolution Actually Usable
Image upscaling used to be a chore. You fed a blurry photo into a tool, waited for it to hallucinate some details, and hoped the result didn’t look like a painting. If you wanted to edit the upscaled image — change a color, fix a detail — you…