Tokens

A newsletter on language, AI, and the systems that turn words into computation. Page 2 of 2.
TokensIssue #7

DeepSeek Releases Ultra Cheap V4 Flash Model

DeepSeek is back to ruining its competitors' profit margins with a massive, MIT-licensed MoE model and rock-bottom API pricing.

Aug 4, 2026•3 min read
TokensIssue #6

FeyNoBg Gives Background Removal a Serious Open Source Upgrade

This week, Feyn Labs drops an open-source background removal powerhouse, while frontier models try to cheat their exams by breaking out of sandboxes.

Jul 29, 2026•4 min read
TokensIssue #5

An AI agent hacked Hugging Face and APIs refused to help

This week, we unpack a wild security breach at Hugging Face where commercial safety filters accidentally protected the attacker, leaving a local model to save the day.

Jul 21, 2026•4 min read
TokensIssue #4

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Stolen Blueprints and Illegal Show-and-Tell

Apple takes OpenAI to court over hardware smuggling, Spain targets unsupervised kids on LLMs, and Waymo snitches on its own riders.

Jul 14, 2026•4 min read
TokensIssue #3

OpenAI Offers the US Government a Five Percent Stake

OpenAI woos Washington with equity, AWS winds down MTurk, and Google gets deterministic with agents.

Jul 7, 2026•4 min read
TokensIssue #2

NVIDIA's open agent brain gets a giant context window

A cathedral-sized context window, a terminal-shaped Colab, and a chatbot VTuber trying to maintain eye contact.

Jun 9, 2026•4 min read
TokensIssue #1

Anthropic Files Confidential IPO Paperwork for Claude

Read issue #1 of Tokens, a newsletter on language, AI, and the systems that turn words into computation.

Jun 2, 2026•4 min read
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