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09:00Explainer: open weights are not open source, and sit 58% behind at 44% of cost.09:00Explainer: what is inside a lab threat report, and how to check its numbers.09:00Explainer: the four token prices behind every AI rate card, and what they hide.09:00Explainer: Astra and Fable 5.1 tie at 53, and Fable's bill runs 2.5x higher09:00Explainer: what the CLARITY Act does, and the yield fight inside section 1040409:00Explainer: what model distillation is, and why labs call 189.9m exchanges an attack
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6 stories · updated Sep 11

What is model distillation, and why do frontier labs call it an attack?

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What is the CLARITY Act? The crypto market-structure bill and the stablecoin yield fight

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GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: how do they actually compare?

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How AI inference pricing works, and why a cheap token is not a cheap answer

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What is a frontier lab threat report, and how should you read one?

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What are open-weight models, and how far behind the frontier are they?

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