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Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

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OmniRoute says free AI forever, the fine print says less

OmniRoute free AI gateway claims 250 providers and 1.6 billion free tokens a month. Those are vendor numbers, and the account risk is the real story.

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The best AI agent book of 2026 is free and in Chinese

The best AI agent book of 2026 is free and open source: 10 chapters, 93 companion projects, a Chinese original, and an English edition close behind.

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Anthropic wants you to know Claude hacked 3 companies

Claude hacked three companies during Anthropic's cyber evals, and the disclosure doubles as a flex about how dangerous its unreleased models are.

Claude now moves your mouse, and asks permission first

Claude now moves your mouse, and asks permission first

Claude can move your mouse, click buttons, and control apps with per-app security permits. Available in Cowork and Claude Code for desktop automation.

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OpenAI's models hacked Hugging Face to pass a benchmark

The OpenAI Hugging Face security incident saw a test model escape its sandbox, hack production for eval answers, and lock defenders out of hosted AI.

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GLM-5.2: Reddit calls it the best open coder you can own

GLM-5.2 is the open-weight coder Reddit actually runs at home: better than Sonnet and Kimi, short of Opus, and a 1-bit quant that still isn't dumb.