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      <title>OpenAI overhauls agent pricing — what it means for small builders</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Per-task billing replaces per-token for the agent API. We ran the numbers on three real workloads to see who wins and who quietly pays more.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
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      <title>Inside the npm supply-chain attack that shipped to 40,000 projects</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A single compromised maintainer token, a post-install script, and eleven days before anyone noticed. Here is the full timeline.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
      <category>security</category>
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      <title>The seed round is getting harder — 2026 data from 900 deals</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Median seed size is up, deal count is down 22%. What founders are actually being asked for at first meeting now.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
      <category>startups</category>
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      <title>ARM laptops finally beat x86 on battery and compile time</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We benchmarked six 2026 machines on the same Rust build. The gap is no longer theoretical.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
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      <title>EU AI Act enforcement starts — the four rules that bite first</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Transparency obligations are live. If you ship a model or a wrapper into the EU, these are the ones with real fines attached.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
      <category>world</category>
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      <title>Self-hosting is having a moment — and the bills explain why</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Three teams moved off managed cloud this year. Two saved money, one regretted it. The difference was not technical.</description>
      <author>Prince Baruwala</author>
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