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Apple's Claris Is Testing Harbor, a Private AI Server That Pools Memory Across Macs Over Thunderbolt 5. Here Is What It Would Replace in My Setup.
Claris, an Apple company, has a private preview page for Harbor: run open-weight models on Macs you own, and pool unified memory across two or more Thunderbolt 5 Macs. No price, no named models, no API spec. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and the math to run before you buy hardware for it.
ClickHouse Is Acquiring Xata and Made Managed Postgres Generally Available on AWS. Branching and Scale to Zero Are Not in It Yet. Here Is What I'd Do as a Xata Customer.
Xata says nothing changes in the short term and that customers will move to ClickHouse Managed Postgres once it reaches feature parity. There is no date, no price and no word on the free tier, so I would spend 30 minutes on a dump and a tripwire.
OpenAI Opened Verified Business Profiles in ChatGPT on November 10. Business Agents Are US Only for Now. Here Is What I'd Do Before Someone Else Describes My Product.
ChatGPT now has a beta that works a lot like Google Business Profile, with verified listings, mention counts and click-throughs. The price, the countries and the verification steps are not public yet, so the useful work this week is on your own site.
Val Town Is Winding Down. Code Goes Read-Only December 10 and Everything Stops January 10. Here Is the Migration Order I'd Follow.
Val Town closed signups on November 10 and gave users 30 days until read-only and 61 days until shutdown. If you run crons, webhooks or a small API there, the order you move things in matters more than which host you pick.
Apple Started Selling Prepaid AI Credits for $49.99. It Is Not Your API Bill Yet, but Apple Has Said Developer Limits Are Coming in 2027.
Apple's Intelligence Usage Packs are the first paid tier for Apple Intelligence, limited to Creator Studio apps for now. The part that matters for builders is a line on Apple's usage-limits page about developer apps.
Claude Fable 5.2 Costs $8 and $40 per Million Tokens, Exactly Twice Opus 5.5. Anthropic Says It Is Cheaper per Task. Here Is the 20-Task Test I'd Run Before Switching.
Anthropic's new flagship doubles the per-token price and claims about half the cost per task at matched quality. That claim is Anthropic's own, so I would test it on my work before moving anything.
Meta's Muse Ember Lists at the Same Price as Claude Haiku 5.5. The Savings Are in the Tokens It Doesn't Use, and the Accuracy Gap Is Real.
Muse Ember matches Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis' index at about a third of the cost per task, but the list price is the same and its factual accuracy is lower. Here is where I would test it.
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" Saved Passwords Into 1,122 Public Repo Files. Here Is the Ten-Minute Cleanup.
Apiiro found secrets in 1,122 public copies of .claude/settings.local.json. If you have ever clicked "Yes, and don't ask again" on a command with a token in it, check your repos today.
Thinking Machines Says Inkling 2 Small Weights Arrive Under Apache 2.0 "Next Week." Plan the Test, Not the Migration.
Inkling 2 Small is a 594B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, closed today, with open weights promised after safety testing. Here is the plan I would have ready before the download link exists.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Is Generally Available at $0.07 per Second of 720p Video. A Maximum 15-Second Clip Costs $1.05, and That Is Your Margin Problem.
Google cut video generation prices about 30% and stretched clips to 15 seconds. At $1.05 per maximum clip, an unlimited plan is the thing that breaks first.
OpenAI's Docs Now List GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst and Flare With SVG Output. Price It Per Accepted Asset, Not Per Million Tokens.
Two new image model IDs, token-based pricing and SVG output sound useful for icons and diagrams. The number that matters to a solo builder is cost per asset you actually keep.
GitHub Copilot Landed Inside Xcode's Coding Assistant, but Only in the 27.3 Beta. Here Is How I'd Test It Without Touching My Shipping Toolchain.
GitHub announced a public preview on November 4. The requirements are clear and the capabilities are not, which is exactly when an indie iOS developer should trial it on the side.