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How to Use Ideogram 4.0: 12 Steps, $0.03 an Image [2026]

Ideogram AI shipped its first open-weight flagship model, Ideogram 4.0, on June 3, 2026, and the release changed the calculus for anyone building with an ideogram ai image generator. Instead of locking the best version behind a closed API, Ideogram published a 9.3-billion-parameter diffusion transformer under an Apache 2.0 license, alongside a hosted API that…

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Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.

Enterprises trying to feed PDFs, slides and scanned documents into AI pipelines keep running into the same wall: the tools either miss the structure — tables, charts, layout — or cost too much to run at scale.Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, positioning it on price-to-performance, not raw accuracy — the right cost-capability mix for…

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Top Tech News Today, August 28, 2026: Alibaba, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Marvell, Meta, Microsoft, Waymo & More

It’s Friday, August 28, 2026, and in the last day, AI stopped behaving like a product category and started behaving like infrastructure, evidence, and a weapon. Nvidia just printed another record quarter and then quietly hit pause on the cloud-financing […] The post Top Tech News Today, August 28, 2026: Alibaba, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Marvell,…

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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: 20x Price Gap [2026]

OpenAI stopped shipping one flagship model at a time back in July 2026. GPT-5.6 arrived as a three-tier family instead: Sol, Terra, and Luna, each aimed at a different budget and a different job. Seven weeks later, that pricing structure has already been cut twice, the free ChatGPT tier has switched its default model, and…

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The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…

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