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The AI engineering frontier, translated for builders. Eight to ten stories every weekday on the tools you ship with, the money behind them, and the law around them. Plain English, five minutes, one move worth making. Free.
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Struck down in June. Back at $103,265.
Plus: the 4-bit model that beats its full-precision parent
The deal died 60 minutes before the tariffs hit
Plus: Microsoft cut agent costs 78% and raised completion rates. The receipts are inside.
The $800 import loophole just stayed dead
DeepSeek shipped an open-source Claude Code rival and then raised its own prices.
The US flagship started in Beijing
Plus: four Copilot features die August 18.
A frontier-ish model now fits on the GPU in your closet
Plus: YouTube just doubled what it costs a new creator to get paid.
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Chase Nelson-Murray
Canadian. Jamaican. Based wherever the work takes me. Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, the Caribbean. I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese. I learned Portuguese on the streets of Rio, not in a classroom.
I was a Solutions Engineer at a $5B company making $107,000 a year. They terminated me while I was on approved disability leave. My insurer denied my claim. A lender destroyed my credit with a false report. Every conventional path to income was eliminated simultaneously.
So I built three AI companies with zero employees. Fully automated. Fully operational. Working from a laptop in whatever country I choose. I self-represent in multiple legal matters across jurisdictions. I used AI to fight a federal detention in Brazil and won.
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Countries operated from
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Professional certifications
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