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Ahmad J

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Founder & editor of BitByteCore. Writes on the policy and product questions where technology meets how we actually live and work.

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News · software

MCP Apps put a real interface in the chat, and both ends have to opt in

An MCP server can return an interactive HTML interface that renders inside the conversation, sandboxed in an iframe. The documentation names eight hosts that support it. None of them will show your interface unless your server asks for it too.

Ahmad J · Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read

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News · business

DeepSeek is retiring its flagship into its cheap model, and the cheap one has vision

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026 and said it will route every V4 Pro request to it four days later, at the cheaper price. The pricing table carries the odd part: the model being retired does not support vision, and the one replacing it does.

Ahmad J · Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read

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News · software

Google's cheapest AI plan gets voice in Gmail and Keep, not in Docs

Google added four features to its consumer AI plans on 9 September 2026, and the conditions in brackets are the story. Three of the four skip the entry paid tier entirely, the fourth reaches it in two apps out of three, and on Google's own plans page every tier runs the same model.

Ahmad J · Sep 9, 2026 · 6 min read

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News · chips

AWS's new G7 instances won its own benchmark with half the GPUs

AWS benchmarked its Blackwell-based G7 instances against G5, G6 and G6e on 30B mixture-of-experts models. The two-GPU box beat the four-GPU boxes, the cheapest configuration and the fastest one turned out to be different machines, and the same model cost 2.5 times more per token on retrieval traffic than on chat.

Ahmad J · Sep 8, 2026 · 6 min read

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News · security

AWS Bedrock's zero data retention has two exceptions

Bedrock stores nothing by default. Two Anthropic models will not run unless you switch that off, and the switch is an API call with no console for it.

Ahmad J · Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min read

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