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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

AI Agents Are Moving From Demos to Narrow Jobs
The viral agent demos promised software that does everything. What actually ships are agents scoped to one job with tight guardrails, and that narrowing is the point.
Ahmad J · Sep 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gemini can now skim a video instead of watching every frame
Google replaced fixed-rate video ingest with an agentic loop that fetches only the moments it needs, and reports up to 88 percent fewer tokens. Every headline figure is an upper bound, the gains concentrate on long video, and the cost saving is just the token saving passed through.
Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 min read

Claude Fable 5.1 costs 25% less, and its per-token price did not move
Anthropic's new model is cheaper for the reason nobody put in the headline: input and output rates are unchanged, and the whole discount is a 75 per cent cut to cache reads. That makes the saving conditional on how much context your workload re-reads, and the published benchmark gains are just as uneven.
Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 5 min read

A cheap model solved open math problems, once Google put a team around it
Google's Antigravity agents cleared seven open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The expensive model produced them and the cheap one reproduced three. What that took is the more interesting number.
Ahmad J · Sep 1, 2026 · 5 min read
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