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Why you pay half price to wait

Every major provider sells the same model twice, at two prices. The cheaper one is identical in every way except when you get the answer.

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The two biggest AI models cost exactly the same

OpenAI's newest flagship and Anthropic's newest flagship are priced identically, to the cent. That is not a coincidence, and it tells you something about where the market has gone.

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The Great Salad Oil Swindle

Inspectors measured the tanks with a tape dipped in water. Oil floats. One man used that fact to borrow against $150 million of soybean oil that did not exist.

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Was Tulip Mania Even a Bubble?

The most-cited financial bubble in history may be mostly a story invented 200 years later by a man selling a book about crowd madness.

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