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From the blog · Case study The Bake-Off: My Real Voice vs My Voice Clone Daniel recorded his half of a conversation on his phone. The other half is Meorav, a text-to-speech model trained on 88 minutes of his voice. How the clone is made, how the episode was stitched together, and where the clone still slips.
Step into the studio The hosts are real plushies — we scanned them and built them a 3D set. How it works From a voice prompt to a finished episode: script, voices, assembly. Creator's picks Daniel's favourite episodes — a good place to start.
Monday, Oct 26

#6290: Polymarket's Final Odds for Israel's 2026 Vote

Prediction markets put Eisenkot at 55.9 percent for prime minister while giving an outright majority only a 16.5 percent chance.

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#6289: Why Hermes and Pi Top the OpenRouter Coding Table

Hermes Agent and pi logged 1.66 trillion and 1.41 trillion tokens on OpenRouter, topping Claude Code despite fundamentally opposite designs.

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#6288: What Happens Between Model Checkpoints

Extending reinforcement learning on Olmo 3 Think for 21 days yielded a 20-point leap on IFBench without starting fresh pretraining.

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#6287: Why Model Names Conceal Changes Behind the API

One API identifier spanned ten distinct releases over nineteen months without changing the name submitted by the customer.

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#6286: Why Claude Code Replaced Vector Search with Grep

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny revealed early prototypes used local vector search before abandoning it for agentic grep.

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#6285: Why Coding Benchmarks Split Across Models

GLM 5.3 claims 88.2 on Terminal Bench 2.1 against Opus 4.8 at 85, but newer evaluations reveal a very different order.

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#6284: Why Coding Agent Configurations Do Not Travel Well

Codex caps combined instruction files at 32 kibibytes, which can crowd out nested rules before an agent even starts work.

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#6283: Why Terminal Benchmarks Miss Real Desktop Faults

A hardness audit revealed that over a third of universally failed benchmark tasks were broken rather than genuinely difficult.

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#6282: How Steering Messages Reach Active Coding Agents

Steering messages in the Responses API are acknowledged and queued without interrupting running tool calls or rewriting past execution.

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#6281: Why Guest Cabins End Up Looking Mismatched

A holiday cabin rental rate can swing from 600 shekels to 1,400 in the same month without a single cushion changing.

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