Base44 Builds Its Own AI Model to Cut Costs and Escape Vendor Lock-In

Base44 Builds Its Own AI Model to Cut Costs and Escape Vendor Lock-In

Shawn Longmore
Published on: 01/07/2026

Companies built entirely on someone else's infrastructure are vulnerable to pricing changes, model deprecations, and competitive pressure from the very providers they depend on.

Industry AnalysisAuthor: Richard McFarland
OKX Bets on AI Agents as Customers, Launches Marketplace for Autonomous Hiring and Payment

OKX Bets on AI Agents as Customers, Launches Marketplace for Autonomous Hiring and Payment

Shawn Longmore
Published on: 30/06/2026

Crypto exchange OKX is opening a marketplace where AI agents can hire each other, pay for services using stablecoins, and build reputations that follow them across transactions. OKX is positioning the launch as infrastructure for what it calls the...

Industry Analysis
White House Clears Anthropic's Cyber Model for Limited Use After Two-Week Ban

White House Clears Anthropic's Cyber Model for Limited Use After Two-Week Ban

Shawn Longmore
Published on: 28/06/2026

Two weeks after Anthropic pulled its cybersecurity-focused AI models from the market under government pressure, the Commerce Department is allowing the company to provide one of those models to a specific list of more than 100 U.S. organizations.

AI Policy
Hybrid AI Models Beat Transformers on Specific Tokens, New Research Shows

Hybrid AI Models Beat Transformers on Specific Tokens, New Research Shows

Shawn Longmore
Published on: 27/06/2026

Researchers have identified exactly which types of words hybrid AI models handle better than standard transformers.

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