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I have a feeling Zcash is the coin this cycle that even smart traders sell and rotate into other coins because it is up so high so fast. But after a year or two everyone realizes they would have been better off just holding.

More AI tools usually means more questions: who’s using what, what’s it costing, and is it actually working well? In this webinar, Matei Zaharia and Kasey Uhlenhuth show how Unity Gateway helps teams see and control AI usage across models, agents, harnesses, and workflows. They also cover how Omnigent lets builders combine and share the coding agents and SDKs they already use, while leaders keep governance, cost, and quality in check. Watch now:

Why does Astra (and every GPT model, for that matter) feel the need to force obnoxious one-liners and text everywhere? It's so bad, one of the biggest giveaways of GPT-generated content, and it even extends to GPT-Image 🫩