Andrés Morales

A satirical website called OverpAId promises to replace your CEO with an AI that costs $4,699, a one-time payment, compared to the $18.9 million a year an average S&P 500 chief executive earns. Behind the joke are real figures on the pay ratio between executives and employees, and on how recent tech layoffs hit harder the further down the org chart you go.

Free Ink presents itself as an open ecosystem for e-readers, aiming to replace the closed firmware of Kindle and Kobo. The project joins already-active alternatives like KOReader and Plato, which show that e-ink hardware can run free software. It has not yet published a complete technical catalog of supported components.

Fireworks tested routing tasks between Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s open model, and Fable 5, Anthropic’s closed model. The combination reached 93% accuracy across roughly 1,030 agentic tasks, at up to 50 times lower cost than using Fable 5 alone.

A team of Beninese scientists rediscovered a coral reef believed dead since the 1960s, with eight types of coral and eight fish species at 53 meters deep in the Gulf of Guinea. The finding, funded by a National Geographic grant, opens the door to paleoclimate studies and a possible marine protected area.