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SODA Now Trading Worldwide on Kraken
One of the world's largest exchanges now lists SODA, the latest stop on a listing roadmap that keeps moving.
SODAX SDK Blog3 min readBecoming Human AI Is Expanding — Here’s What’s Changing
Becoming Human AI Is Expanding — Here’s What’s Changing For years, this has been where you’ve found us — through Medium, whenever we published something worth your time. That’s changing a …
Becoming Human (AI)1 min readCoco Gauff and Taylor Fritz Join ŌURA as Brand Ambassadors Ahead of the 2026 US Open
Today, Oura announced long-term partnerships with top-10-ranked tennis players Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz to spotlight how elite athletes are taking a holistic approach to health as they compete at the highest level of sport.
Oura Blog4 min readSODAX joins the Circle alliance Powering Cross-network Stablecoin Settlement
SODAX has joined the Circle alliance, the partner network around Circle's stablecoin ecosystem, including USDC, and its settlement infrastructure.
SODAX SDK Blog2 min readLOL #18 - Agentic AI Summit at Berkeley, and Pi Joins the Bench
This week at LobeHub: we sponsored Agentic AI Summit 2026 at UC Berkeley and ran a booth in the MLK Building, and Pi joins Codex, Claude Code, Amp, and OpenCode as a coding agent you can connect and drive from LobeHub.
LobeHub Blog2 min readLOL #17 - ChatGPT as a Provider, Kimi K3 Fast, and Three Models on One Brief
This week at LobeHub: connect your ChatGPT subscription as a provider with no API key, Kimi K3 gets a low-latency variant, and three frontier models build the same game so you can watch where they diverge.
LobeHub Blog2 min readSODA Trading begins on Kraken this August
Kraken has confirmed its schedule for the ICX to SODA migration: trading and funding pause on August 7, and the migration itself runs August 10 through 14.
SODAX SDK Blog3 min readLOL #16 - Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and a Terminal in the Lab
This week at LobeHub: Kimi K3 and Grok 4.5 land in the model picker, a built-in terminal arrives as a Lab experiment you can enable today, and a pro tip turns one sentence into a production-ready motion video.
LobeHub Blog2 min readHow an OAuth Phish Hijacked Our X Account
We break down the OAuth phishing attack that hijacked our X account, how it worked, and what we did next.
LobeHub Blog4 min readHow to Run a Giveaway That Grows Your Audience (Using Your Link in Bio)
Most giveaways spike your follower count for a week, then the freebie-hunters unfollow and you're back where you started. The fix isn't a bigger prize: it's where you send people to enter.
Liinks Blog9 min readDetecting connections as they form: streaming graph patterns
Guest author Cyril Scetbon on streaming graph pattern matching: detecting when a pattern is satisfied in real time, incrementally, as new edges are added.
SurrealDB Blog12 min readThe Group Chat Is the New Feed
The most powerful recommendation you'll ever get doesn't happen in your comments. It happens in a group chat you'll never see, where someone pastes your link and says 'you have to check this person out.' Discovery has gone private, and it changes what your link in bio actually has to do.
Liinks Blog8 min readLOL #15 - Fable 5 Is Back, GLM-5.2 Fast, and v2.2.9 Quality-of-Life
This week at LobeHub: Anthropic's Fable 5 is back and ready to use in LobeHub, GLM-5.2 Fast arrives with a side-by-side you have to see, and v2.2.9 lands a round of quality-of-life updates across the platform.
LobeHub Blog2 min readHow to Get Your Brand Mentioned on Reddit (and Why AI Cites It)
Reddit is one of the most-cited sources in AI answers. If your brand is absent from it, you are invisible in a source the models trust. Here is how to build genuine Reddit presence that improves your AI visibility, without getting banned.
VisibAI Blog4 min readLOL #14 - AWS Summit, a New Mobile Look, and GLM-5.2 Takes Off
This week at LobeHub: our founders took the stage at AWS Summit China 2026, the mobile app got a fresh new look built for the thumb and the glance, and GLM-5.2, the model we shipped just last week, became one of the most reached-for models on the platform.
LobeHub Blog2 min readHow one Pi Coding Agent user saved $240 by switching to Freebuff CLI
Savings breakdown: Pi Coding Agent at ~$20/mo in API tokens (BYOK) vs Freebuff CLI at $0. A modeled example for terminal-first developers.
Freebuff Blog2 min readHow one OpenAI Codex CLI user saved $240 by switching to Freebuff CLI
Savings breakdown: OpenAI Codex CLI at $20/mo (ChatGPT Plus) vs Freebuff CLI at $0. A modeled example for terminal-first developers.
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