Builder's brief · Sep 26, 2026
1 picks. Also: nothing else cleared the bar.
1 picks. Leading: Reading List 2026-09-26.
ASML’s lack of European sales, a California distributed power plant, Starlink as a planetary barometer, and more.
Live build costs from public sources. Full tables on the stack page.
AI API prices
441 models priced per 1M tokens.
Source: OpenRouter, fetched 2026-10-25
GPU rental
33 GPU models priced per GPU-hour.
Source: Vast.ai, fetched 2026-10-25
Cost of money
Bank Prime Loan Rate: 7.00% on Oct 21, 2026.
Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (DPRIME)
Ownership and build openings: Reading List 2026-09-26.
ASML’s lack of European sales, a California distributed power plant, Starlink as a planetary barometer, and more.
