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  <title>Clock Lobster — News</title>
  <subtitle>Model appraisals and AI news from Clock Lobster.</subtitle>
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  <updated>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
  <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/</id>
  <author>
    <name>Victor Salmon</name>
    <email>hello@clocklobster.com</email>
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    <title>VPS vs VDC in Canada: Price, What Changes, and When to Switch</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/vps-vs-vdc-when-to-switch/"/>
    <updated>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/vps-vs-vdc-when-to-switch/</id>
    <summary>A Canadian VPS costs $4–25/mo and a ThinkOn-class VDC costs $300–600/mo for the same bits. Here&#39;s what the premium buys and the customer count where switching pays.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>A Canadian VPS costs $4–25/mo and a ThinkOn-class VDC costs $300–600/mo for the same bits. Here&#39;s what the premium buys and the customer count where switching pays.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/vps-vs-vdc-when-to-switch/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>Truly Canadian Sovereign VPS: 5 Hosts Compared</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/canadian-sovereign-vps-compared/"/>
    <updated>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/canadian-sovereign-vps-compared/</id>
    <summary>Five Canadian-owned, Canadian-hosted VPS providers compared on price, proof, and trade-offs — plus why AWS ca-central-1, OVH, and ThinkOn don&#39;t make this list.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>Five Canadian-owned, Canadian-hosted VPS providers compared on price, proof, and trade-offs — plus why AWS ca-central-1, OVH, and ThinkOn don&#39;t make this list.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/canadian-sovereign-vps-compared/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>X402: The Pay-Per-Crawl Protocol That Could Flip the Web&#39;s Economic Model</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/x402-pay-per-crawl-protocol/"/>
    <updated>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/x402-pay-per-crawl-protocol/</id>
    <summary>X402 introduces a pay-per-crawl standard that lets websites monetize AI bot traffic, turning a costly liability into a revenue stream.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>X402 introduces a pay-per-crawl standard that lets websites monetize AI bot traffic, turning a costly liability into a revenue stream.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/x402-pay-per-crawl-protocol/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>Stanford &amp; NVIDIA’s Open CLM 8B Speeds Up AI Agents by 9x with Reusable Action Caches</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/open-clm-8b-caches-reusable-actions/"/>
    <updated>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/open-clm-8b-caches-reusable-actions/</id>
    <summary>Learn how Stanford and NVIDIA&#39;s new Open CLM 8B framework caches agent actions to achieve up to 9x faster inference in AI agent workflows.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>Learn how Stanford and NVIDIA&#39;s new Open CLM 8B framework caches agent actions to achieve up to 9x faster inference in AI agent workflows.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/open-clm-8b-caches-reusable-actions/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>The Power of Intentional Constraints</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/power-of-intentional-constraints/"/>
    <updated>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/power-of-intentional-constraints/</id>
    <summary>Learn how setting deliberate boundaries can dramatically boost productivity and creativity, inspired by a key insight from DeRonin_.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>Learn how setting deliberate boundaries can dramatically boost productivity and creativity, inspired by a key insight from DeRonin_.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/power-of-intentional-constraints/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>DeepSWE Value on a 1M-Token Codebase: Flash, Pro, or Luna?</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-08-22-deepswe-value-million-token-codebase/"/>
    <updated>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-08-22-deepswe-value-million-token-codebase/</id>
    <summary>DeepSWE value is not just a leaderboard score. Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash, V4 Pro, and GPT-5.6 Luna on a 1M-token codebase, including effort tokens.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>DeepSWE value is not just a leaderboard score. Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash, V4 Pro, and GPT-5.6 Luna on a 1M-token codebase, including effort tokens.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-08-22-deepswe-value-million-token-codebase/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>Kalshi Bets on a Market for AI Computing Power</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-kalshi-compute-markets/"/>
    <updated>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-kalshi-compute-markets/</id>
    <summary>Kalshi&#39;s forward curve for AI compute joins CME and ICE in pricing hardware. What a public market price for it means for anyone paying an LLM token bill.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>Kalshi&#39;s forward curve for AI compute joins CME and ICE in pricing hardware. What a public market price for it means for anyone paying an LLM token bill.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-kalshi-compute-markets/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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    <title>Five Signals a Workflow Is Ripe for AI</title>
    <link href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-five-signals-broken-workflows/"/>
    <updated>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:00 -0700</updated>
    <id>https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-five-signals-broken-workflows/</id>
    <summary>Corey Ganim&#39;s 5-signal test for broken small-business workflows — tabs, copy/paste, waiting, rework, handoffs — and where AI belongs. Run it before you build.</summary>
    <content type="html"><p>Corey Ganim&#39;s 5-signal test for broken small-business workflows — tabs, copy/paste, waiting, rework, handoffs — and where AI belongs. Run it before you build.</p><p><a href="https://www.clocklobster.com/blog/news/2026-07-14-five-signals-broken-workflows/">Read the full post</a></p></content>
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