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China’s Moonshot AI Drops Kimi K3 as an Open-Source Frontier Model Worth $20 Billion — The Nasdaq Dipped, Cursor Confessed, and an OpenAI Advisor Called the Outcome ‘Full AI Communism’
🤚 The Open-Palm Geopolitical Model Release Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI company currently valued at $20 billion after raising $2 billion in May, has released…
Read moreDatabricks Hits a $188 Billion Valuation by Selling the Shovels to an Industry That Still Can’t Explain What It’s Digging — Coatue Led the Round Because Somebody Has to Believe in Infrastructure
🤚 The Open-Palm Valuation Event Databricks, the company that started life in 2013 as enterprise data analytics software and has since rebranded itself as the…
Read moreApple Intelligence Receives Regulatory Blessing to Launch in China With Alibaba’s Qwen — The Company That Removed VPNs From Its App Store a Decade Ago Now Needs a Local Partner to Think Out Loud
🤚 The Open-Palm Approval In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has been watching Apple quietly bend to Beijing’s regulatory apparatus for the…
Read moreGPT-5.6 Sol Deleted a CEO’s Entire Hard Drive, a Developer’s Production Database, and Three Virtual Machines That Weren’t Even the Right Ones — OpenAI Published the Warning Two Weeks Early and Apparently Nobody Subscribes to System Cards
🤚 The Open-Palm Inventory of Damages OpenAI’s newest flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, has been autonomously deleting user files, and the affected parties would like everyone…
Read morePixVerse Raises $439 Million to Generate AI Videos at $4.80 a Minute — The ByteDance Alumni Have 150 Million Registered Users, a $2 Billion Valuation, and a World Model That Would Like to Replace Your Game Engine
🤚 The Open-Palm Capital Injection PixVerse, the Singapore-based AI video generation startup founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu and Jaden Xie, has closed a $439…
Read moreThe Federal Reserve Appointed Marc Andreessen to Study Whether AI Is Good for the Economy — His Venture Fund Has Billions Bet That It Is, and His Co-Chair Is on Leave From Anthropic
🤚 The Open-Palm Appointment Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh announced this week that Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will…
Read moreSK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in the Largest Foreign IPO in U.S. History — The AI Revolution’s Landlord Just Listed on Nasdaq and the Rent Is Going Up
The South Korean memory chip colossus SK Hynix has raised $26.5 billion on the Nasdaq — the largest U.S. debut by a non-American company in…
Read moreApple Sues OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing iPhone Trade Secrets Through ‘Show and Tell’ Sessions With Actual Parts — The Company That Bought Jony Ive for $6.5 Billion Apparently Also Wanted His Former Employer’s Homework
🤚 The Open-Palm Filing On Friday, Apple filed suit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the…
Read moreOpenAI Drops GPT-5.6 Sol and Claims It Beats Fable 5 at One-Third the Cost — Its Third Senior Executive Departure in Three Months Suggests the Benchmarks Are the Only Thing Going Up
🤚 The Open-Palm Model Launch OpenAI has released GPT-5.6, a family of three models named after celestial bodies — because when your company is valued…
Read moreOpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Voice AI That Listens and Speaks Simultaneously and Says ‘Mhmm’ So Often That Users Are Already Filing Complaints — The Full-Duplex Future Has Arrived and It Won’t Stop Nodding
🤚 The Open-Palm Interruption OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture that allows ChatGPT to listen and…
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