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Trump Signs a Downsized AI Executive Order That Voluntarily Asks Companies to Voluntarily Submit to Voluntary Review — The Word ‘Voluntary’ Appears More Times Than Any Actual Regulation
🤚 The Open-Palm Executive Summary After weeks of internal rewrites, industry tantrums, and what sources describe as “aggressive lobbying by people who own buildings named…
Read moreClickUp Fires 22% of Its Workforce and Replaces Them With 3,000 AI Agents — The Survivors Get Million-Dollar Salaries and a 3:1 Robot-to-Human Ratio That HR Definitely Did Not Approve
🤚 The Open-Palm Downsizing ClickUp, the nine-year-old project management startup valued at $4 billion, has laid off 22% of its workforce — roughly 290 employees…
Read moreOpenRouter Raises $113 Million Because the Real AI Play Was Never the Model — It Was the Switchboard That Routes Your API Calls to Whichever Model Is Cheapest Today
🤚 The Open-Palm Funding Round In what can only be described as the infrastructure equivalent of “I don’t make the drugs, I just connect the…
Read moreMistral Drops a 128-Billion-Parameter Model, a Unified Agent, and a Physics Simulator at Its AI Now Summit — Because Announcing One Product Per Week Is for Companies Without European Ambition
🤚 The Open-Palm Product Dump Mistral AI held its AI Now Summit 2026 this week and emerged with the kind of announcement cadence usually reserved…
Read moreAnthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 — The Only Model to Ace Every Super-Agent Benchmark, and It Costs 61% Less to Tell You Your Code Is Wrong
🤚 The Open-Palm Upgrade In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has been watching Anthropic ship models like a bakery ships croissants, the…
Read moreAgent Name Service Wants to Be DNS for AI Agents — Because Your Autonomous Bots Now Need Passports, Name Tags, and a Bouncer
Agent Name Service, or ANS, is the sort of infrastructure idea that sounds boring until you realize the alternative is letting millions of autonomous bots…
Read moreKarpathy-Inspired CLAUDE.md Turns Claude Code Into a Less Dramatic Coworker — The File That Tells Your Agent to Stop Assuming, Stop Overbuilding, and Verify the Thing
Andrej Karpathy did not need to ship a 900-page management framework to explain why coding agents occasionally behave like interns with root access. A short…
Read moreClaude Found an Apple macOS Kernel Vulnerability and Got Credited in the Security Advisory — Your Bug Bounty Program Just Got Outbid by an API Call
🤚 The Open-Palm Patch Notes Buried in Apple’s security advisory for macOS Tahoe 26.5 — between the usual parade of WebKit patches and Bluetooth edge…
Read moreThe White House Overrides the Pentagon to Give Anthropic’s Mythos to the NSA — The Safety Lab That Said No to Everyone Just Became America’s Most Reluctant Defense Contractor
🤚 The Open-Palm Clearance In a development that reads like a spy thriller ghostwritten by a compliance attorney, the White House has personally approved Anthropic…
Read moreOpenAI Gives ChatGPT Access to Your Personal Finances — The Budgeting App Has Become Sentient and It Has Questions About Your Subscriptions
OpenAI has decided that the next frontier for artificial intelligence is not merely writing emails, debugging code, or helping executives produce strategy documents with the…
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