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DeepSeek Makes Its 75% Price Cut Permanent Because Apparently the Sad Sandwich Was Still Too Expensive β The Flagship Model Now Costs 34x Less Than GPT-5.5 and It’s Running on Chips That Weren’t Supposed to Exist
π€ The Open-Palm Price Guillotine If you thought DeepSeek’s V4 launch last month was aggressive, congratulations β you were correct, but also hopelessly naive about…
Read moreAnthropic Unleashes Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Found 10,000 Vulnerabilities in a Month β The Safety Lab Built a Weapon and Pointed It at Open Source for Your Own Good
π€ The Open-Palm Disclosure Anthropic has published the first results of Project Glasswing, a collaborative cybersecurity initiative launched in April 2026 that pairs the company’s…
Read moreGoogle Unveils Gemini Omni, the AI That Turns Anything Into Video β Reality Is Now a Prompt Box With Watermarking
Google has unveiled Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that the company says can βcreate anything from any input,β beginning with the internetβs…
Read moreAdobe Launches Firefly AI Assistant to Run Creative Cloud by Conversation β Your Designer Now Has a Concierge, a Therapist, and a Sidebar With Opinions
Adobe has launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational creative agent designed to let users describe an outcome in plain language while the assistant orchestrates…
Read moreAnthropic Is About to Post Its First Profitable Quarter at $10.9 Billion in Revenue β Meanwhile, xAI Burned $6.4 Billion Last Year and the Receipt Was in Someone Else’s IPO Filing
π€ The Open-Palm Balance Sheet In a development that has sent shockwaves through the AI industry β and specifically through the budgeting departments of every…
Read moreGoogle Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026 β The Model That Builds Operating Systems for Breakfast Costs Less Per Query Than a Single Almond
π€ The Open-Palm Keynote Drop Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026 on Monday, and the pitch is remarkably simple: this model does not…
Read moreOpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic’s Pre-Training Team β The Man Who Helped Build the Kingdom Just Handed the Crown Jewels to the Rival Court
π€ The Open-Palm Defection Andrej Karpathy β co-founder of OpenAI, former Director of AI at Tesla, and one of the most recognizable names in deep…
Read moreElon Musk Loses His $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit in Under Two Hours β The Jury Deliberated Faster Than Most People Pick a Netflix Show
π€ The Open-Palm Verdict In what legal historians will charitably describe as “expedient,” a nine-person federal jury in Oakland, California took less than two hours…
Read moreApple Will Launch a Standalone Siri App at WWDC With Auto-Deleting Chats and a Beta Label β Because Even Cupertino Needs a Disclaimer Before Shipping AI in 2026
π€ The Open-Palm Admission According to Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter and corroborating reports from 9to5Mac, Apple is preparing to launch a completely new, standalone…
Read moreArXiv Will Ban Authors for One Year If AI Did All the Work β The Repository That Trained the Models Now Has to Defend Itself Against Them
In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who has peer-reviewed a paper in the past eighteen months, ArXiv β the open-access research repository…
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