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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

🀚 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…

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Anthropic 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

🀚 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…

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Google 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 β€œcreate anything from any input,” beginning with the internet’s…

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Adobe 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…

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Anthropic 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

🀚 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…

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Google 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

🀚 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…

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OpenAI 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

🀚 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…

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Elon Musk Loses His $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit in Under Two Hours β€” The Jury Deliberated Faster Than Most People Pick a Netflix Show

🀚 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…

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Apple 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

🀚 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…

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ArXiv 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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