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The White House Unbanned Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos After 18 Days — Long Enough for Asian Startups to Build Competing Models and Short Enough to Prove the Entire Exercise Was Performative
🤚 The Open-Palm Reversal The Trump administration, apparently tiring of its own regulatory theatrics, has lifted the export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos…
Read moreSouth Korea Pledges $900 Billion to Solve ‘RAMageddon’ Because the AI Industry Ate Every Memory Chip on Earth — Samsung and SK Hynix Will Build Four Factories and Fifteen Gigawatts of Data Centers to Feed the Machine
🤚 The Open-Palm Allocation In a move that makes the entire European Union’s chip ambitions look like a lemonade stand business plan, South Korea has…
Read moreFord Rehired 350 Engineers It Replaced With AI After the AI Produced Cars That Required Hundreds of Millions in Warranty Repairs — The Neural Network Could Not Hear a Misaligned Door Hinge but Gary From the Factory Floor Absolutely Can
🤚 The Open-Palm Recall Ford Motor Company has done something that no Silicon Valley pitch deck has ever recommended: it hired 350 experienced engineers —…
Read moreThe Trump Administration Banned Anthropic’s Most Powerful AI Model, Needed It Back in Fourteen Days, and Now 100 Organizations Have Access to a Tool the Government Still Can’t Describe the Safeguards For
🤚 The Open-Palm Pardon In a development that surprises absolutely no one who has watched this administration’s relationship with AI policy evolve from “ban it”…
Read moreThe White House Asks OpenAI to Delay GPT 5.6 Because the Model Can Execute Ransomware Autonomously — The Administration That Promised ‘Hands Off’ Now Requires Individual Customer Approval
🤚 The Open-Palm Reversal In a move that will surprise precisely no one who has been following the accelerating game of regulatory chicken between Washington…
Read moreOpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom AI Chip Designed in Nine Months With the Help of the AI It Will Run — The Recursion Has a Deployment Timeline and It Costs 50% Less Than Nvidia
🤚 The Open-Palm Unveiling OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom-built AI chip — an inference-only ASIC that was designed in nine months,…
Read moreGoogle’s Nobel Prize Winner Just Defected to Anthropic — AlphaFold Predicted 200 Million Protein Structures but Couldn’t Predict Its Creator’s Two-Week Notice
🤚 The Open-Palm Departure John Jumper, Google DeepMind Vice President and co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced Friday that he is leaving…
Read moreSpaceX Paid $60 Billion for Cursor Using Stock That Appreciated by the Entire Purchase Price in a Single Afternoon of Trading — Your Brokerage Account Would Like a Moment of Silence
🤚 The Open-Palm Transaction On June 12, 2026, SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history, opening at $135 per share and raising $86.2 billion. Four…
Read moreGoogle Paid $2.7 Billion to Rehire the Man Who Invented Transformers — He Stayed 22 Months and Left for OpenAI Because Apparently a Billion-Dollar Retention Package Has an Expiration Date
There are expensive hires, and then there is Noam Shazeer — the man who co-authored the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper that gave…
Read moreThe U.S. Government Approved Blacklisting DeepSeek, Reviewed the Evidence, Confirmed the Threat, and Then Decided to Do Absolutely Nothing — The Entity List Has a Waiting Room and DeepSeek Brought a Magazine
🤚 The Open-Palm Diplomatic Calculus A U.S. interagency committee has approved adding DeepSeek, Chinese memory-chip maker CXMT, and more than 100 other companies to the…
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