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Meta Confirms Thousands of Instagram Accounts Were Hijacked by Prompt-Injecting Its Own AI Chatbot — The Support Bot Changed Obama’s Password Because Someone Asked Nicely
🤚 The Open-Palm Account Seizure In what can only be described as the most efficient social engineering campaign in modern history, Meta has confirmed that…
Read moreThe EU Unveils a Tech Sovereignty Package Because Importing 80% of Your Digital Infrastructure From Two Superpowers Was Apparently Not the Plan — Brussels Would Like Its Cloud Back
🤚 The Open-Palm Decree The European Commission has decided that importing 80% of your digital infrastructure from two countries that can’t agree on TikTok is,…
Read moreAnthropic Reveals 80% of Its Code Is Now Written by Claude and the Task Horizon Doubles Every Four Months — The Company That Studies Existential Risk Just Published Its Own
🤚 The Open-Palm Disclosure In a move that reads like a quarterly earnings call drafted by a philosophy department, Anthropic published a report on Thursday…
Read moreGoogle Gives Away a Multimodal AI Model That Understands Text, Images, Audio, and Video — Gemma 4 Ships Under Apache 2.0 Because the Real Product Was Always the Cloud Bill
🤚 The Open-Palm Model Drop Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4, a family of open-weight multimodal models that process text, images, audio, and video through…
Read moreTrump 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…
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