All The Headlines, All The Model Drops...

DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash, undercutting US labs on price by roughly 5x. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude. Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs on May 20, and Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic. DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months (Bloomberg) Simon Willison's comparison chart of DeepSeek V4 pricing vs. US frontier models (Simon Willison) OpenAI says "GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving", performs "at a much higher level of intelligence", and is more capable for Codex (OpenAI) Meta plans to cut 10% of its employees, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, trying to boost efficiency and offset its heavy AI spending (Bloomberg) Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic: $10B now at a $350B valuation, with another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions A look at the AI nonprofit METR, maker of maybe the most important AI benchmark, whose time-horizon metrics are used by researchers and Wall Street to track AI development (NYT) The Infinite Machine Olto e-bike review: a more elegant solution for trips too long to walk but too short to drive (The Verge)

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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude spending at $29 a month, and Bof...

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Anthropic's Growth Is Slowing

Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, with adjusted profitability, but growth slowed ahead of the IPO. An arrested OpenAI engineer had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia. Amazon l...

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OpenAI's Office Was Bugged

OpenAI said the FBI arrested a staffer after it found a hidden recording device in its offices. Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, Microsoft patched a record 1,416 vulnerabilities, and the FBI shut down No...

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HomeView

Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier, and Epic delayed a game over “...

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Has AI Cooked Gaming?

Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nadella pushed for an AI “emergen...

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Is Elon Musk Coming For Your Phone Plan?

Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. SpaceX bought spectrum to take ...

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Are AI Labs Trying to Break Encryption?

Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5, Google unveiled a uni...

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Did OpenAI's Secret Model Just Crack Math?

OpenAI dropped hundreds of solved open math problems from an unreleased model. HBO Max and Paramount Plus agreed to become one streamer. Apple's smart home push leaked, including LG-branded gear. Ring...

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