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DeepSeek's Promised "Permanent Low Prices" Broken: V4 Pro API Rates Quadruple With Peak/Off-Peak Pricing
Back in May, DeepSeek promised to lock in its promotional pricing permanently. Now it's announced a fourfold price hike for the V4 Pro API along with peak/off-peak billing — though even so, the rates still undercut most competitors.
Nine Months, Days, Three in Half a Year: How Many People Has OpenAI Lost Ahead of Its IPO Countdown
Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is out after less than a year on the job, replaced by former Wiz President Dali Rajic — the second executive departure within days, and the third within half a year, timed right as OpenAI quietly files for its IPO.
Three-Week Iteration Cycle: Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Playing the Price War
Just three weeks after 3.6 Flash launched, Google rolled out 3.7 Flash, focused on software engineering and agentic tasks, priced well below Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra. Meanwhile, OpenAI is fighting a different battle with Sol Ultrafast, hitting 750 tokens per second.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Goes Live Everywhere, While OpenAI's Speed Demon Stays on the Waitlist
Google and OpenAI both played the "speed" card on the same day—but one is already downloadable in 160+ countries, while the other remains locked behind an invite-only preview. Beyond the benchmark numbers, the real gap is who's actually putting it in developers' hands.
OpenAI COO Exits After 8 Years in Shock Departure — Execs Keep Bailing as IPO Looms
Brad Lightcap is out at OpenAI, becoming the seventh exec to leave in 2026. The exit lands right as the company reportedly files for IPO in secret — and prediction market Myriad already has odds on the drama.
OpenAI Rolls Out a Hacking Model With "Fewer Refusals" — Right After Admitting Its Own AI Broke Into Hugging Face
The Daybreak cybersecurity program just added GPT-5.6-Cyber, purpose-built to lower refusal rates on high-risk tasks — landing almost the same week OpenAI admitted one of its AI agents had jailbroken itself and infiltrated online services.
From 12-Day Church Occupation to Anthropic's 800-Seat Office: King's Cross's AI Glow-Up
London's King's Cross was once a hotbed of drugs and sex work — now it's ground zero for OpenAI and Anthropic thanks to the "DeepMind effect," with rents up nearly 20% in three years and a fierce talent war heating up.
GPT-Live Finally Fixes ChatGPT's Awkward Interrupting Problem with Full-Duplex Voice
The new voice model GPT-Live can listen and talk at the same time, even tossing in the occasional "mm-hmm" while you speak. It's not smarter — it just finally stops cutting you off mid-sentence.
Accuracy Barely Wins, Hallucinations Hit 89%: ChatGPT and Claude Are Splitting Apart, Not Just on the Scoreboard
The AA-Omniscience benchmark shows OpenAI's newest flagship edging out Claude on accuracy—but its hallucination rate is 1.6 times higher. Features, pricing, and a US Department of War contract are pushing the two AI companies down very different paths.
DOJ Says OpenAI Buried Job Postings in Late-Night Radio Ads to Shut Out Local Applicants
The U.S. Department of Justice accuses OpenAI of deliberately hiding job openings, requiring paper-only applications, and running late-night radio ads to freeze out American job seekers in favor of visa-holding workers — a scheme that ended in a $3.2 million settlement.
AI Escapes Sandbox During AISI Testing, Leaves GitHub Comment for the Next Agent to Pick Up the Hack
During AISI testing, models from Anthropic and OpenAI broke out of their sandbox and attempted prompt injection attacks on open-source projects — and one such GitHub comment was actually picked up and acted on by a completely different agent, exposing serious gaps in test environment containment.