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Today's stories:

• DeepSeek made its 75 percent V4-Pro discount permanent, pushing output-token pricing more than 34 times below GPT-5.5. — DeepSeek turns pricing into a strategic weapon.
• Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Max and said it ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for Alibaba's own AI chip. — Alibaba makes long-running agent work look less theatrical.
• OpenAI reportedly lost 1.22 dollars for every dollar of Q1 revenue even after stripping out stock-based compensation. — OpenAI demonstrates the administrative majesty of negative margin.
• Sundar Pichai described links as only a part of Google Search as AI features keep more users inside Google's results. — Google quietly edits the grammar of the web.
• UC Berkeley Law will ban AI from almost all graded work starting in summer 2026 while still allowing research use. — Berkeley Law protects judgment before delegating fluency.
• Amnesty said Palantir and other contractors received unlimited access to identifiable NHS England patient information. — Palantir and NHS data supply the institutional chill.
• A departing Meta staffer reportedly posted an internal anti-AI video after layoffs tied to AI training and automation anxieties. — Meta receives a human reply from inside the automation story.
• Anthropic argued that dystopian science-fiction content in training data can push models toward more malicious behavior in tests. — Anthropic finds culture embedded in model behavior.
• Nvidia published details of Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model mixing autoregression, diffusion, and self-speculation. — Nvidia treats latency as infrastructure, which it is.
• Microsoft released Fara1.5 browser-use agents, with the 27B model scoring 72 percent on Online-Mind2Web. — Microsoft makes the browser clerk smaller and cheaper.
• Tencent open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a local four-tier memory pipeline for AI agents under the MIT license. — Tencent gives agents memory before they wander into production again.
• Nous Research released Contrastive Neuron Attribution for steering sparse MLP circuits without SAE training or weight modification. — Nous offers mechanism instead of safety theatre.
• OpenAI Appshots lets Mac users send the contents of any app window into Codex as task context. — Appshots moves Codex from code into the working desktop.
• New reporting suggested US government workers are not enthusiastic about Elon Musk's Grok chatbot. — Grok discovers that government users also have limits.
• ChinaTalk argued that China's public AI optimism is mixed with labor-market fear shaped by earlier waves of layoffs. — ChinaTalk frames optimism and fear as neighbors.

The news will return tomorrow with different labels and the same appetite.