DeepSeek V4 priced at $3.48 per million tokens versus $25–$30 for US models and $180 for premium tier, delivering similar performance at up to 51x lower cost

China just made Silicon Valley’s entire AI industry look like a scam. The US government spent 3 years trying to stop China from building competitive AI. But this backfired HORRIBLY. Here’s what happened: Yesterday, a Chinese startup called DeepSeek released a new AI model called V4. It matches the performance of OpenAI and Anthropic’s best …

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Ellison declares AI models commodities, says the real gold is private data

StockMarket.News @_Investinq Oracle just told every AI company on earth the same thing. Your models are worthless. Not the technology, talent or the billions spent training them. But the data they were trained on. Larry Ellison, the man who built Oracle into the backbone of global enterprise just dropped a bombshell. He said ChatGPT, Gemini, …

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Trump orders all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic AI models. Anthropic order will require 6 month phase out period.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116144552969293195 President Donald Trump said Friday that he was ordering every U.S. government agency to “immediately cease” using technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Trump in a Truth Social post said there would be a six-month phase-out for agencies such as the Defense Department, which “are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels.” Defense Secretary …

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Nationwide travel chaos as hurricane-force winds rip through multiple US states. Models show a MONSTER snowstorm upcoming.

You know the deal today…wind, fire danger, blowing dirt are the headliners. Gusts over 60 mph will be possible, as you can see in the animation below. The wind gust animation starts today, 10 AM MST and ends tonight, 8 PM MST #desertfarmers #cowx #kswx #newx #wywx #okwx #txwx… pic.twitter.com/n89MIfBDQp — Brian Bledsoe 🐊 (@BrianBledsoe) …

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All the Dominant Models Are Collapsing

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Every nation is operating on models that are collapsing without those at the controls being aware that the implicit assumptions of their models no longer map reality. A recent article lays out the collapse of the dominant geopolitical model of “rising powers generate conflict”: The Stagnant Order And the End …

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Models Show Back to Back BIG Snowstorms…

A major snowstorm in the Midwest and Great Lakes brought winter to some Thanksgiving travelers, and forecasters said the northeast U.S. could get its own early winter storm next week. Winter storm warnings and advisories extended from Montana to Ohio, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters warned there could be airport delays and slowed traffic …

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Fannie Mae’s move to drop the 620 score floor could expand access to mortgages, but if the new scoring models misread default risk, the losses will spread across the entire system

Fannie Mae is set to drop its 620 credit score minimum this month. On the surface level, this is huge, renters with good payment history, young people with thin files, anyone locked out by arbitrary score floors suddenly has a shot at conventional financing. Also, first time buyers are collapsing so Fannie Mae desperately needed …

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Models are flashing a 90% chance of corporate bloodbath in October. J.P. Morgan Warns S&P 500 could drop nearly 8%

Intuit…. Models are flashing a 90% chance of corporate bloodbath in October. Bring rain gear. More to come. — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) September 10, 2025 J.P. Morgan Warns S&P 500 Could Drop Nearly 8% — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) September 10, 2025 The overnight repo market is supposed to be the smoothest corner of the plumbing: …

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GPT-5 was trained on synthetic outputs, meaning AI models are now learning from other AI-generated content.

OpenAI has confirmed that GPT-4.5 was trained on synthetic data generated by smaller models, and GPT-5 has expanded the same pipeline. The company is not revealing the datasets used or how much synthetic material is in the mix. https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/ Its research head says the shift to synthetic data comes from a scarcity of high-quality public …

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Bloomberg shows AI slamming tech stocks. Bank of America flags 26 at risk. AI kills gigs on Upwork and Chegg.

Bloomberg’s chart didn’t predict a collapse. It recorded one. Bank of America flagged 26 companies at risk from AI. Most only saw nine. The rest were hidden behind paywalls and terminals. We found all 26. The pattern is clear. “Agentic AI deployments could displace workers as early as 2H25 across industries, such as contact centers, …

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GPT-5 rollout implodes. OpenAI caught faking chart data. Users demand old models back

They didn’t release GPT-5. They pulled the pin and tossed it. The livestream sold a moonshot. What landed was a limp — and a trust kill. “GPT-5 is not an upgrade. It is a forced downgrade. GPT-5 hallucinates. It forgets context. It feels unstable and inconsistent.”https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/08/openai-gpt-5-ai-model-user-backlash-criticism.html Overnight, eight models disappeared. No backup. No warning. Imagine …

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BNPL loans and utility bills are going into your credit score. FICO’s new models launch this fall. S.1465 opens the door for energy firms to report usage.

The credit system is about to get rewired. Not with a press release. Not with a Fed rate tweak. This one’s buried in the fine print of S.1465, the Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2025. It’s sitting in committee right now, but the effects are already bleeding into the ecosystem. FICO confirmed it. Two …

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OpenAI prices soar, rivals flood market with faster cheaper models; Altman faces revolt after board accused him of abuse and deception

SAM ALTMAN PROMISED TO SHARE AGI WITH THE WORLD—NOW HE’S CASHING IN 5 years ago, Sam Altman told investors OpenAI wouldn’t chase profit. No business model. Just build AGI, ask it how to make money, and take 0.001% of the value while sharing the rest with humanity. Now? OpenAI is a for-profit powerhouse, with closed …

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