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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Network Traffic, Not The Outputs)

This study from Suganthan reveals hidden fields in ChatGPT's network traffic that decide which sources get fetched, cited, or ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
TechNode

DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing

The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further ...
Tech Times

Most AI Models Would Run Your Company Into the Ground, Princeton’s CEO-Bench Finds

Princeton’s CEO-Bench gave 14 AI models $1 million to run a simulated SaaS startup for 500 days. Most went bankrupt or lost ...

DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec Signals a New Era for Open-Source AI, Boosting AI Efficiency By 85%

Explore how DeepSeek V4 DeepSpec and Zepu AI's GLM 5.5 are closing the gap with frontier models like Claude Mythos in 2026.
TechRepublic

US Firms Try DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI Costs Rise

US firms are testing China’s DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI costs rise, raising questions about savings, data residency, and risk. Some US companies are taking a closer look at China’s DeepSeek as the ...
VentureBeat

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley's token moat

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s ...
Bloomberg L.P.

DeepSeek Is Now Running Three AI Races at Once

Catherine Thorbecke is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech. Previously she was a tech reporter at CNN and ABC News. When DeepSeek released its highly anticipated V4 model last month, it ...
GitHub

ArcRift — Persistent Memory for AI Coding Tools

You are deep in a complex project. You have had 30 conversations with Claude about your auth flow, database schema, and deployment strategy. You open a new chat — and it is all gone. You spend 10 ...
Psychology Today

Are You Authoring Your Life or Running a Script?

Watch the ghosts in Pac-Man long enough, and they start to feel personal. They chase, they corner, they seem to want you. They don’t. Each ghost works on a few simple instructions: if the player moves ...
Variety

Producer Doval Bacall Set to Launch Your Script Produced! Film Festival

UTA-represented independent financier and producer Doval Bacall is launching the first Your Script Produced! Film Festival, set to run in Los Angeles Nov. 14 and 15. The festival will unspool parallel ...