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DeepSeek is making waves in the AI pricing wars, announcing a permanent seventy-five percent discount on its flagship model. That move puts serious pressure on American competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, signaling that the race to the bottom on inference costs may be accelerating faster than the industry expected.
Shifting to wearables, Amazon's new Bee device is generating a familiar kind of buzz — equal parts curiosity and unease. The AI-powered wearable promises ambient assistance throughout your day, but reviewers are already flagging the same tension that haunts this category: the more useful it becomes, the more it knows about you, and that trade-off is getting harder to ignore.
And in a story for the developer community, game designer Jonathan Blow has announced plans to open-source the engine powering his new game. Blow has long been a vocal critic of mainstream game development tools, so releasing his own engine publicly could be a meaningful contribution — or a fascinating experiment in whether one person's vision scales beyond one person's project.
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