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OpenAI is reportedly weighing sharp cuts to its token pricing in a bid to undercut Anthropic, but the move carries an uncomfortable irony. DeepSeek already demonstrated that frontier-level AI can be delivered at a fraction of current costs, essentially making the argument for cheaper models before Sam Altman had to.
That price pressure feeds directly into a bigger question circulating this week — what happens if the AI investment bubble actually pops? Analysts are sketching out scenarios where capital dries up faster than the technology matures, leaving a landscape of half-built products and overextended companies. The pattern rhymes with past cycles, even if the underlying technology is genuinely different this time.
Meanwhile, Coinbase is sounding an early alarm on quantum computing and Bitcoin, urging developers to begin post-quantum migration work now rather than waiting for a crisis. Their advisory council warns that dormant and abandoned wallets holding vulnerable coins could become one of the network's most contested problems as quantum capabilities advance. The window to act, they say, is narrowing.
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