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Gartner published a forecast Monday that AI inference costs per agentic workflow will increase more than fivefold through 2028.
ECB economists call the AI rally a probable correction
ECB economists argued in a Monday blog post that the case for expecting a correction does not depend on whether today's prices are rational.
A Trump-linked crypto rail resells restricted Chinese models
Reuters reported Monday that Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong venture, WorldClaw, offering AI models from Chinese firms flagged for national security concerns.
Anthropic publishes the mechanics of Claude's EU watermarks
Anthropic detailed the invisible watermarking scheme it will apply to Claude output to meet EU AI Act transparency requirements — the mechanics behind the announcement covered on 08-11.
OpenAI runs its flagship on Cerebras at 14× GPU speed
OpenAI's flagship reasoning model just detached from the GPU stack for a named subset of customers — and the numbers are the story.
Western labs cut API prices up to 80% as Chinese rivals reset the floor
The FT framed the OpenAI–Anthropic pricing conflict as structurally driven by Chinese cost pressure, and the concrete cuts are now on the record.
The "cheap Chinese AI" narrative wobbles as DeepSeek reportedly hikes prices
The same cycle delivered Grok 4.6 at a reported ~60% undercut and DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813, alongside WSJ reporting DeepSeek is raising prices fourfold — a whipsaw for switching-cost models.
Apple becomes the first foreign firm cleared to run its own AI model in China
Reuters reported Friday that Apple trained an LLM specifically for the China market with Alibaba's support, a departure from its prior plan to rely entirely on Chinese third-party models.
Hyperscaler AI bonds are now dragging global credit portfolios
The FT's hyperscaler-borrowing story lands against a documented backdrop: AI bonds from Big Tech are underperforming across major global indices, and passive investors can't opt out.
Anthropic investors float a $2T October IPO — the largest ever
The Financial Times reported Thursday that Anthropic backers expect an October listing at $2 trillion or more, which would be the largest IPO in history.
Anthropic in talks to buy Decart AI for $6B in efficiency bet
Bloomberg reported Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for about $6 billion — what would be its largest acquisition to date, ahead of the IPO.
Cognition already sounding out a $40B raise, three months after $26B
Bloomberg reported Cognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, is in early talks to raise at a $40B valuation — a 54% step-up from its May round.