X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

Too much of a good thing can become poison, as DeepSeek appears to be finding out now after it nipped OpenAI's nascent price war in the bud by aggressively cutting the price of its V4 Flash model, unleashing a demand tsunami that its infrastructure simply can't keep up with. DeepSeek unleashed a tsunami of demand with its recent price cuts for the V4 Flash model, forcing an abrupt about-face As we detailed recently, OpenAI launched a literal price war a few days back by discounting its GPT-5.6 Luna by as much as 80 percent, with input tokens now priced at just […]

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Intel has confirmed that its next-gen Clearwater Forest "Xeon 6+" CPUs are now in full production, targeting a launch this year. Intel's Next Big 18A Chip Is On Its Way As Full Production of Clearwater Forest "Xeon 6+" CPUs Commenced Clearwater Forest will be the latest product utilizing the 18A process technology. While the first products, Panther Lake "Core Ultra Series 3" and Wildcat Lake "Core Series 3", aim at the client segment, Clearwater Forest "Xeon 6+" will be positioned within the data center segments, mainly at 6G and Edge AI workloads. In its latest oneAPI Toolkit briefing, Intel confirms […]

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