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Open source

Weights, licenses, and the panic that shows up on launch day.

Sam Altman seated on the TED stage in April 2025. Photo by Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

News

DeepSeek’s latest drop forces another round of price cuts

An open-weight model that is good enough is now a pricing event, not a research paper. The closed labs are answering the only way they still know how.

ByMaya ChenNews EditorSeptember 18, 2026Updated September 19

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Opinions

The open-source AI panic is a business model, not a security briefing

Every cycle, a closed lab discovers that weights on a torrent are an existential risk — right after a competitor ships them. The threat is real. The timing is the tell.

ByJordan HaleColumnistSeptember 17, 2026