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AI News: 18 Breaking Stories You Missed This Week
OpenAI
Matt Wolfe

AI News: 18 Breaking Stories You Missed This Week

3 min read1 May 2026
TL;DR
Matt Wolfe covers 18 AI news stories from the week, including DeepSeek V4's near-state-of-the-art performance at a fraction of competitor pricing, the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial going poorly for Musk, Anthropic's billing controversy over harness detection, and Google signing a Pentagon AI deal despite employee protests.
Key points
1
DeepSeek V4 is open-source with 1M token context, priced at $1.74/M input tokens vs GPT-5.5 at $5/M and Claude Opus 4.7 at $5/M, while performing near state-of-the-art on benchmarks
2
The Musk vs. Altman trial began this week; Musk performed poorly on the stand, refusing yes/no answers and arguing with attorneys, with one Verge reporter saying she had never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman
3
Anthropic was caught charging users extra or blocking them when code contained strings like 'Hermes' or 'OpenClaw', affecting Claude Max subscribers; they eventually issued refunds after the story went viral with over 1M views
4
Google signed a deal with the Pentagon allowing AI use for any lawful government purpose, contradicting a 2014 promise made to DeepMind founders and drawing a 600-employee protest letter to Sundar Pichai
5
Mayo Clinic developed an AI model that can detect pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to 3 years before clinical diagnosis, identifying disease before tumors are visible
Actionable insights
Enterprises spending heavily on closed API models like GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus should evaluate open-weight models like DeepSeek V4 or Mistral Medium 3.5 for significant cost savings and privacy benefits
Developers using Claude Code should audit their repos and commit messages for strings like 'Hermes' or 'OpenClaw' to avoid unexpected billing routing or service blocks from Anthropic
OpenAI models are now available on AWS following the restructured Microsoft partnership removing exclusivity, meaning multi-cloud AI deployments are now more viable
Notable quotes

After about 5 hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence. I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.

Most of the time what we get is like, hey, making Excel spreadsheets is a little bit easier now. We need more stories like this to come out, like actually detecting cancers earlier and curing cancers and solving real actual problems.

There is a certain class of bugs that suggests the thing you are trying to do is a bad idea. Worth reflecting on that.

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All 18 stories are fully covered here with the key facts, pricing figures, and drama details intact — skip the video unless you want to hear Matt's commentary and see the live demos.
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