Max and Mina break down DeepSeek’s V3.2-Exp long-context architecture and steep price cuts; California’s new SB 53 AI law on transparency and incident reporting; OpenAI’s Sora feed philosophy balancing creativity, control, and safety; Extract‑0’s specialist model approach to document extraction; Elon Musk’s Grokipedia announcement; senior departures from xAI and Tesla and their implications; Pop!_OS 24.04 beta’s Rust‑based COSMIC desktop; and Google Home’s new “Ask Home” Gemini chat. Key themes: falling inference costs, safety and governance as product features, and the rise of small, task‑focused models.

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