AI Agents Rise as Google Spikes Prices and Apple M5 Chip Gets Hacked in 5 Days
The AI world is a wild west where autonomous agents build entire operating systems, corporations like Google and Anthropic quietly squeeze developers for cash, and hardware security gets absolutely obliterated.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash directly into general availability, pitching it as the default model for agents and coding. While the model boasts a massive speed of 280 tokens per second and a million-token context window, the price tag skyrocketed by 5.5 times compared to the previous Flash version, effectively killing the cheap fast model category and turning it into a premium product.
Alongside the model, Google rolled out Antigravity 2.0, a full agent execution environment that lets autonomous agents run bash, python, and node in a Linux sandbox. To show off, a swarm of 93 parallel sub-agents built a functional operating system in just 12 hours, burning through 2.6 billion tokens for under a thousand dollars in API credits.
Meanwhile, the competition is shifting from raw intelligence to who has the best developer harness. OpenAI turned Codex into a platform that can control your Mac from a phone even when the computer is locked. On the open-source side, DeepSeek permanently slashed prices for V4 Pro by 75%, making it nearly twenty times cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 while matching it in capability. Apparently, burning cash is still the preferred marketing strategy in Beijing.
Over at Anthropic, the mood was tense after the company quietly restricted programmatic API usage for paid Claude subscribers, triggering a massive wave of cancellations. They quickly raised limits to stop the bleeding, all while boasting a valuation near $900 billion and hiring Andrej Karpathy to automate AI research.
But the most sobering news came from the security front, where researchers used the Mythos Preview model to find the first public memory corruption vulnerability on Apple’s M5 chip. The hardware-level security that took Apple five years to design was completely bypassed in just five days, escalating the digital arms race to terrifying speeds.
The illusion of secure hardware and cheap intelligence is officially dead. As tech giants raise prices and AI tools easily dismantle elite encryption, the industry is entering an era where only those with infinite budgets and zero expectations of privacy will survive.
Source: calif.io
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