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Gabbard Rescinds Intelligence Committee Reports On Mysterious Syndrome Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has retracted intelligence community reports on mysterious health problems known as Havana Syndrome, according to a memorandum released on June 11. Gabbard found that the intelligence community assessments of the anomalous health incidents, released in 2023 and 2025, failed to meet the community’s analytic standards. That included selectively excluding intelligence and evidence that did not support the conclusions and relying on an “ethically flawed medical study without noting methodological critiques,”...

"This Is Not Normal": China's DeepSeek Cuts New AI Model Fees, Again DeepSeek senior researcher Victor Chen announced on X that the company's newly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro model will be offered at a huge discount over the next week, a move that threatens to unleash an AI platform price war just as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are rolling out newer, more expensive models. "Second price drop in two days! On top of the base 75% off, stack an extra 90% discount for cache hits. That brings it down to just 0.003625 USD/0.025...

Charles Schwab, JPMorgan Restrict Third-Party AI Agents Over Security Risk Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Some of Wall Street's largest financial firms are blocking third-party artificial intelligence agents from directly accessing customer accounts or moving money, citing concerns about security, control, and accountability if an autonomous system makes a mistake. Charles Schwab, which reported $13.3 trillion in client assets at the end of the third quarter, is one of the latest firms to draw that line. "We are blocking unauthorized agents who try to log in on behalf of clients,"...