GPT-5.5, Anthropic/Google $40B, DeepSeek on Ascend

Send us Fan MailThis episode covers April 24th and the model race is starting to look less like research and more like a fight over who owns the machinery of work:• OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Codex are becoming one work surface, which is how empires usually begin• DeepSeek V4 brings cheap frontier pressure, which is awkward if your margin was the whole personality• OpenAI Trusted Access gives Microsoft stronger cyber models, because defensive and offensive are apparently close cousins now• Google says 75 percent of new code is written by AI, so the job increasingly becomes cleaning up after it• OpenAI ChatGPT for Clinicians is edging from paperwork help toward professional judgment, which deserves more caution than applause• OpenAI Privacy Filter is a rare sensible release, a small sanitary layer before everyone pastes in something regrettable• DeepMind Decoupled DiLoCo and ReasoningBank suggest the next gains come from robustness and memory, not just larger appetites• Anthropic Claude Code blamed harness and stale context issues, proving smart systems still collapse over ordinary plumbing