AI Tools & Developer Utilities DeepSeek announced that its 75% temporary price cut on V4-Pro is now permanent, dropping top-tier API pricing from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens ahead of its scheduled May 31 expiry. Benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis rated V4-Pro the global leader for cost-efficiency per unit of intelligence, putting sustained downward price pressure on OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic offerings. Engadget
Global Macro & Markets The IEA's May oil market report projected that global inventories will draw down at a record pace through June even under an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows gradually resume, with Brent crude pinned near $120 and total supply losses since February reaching 12.8 million barrels per day. Markets are increasingly watching the US-Iran diplomatic track as the primary variable that could relieve energy inflation pressure on both consumer prices and Fed policy. IEA
Software Engineering & Architecture GitHub confirmed that threat actor group TeamPCP exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories through a trojanized Nx Console VS Code extension that was live on the Visual Studio Marketplace for only 18 minutes on May 18, harvesting GitHub tokens, AWS keys, npm credentials, and developer configuration files before detection. The incident renewed scrutiny on extension supply chain security and how briefly a compromised package can linger while causing outsized damage across developer environments. unrot.co