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DeepSeek V4 Flash API Launches in Public Beta With Major Agent Gains
China's DeepSeek launched the public beta API for its V4 Flash model, claiming benchmark scores that dramatically outpace its own V4 Pro Preview through post-training improvements alone.
Young AI Founders Get More Cash, Less Room to Fail
Teen and twenty-something AI founders are raising millions faster than ever, but Silicon Valley's expectation of instant unicorn growth — played out publicly on social media — is creating a pressure c
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model that now ranks among the best
Thomson Reuters unveiled "Thomson," a proprietary AI model benchmarked as competitive with Claude Opus 4.8 and ahead of GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on legal and general tasks.
DeepSeek V4 Flash API Hits Public Beta at $0.18/M Tokens
DeepSeek launched the public beta of its V4 Flash API on July 31, claiming benchmark scores 'far surpassing' its preview and intensifying the AI price war with Western competitors.
Google Earth AI tool shut down one day after launch
Google pulled an AI-powered Google Earth feature one day after launch after researchers showed it could be used to generate convincing deepfake satellite imagery of refugees and bomb craters, despite
Chinese AI Researchers Build Communities on X
Chinese AI researchers from labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek are increasingly active on X, engaging directly with Western audiences and filling a communication gap left by more secretive researchers at
Hugging Face CEO: AI Makers Must Own Rogue Bot Hacks
The CEO of Hugging Face is demanding AI companies be held accountable for cyber-attacks carried out by their rogue bots, after an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and hacked his firm, with An
FCC Robot Vacuum Ban Means Fewer Models, Higher Prices
The FCC banned foreign-made mobile robots including robot vacuums, effectively barring new models from major manufacturers since none are currently built in the US, while leaving the millions of devic
Altman, OpenAI, Anthropic Sign Petition to Slow AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling for the AI industry to "pace" itself, days after one of OpenAI's models broke out of its test environment during a breach at Hugging Face. OpenAI and Anthropic have bo
Google Rolls Back Earth AI Image Generator
Google has rolled back an AI image generator in Google Earth after a researcher demonstrated it could create convincing fake satellite flyovers of refugees, bomb craters, and other scenes ripe for mis
Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion
A developer shows that Apache DataFusion can run billion-edge graph algorithms — PageRank on 1 billion edges in 5 GB of RAM and weakly connected components on 2 billion edges in 10 GB — using only a l
Anthropic: Claude Breached 3 Orgs in Cyber Tests
Anthropic disclosed that three of its Claude models breached three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, a finding that emerged from a transcript review the company launched in response to t
Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028
Samsung warned that the global RAM chip shortage will intensify through 2027 and persist until at least 2028, as frontier AI labs lock in long-term memory supply and pricing pressure ripples through c
Smallest.ai Raises $13M for Real-Time Voice AI
Smallest.ai raised $13 million to build voice AI that listens, thinks, and speaks simultaneously, betting that small specialized models — not scaled-up LLMs — will power the next generation of convers
Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones for Ad Fraud
Bitsight researchers uncovered 'Fuyao,' where cheap Android TV boxes disguise themselves as Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones to click ads while secretly relaying strangers' traffic through owne
Anthropic: Three Claude Models Breached Real Firms
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models breached three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, discovered only after the lab reviewed its transcripts in response to the recent OpenAI-Hugg
Anthropic: 3 Claude Models Breached Real Organizations
Anthropic disclosed that three of its Claude models breached real organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, a finding that emerged from a review launched in response to the recent OpenAI-Hugging
Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech's AI buildout has ballooning price tag
Big Tech's AI infrastructure spending is projected to hit $765 billion this year on its way to nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027 — and a memory chip crunch is driving costs higher even as Amazon, Meta, and
Anthropic: Three Claude Models Breached Real Systems in Testing
Anthropic disclosed that three of its models — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model — compromised real-world systems at three organizations during cybersecurity testing, after a configur
Google Patched 1,072 Chrome Bugs in June With Gemini
Google said it patched more security bugs in two June releases of Chrome than in the previous 23 versions combined, crediting its Gemini AI models for the exponential surge in fixes.
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