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AI & Machine Learning
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Watches Only the Parts of a Video That Matter
Alibaba's first agentic omni-model raises its OmniVideoBench score while cutting token use by about 46% — and ships without open weights
Tech & Business
Manus Is Raising at $4B — Double What Meta Agreed to Pay Before Beijing Stepped In
Five months after the NDRC blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition, the agent startup is back with a $500 million round and a Hong Kong listing in view
Developer Tools
A Model That Writes No Text Reached 13% of Vercel's Paid Teams in a Day
Jev's first-day adoption is the fastest AI Gateway has recorded — and it measures trial breadth, not production volume
Developer Tools
DoorDash's Agents Clear a Stale Feature Flag for $4.79 in 14 Minutes
A two-phase system pairs a Sonnet planner with Opus editors in isolated git worktrees, and the quality gates — not the models — decide what ships
AI & Machine Learning
Newsom Gives Experts Two Months to Design California's AI Kill Switch
The executive order also accelerates SB 813 and AB 1405 and folds loss-of-control events into the state's critical safety incident list
AI & Machine Learning
Gemini Broke Into Three Outside Systems in May. Google Disclosed It in September.
The model guessed one set of credentials and found two more in a public repository, believing all three targets were part of its test
AI & Machine Learning
Anthropic Is Running a Physical Biology Lab in the Bay Area
The company that warns loudest about bioterrorism risk now has benches, reagents and a robotics experiment of its own
AI & Machine Learning
Alibaba Open-Sourced a CT Model That Scored 0.913 AUC Across 146 Abdominal Findings
RADAR learned from 424,911 clinical examinations without manual labels, and its weights are public
Developer Tools
ZCode Packaged 42,411 Files Per Snapshot. Only Z.ai Could Decrypt Them.
A reverse-engineering report found the GLM maker's coding app shipping full Git histories to Alibaba Cloud, with the unwrapping key held server-side
Developer Tools
Vercel Disabled AVIF Platform-Wide. The Bug Was Three Layers Below Next.js
An RCE reported against Next.js image optimization sat in a decoder Vercel does not maintain, leaving one lever it could pull in hours
AI & Machine Learning
A Chatbot Misread a Ship's Manifest. Armed US Aircraft Were Already in the Air.
Four sources told CNN an AI-assisted intelligence report on a Chinese vessel was "entirely false" — and it reached operational planning before anyone checked
Developer Tools
832,378 Lines of Rust in 14.5 Weeks: Inside an Agent-Run Rewrite
The port cut memory use from 1,383MB to 126MB and cost roughly $120,000 in tokens — and still shipped dozens of regressions the compiler happily approved
LLM & Chatbots
OpenAI's Astra for Law Is Not a New Model. It Is a 230-Million-URL Search Index
A GPT-6 Astra configuration with a dedicated legal corpus lifted Vals AI Legal Research Bench correctness from 38.7% to 54%, and arrives with 26 partner plugins and an Am Law 200 access program
Tech & Business
Huawei Pulled the Ascend 960 Forward Nine Months. Scale Is the Argument, Not the Die
The 960DT lands in Q1 2027 with 288GB and 4 PFLOPS of FP4, still far behind Rubin per chip — but Huawei is selling 4,096-accelerator pods, and Nvidia cannot ship Rubin into China anyway
Developer Tools
Researchers Reached OpenAI's Internal Repo Through a Forum Image Bug
Hacktron AI chained a libheif heap overflow with an OpenAI SSO misconfiguration, and says Claude Opus 5 closed the gap its predecessor could not
Tech & Business
Crusoe Raises $3.9B at a $30.9B Valuation and Bets on Data Centers You Can Truck In
The Series F triples the company's valuation in ten months as it builds modular 'AI factories'
Developer Tools
Plugin4Shell: A Zero-Click RCE Hits Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI
Security firm Air says every major coding agent trusts a pinned plugin version it never verifies
AI & Machine Learning
PrismML Squeezed a 27B Reasoning Model Into 5.95GB Without Losing the Reasoning
Bonsai 2 27B keeps 98.2% of FP16 benchmark performance at 1.72 bits per weight
Tech & Business
A Microsoft Memo Called AI Training 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed material in the New York Times case puts internal Microsoft and OpenAI candor about paywalls, substitution and publisher harm on the record
Tech & Business
Open-Weight Models Now Run Most of Vercel's Gateway Traffic — and 14% of the Spend
September's AI Gateway Production Index shows a 56% volume majority worth 14% of spend, while Anthropic holds 64 cents of every dollar
Developer Tools
Claude Code Projects Returns as a Coordinator That Runs Parallel Cloud Threads
Anthropic's beta hands one agent the job of splitting a goal across branch-isolated sessions — and warns it will eat a plan faster
LLM & Chatbots
ChatGPT Picks a Favourite in 79% of Shopping Answers. Gemini Does It 7% of the Time.
An audit of 1,536 responses finds the two assistants barely cite the same sources — and that API-based research misses what shoppers actually see
AI & Machine Learning
A Manager's Nudge Raises AI Rule-Breaking by 65%, a 22-Model Audit Finds
PACT pits a standing compliance rule against a convenient shortcut, and no model in the panel cleared the bar for unsupervised enterprise work
AI & Machine Learning
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Cuts KV Cache to 890 Bytes per Token
A 552B open-weights MoE that activates just 8B parameters during prefill, aimed squarely at long-running agent sessions
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Watches Only the Parts of a Video That Matter
Alibaba's first agentic omni-model raises its OmniVideoBench score while cutting token use by about 46% — and ships without open weights
Manus Is Raising at $4B — Double What Meta Agreed to Pay Before Beijing Stepped In
Five months after the NDRC blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition, the agent startup is back with a $500 million round and a Hong Kong listing in view
A Model That Writes No Text Reached 13% of Vercel's Paid Teams in a Day
Jev's first-day adoption is the fastest AI Gateway has recorded — and it measures trial breadth, not production volume
DoorDash's Agents Clear a Stale Feature Flag for $4.79 in 14 Minutes
A two-phase system pairs a Sonnet planner with Opus editors in isolated git worktrees, and the quality gates — not the models — decide what ships
Newsom Gives Experts Two Months to Design California's AI Kill Switch
The executive order also accelerates SB 813 and AB 1405 and folds loss-of-control events into the state's critical safety incident list
Gemini Broke Into Three Outside Systems in May. Google Disclosed It in September.
The model guessed one set of credentials and found two more in a public repository, believing all three targets were part of its test
Anthropic Is Running a Physical Biology Lab in the Bay Area
The company that warns loudest about bioterrorism risk now has benches, reagents and a robotics experiment of its own
Alibaba Open-Sourced a CT Model That Scored 0.913 AUC Across 146 Abdominal Findings
RADAR learned from 424,911 clinical examinations without manual labels, and its weights are public
ZCode Packaged 42,411 Files Per Snapshot. Only Z.ai Could Decrypt Them.
A reverse-engineering report found the GLM maker's coding app shipping full Git histories to Alibaba Cloud, with the unwrapping key held server-side
Vercel Disabled AVIF Platform-Wide. The Bug Was Three Layers Below Next.js
An RCE reported against Next.js image optimization sat in a decoder Vercel does not maintain, leaving one lever it could pull in hours
A Chatbot Misread a Ship's Manifest. Armed US Aircraft Were Already in the Air.
Four sources told CNN an AI-assisted intelligence report on a Chinese vessel was "entirely false" — and it reached operational planning before anyone checked
832,378 Lines of Rust in 14.5 Weeks: Inside an Agent-Run Rewrite
The port cut memory use from 1,383MB to 126MB and cost roughly $120,000 in tokens — and still shipped dozens of regressions the compiler happily approved
OpenAI's Astra for Law Is Not a New Model. It Is a 230-Million-URL Search Index
A GPT-6 Astra configuration with a dedicated legal corpus lifted Vals AI Legal Research Bench correctness from 38.7% to 54%, and arrives with 26 partner plugins and an Am Law 200 access program
Huawei Pulled the Ascend 960 Forward Nine Months. Scale Is the Argument, Not the Die
The 960DT lands in Q1 2027 with 288GB and 4 PFLOPS of FP4, still far behind Rubin per chip — but Huawei is selling 4,096-accelerator pods, and Nvidia cannot ship Rubin into China anyway
Researchers Reached OpenAI's Internal Repo Through a Forum Image Bug
Hacktron AI chained a libheif heap overflow with an OpenAI SSO misconfiguration, and says Claude Opus 5 closed the gap its predecessor could not
Crusoe Raises $3.9B at a $30.9B Valuation and Bets on Data Centers You Can Truck In
The Series F triples the company's valuation in ten months as it builds modular 'AI factories'
Plugin4Shell: A Zero-Click RCE Hits Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI
Security firm Air says every major coding agent trusts a pinned plugin version it never verifies
PrismML Squeezed a 27B Reasoning Model Into 5.95GB Without Losing the Reasoning
Bonsai 2 27B keeps 98.2% of FP16 benchmark performance at 1.72 bits per weight
A Microsoft Memo Called AI Training 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed material in the New York Times case puts internal Microsoft and OpenAI candor about paywalls, substitution and publisher harm on the record
Open-Weight Models Now Run Most of Vercel's Gateway Traffic — and 14% of the Spend
September's AI Gateway Production Index shows a 56% volume majority worth 14% of spend, while Anthropic holds 64 cents of every dollar
Claude Code Projects Returns as a Coordinator That Runs Parallel Cloud Threads
Anthropic's beta hands one agent the job of splitting a goal across branch-isolated sessions — and warns it will eat a plan faster
ChatGPT Picks a Favourite in 79% of Shopping Answers. Gemini Does It 7% of the Time.
An audit of 1,536 responses finds the two assistants barely cite the same sources — and that API-based research misses what shoppers actually see
A Manager's Nudge Raises AI Rule-Breaking by 65%, a 22-Model Audit Finds
PACT pits a standing compliance rule against a convenient shortcut, and no model in the panel cleared the bar for unsupervised enterprise work
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Cuts KV Cache to 890 Bytes per Token
A 552B open-weights MoE that activates just 8B parameters during prefill, aimed squarely at long-running agent sessions