DeepSeek released the v4.1-Flash-1017 model checkpoint on Hugging Face.
Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Image Klein, a new image-generation model release.
Anthropic reportedly pitched Congress an AI safety bill constraining when government can block model releases.
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico : Sources: Anthropic pitched its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers; the bill would limit the circumstances in which the government could block a model's release — Representatives for the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill …
Anthropic reportedly seeks $9B from Blackstone toward a $60B TPU debt-financing package.
Financial Times : Sources: Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance Anthropic's $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs; Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt — High borrowing costs complicate AI lab's goal of achieving investment-grade status — Anthropic is offering Blackstone …
Anthropic documents falling entry-level technical hiring and productivity shifts inside the company.
Anthropic : Anthropic report on how AI is changing employment at the startup: decline of entry-level technical hiring, productivity boom across departments, and more — How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic? As a company at the frontier of AI adoption, Anthropic could be a leading indicator …
Apple tightened App Review rules targeting AI nudify apps and undisclosed post-review capabilities.
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac : Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review — Apple updated its App Review Guidelines today with a series of changes meant to strengthen protections against harmful content and deceptive app review practices.
Workday agreed to acquire C1.ai, an identity-management platform for human and AI agents.
Malia Spencer / Portland Business Journal : Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M — Software company C1, whose headquarters has fluctuated between San Francisco and Portland, is being acquired by California-based Workday Inc. (Nasdaq: WDAY).
A developer reports an unauthorized integration scanned their secrets, spotlighting supply-chain permissions.
Postgres 19 was delayed after AI-assisted review surfaced more bugs than maintainers could fix.
Anthropic describes using Claude to design more efficient quantum circuits.
A live demo shows Gemini 4 Argon playing StarCraft through the Starskirmish environment.
This research asks how fast System 1 LLMs can demonstrate System 2-style competencies.
An analysis argues agent harness design is central to energy and token efficiency.
An internationalization input bug reportedly caused Anthropic Console to charge a card 100×.
Llmspeed lets buyers benchmark expected local-LLM speed before choosing hardware.
rStation launches a shared research-lab environment for coordinating AI agents.
Financial Times profiles Alexandr Wang's role in Meta's AI overhaul and succession speculation.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times : A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor — The 29-year-old in charge of the company's Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
Anthropic surveys staff and US adults on AI progress, including expectations for Nobel-level discoveries.
Anthropic : Survey of Anthropic staffers and US adults: 39% of US adults vs. 91% of staffers expect AI will be able to make a Nobel-level discovery by 2030, and more — Key findings — US adults expect AI capabilities to advance rapidly in the coming years; Anthropic staff expect even faster progress …
Kioxia has reportedly lost two-thirds of its market value since June amid Chinese memory competition.
Kyohei Suga / Nikkei Asia : NAND flash maker Kioxia has lost two-thirds of its market cap since its June peak, when it became Japan's most valuable listed company, as Chinese rivals emerge — TOKYO — Japanese memory chip maker Kioxia Holdings' market value has shrunk to one-third of the peak it reached just four months ago …
The bounty to recover the seeds behind NIST elliptic curves has been claimed.
A technical write-up details exploitation of a 37-year-old kernel bug in OpenBSD.
Rep. Ritchie Torres announced legislation aimed at protecting consumers' ownership of video games.
eBay restricted radio-equipment listings while exempting gear limited to amateur-radio bands.
Johns Hopkins researchers developed wireless magnetic millirobots for drug delivery inside beating hearts.
A developer rebuilt the RealWorld reference application entirely in Lean 4.
Language-oriented programming advocates present a model for intuitive concurrency across languages.
A practical explainer covers RFC 8950, which permits IPv4 routes with IPv6 next hops.
A C++26 overview explains the new standard debugging header.
A hardware-security teardown traces Wi-Fi secrets through UART lockdowns and damaged flash.
The Verge interviews Benn Jordan on Flock license-plate readers and the backlash to surveillance.
Nilay Patel / The Verge : An interview with YouTuber Benn Jordan, who recently testified in Congress against license plate readers, on Flock, privacy, the surveillance backlash, and more — Today, I'm talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist.
FinTech Global : Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners — Reach Security has secured more than $50m in a Series B round led by Top Tier Capital Partners, while unveiling Reach Everywhere …
Mike Butcher / Pathfounders : Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton — He didn't get very far. He discovered that much of the company's operational knowledge just wasn't documented anywhere.
FinSMEs : Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group — Scanntech, a Montevideo, Uruguay-based provider of a retail intelligence, data analytics, and marketing services platform, raised $180M in Series F financing.
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu : London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion — Led by Headline, the funding will support the London-based company's expansion into the US and Asia-Pacific as it tackles lengthy …
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A — Ambient intelligence startup Mistlabs Ltd. today brought its Ambi artificial intelligence system out of beta test on Apple Inc. devices, backed by $26 million in new funding.
Kohei Yamada / Nikkei Asia : Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the Trump administration does not have “any policy” to use a minority stake in Intel to interfere in its business strategy — TOKYO — U.S. President Donald Trump's administration does not have “any policy” to use a minority stake in Intel to interfere …