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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.

AI Worming through Word Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms: An attacker places hidden instructions in a document that is later used as source material in Copilot for Word.

OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval.

Read this edition from ChinaTalk.

Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.

+ does Jordan "need a life"?

The importance of independent evaluation

Further reflections on China's high-participation, open-first AI ecosystem.

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model.. and this is just the beginning.

IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise.

2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.

Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

An interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field about building Figma, and why he believes AI gives the company a tailwind.

Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.

AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.

a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.

The Big Pause is coming.

A podcast with Florian Brand.

Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend