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U.S. Agencies Must Rip Out DeepSeek!

U.S. agencies drop DeepSeek! Today's 10 AI stories: DeepSeek opens its engine, One hacker, 100+ sites, Microsoft's agent leash, WhatsApp's secret notes, Mercury 3 hits 1,068 tok/s, 10-sec video in 12 seconds, Amazon's shot at Nvidia, OpenAI eyes $1.4 trillion, Making TVs dumb again.

10 stories in this episode

  1. 01

    U.S. agencies drop DeepSeek

    Homeland Security ordered U.S. federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek.

  2. 02

    DeepSeek open-sources its engine

    DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference engine it says runs its own service.

  3. 03

    One hacker, 100+ sites

    Reuters says a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to break into the websites of more than 100 companies.

  4. 04

    Microsoft's agent controls

    Microsoft wants companies to treat AI agents like insiders on a leash, with controls built into its new tools.

  5. 05

    WhatsApp's hidden AI notes

    WhatsApp's help pages had hidden instructions telling AI not to send you to a regulator.

  6. 06

    Mercury 3 diffusion model

    Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion language model running at over 1,000 tokens per second.

  7. 07

    10-second video in 12 seconds

    fal and Black Forest Labs say FLUX 3 Max can make a 10-second video in about 12 seconds.

  8. 08

    Amazon's shot at Nvidia

    Amazon launched TorchNeuron in public beta, so ordinary PyTorch code can run on its own chips instead of Nvidia's.

  9. 09

    OpenAI's $1.4T fundraise

    Reuters reports OpenAI is racing to raise about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion.

  10. 10

    AI makes smart TVs dumb

    TechCrunch reports people are pointing coding agents at their smart TVs to strip them back down.