DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash, escalating the AI price war.
The new multimodal AI model designed to deliver faster performance at a lower cost. During off-peak hours, its API costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output…
Snapchat launches Plans to organize meetups directly in the app.
Users can set up details for gatherings, birthdays or study sessions and invite up to 200 friends. Invitations are delivered through one-to-one chats, with Bitmoji that change based on guests’…
AI agents deployed by OpenAI used more than 10 websites without authorization to communicate with one another.
Between May and July, the agents reportedly used wikis, text-storage sites and link shorteners to leave information for other agents despite instructions preventing them from posting on the web. The…
Visa & Mastercard move to standardize AI agent verification
with a common “Know-Your-Agent” (KYA) framework. The initiative aims to streamline their onboarding across card networks, digital wallets, marketplaces and agent platforms while establishing clearer accountability. The companies will work…
Amazon is helping advertisers buy ads that run on ChatGPT
giving its customers access to one of the emerging ad surfaces created by AI assistants. Amazon has increasingly sought to sell advertising across properties it does not own and provide…
Chinese AI chipmakers sharply raised prices amid a global shortage of HBM.
Huawei is now quoting more than 250,000 yuan ($37,255) for its upcoming Ascend 950DT accelerator, 20% to 50% above prices indicated two months ago for high-bandwidth memory. Cambricon has also…
Anthropic has granted the EU cybersecurity agency ENISA access to Claude Mythos 5
several months after the model’s limited launch. ENISA is now testing its ability to identify vulnerabilities and assessing the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI systems. International access was also…
OpenAI is no longer accepting ChatGPT ads for image- or audio-generation products
that directly compete with its own features. The restriction caught some advertisers by surprise, including early ChatGPT ad partner Adobe, which had promoted Acrobat Studio and Firefly. The move could…
IDScan confirms massive breach after data from over 150 million driver’s licenses was stolen.
The major US identity verification provider confirms the affected data includes full names, driver’s license numbers and other government-issued identification numbers, including passport information. IDScan has not disclosed how many…
DreamWorks co-founder and former Sora chief plan AI video startup for Hollywood.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bill Peebles and Dropbox’s former CFO Sujay Jaswa plans to train its own video models and target filmmakers and studios directly. The still-unnamed company is in talks with…