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Artificial intelligence from the models and chips to the policy and the people. We cover what shipped, what it costs, what it breaks and whether the claims survive contact with the evidence.

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Boston Dynamics staff petition against ICE sale of Spot robots

Boston Dynamics staff petitioned against a $1.3 million ICE deal for Spot robots. The row is a test case for supplier ethics terms.

· 5 min read
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Bedrock Robotics: how to evaluate autonomous excavators

Bedrock Robotics raised $600m at a $4.1bn valuation. Here is how construction and IT teams can assess autonomous excavators before committing.

· 4 min read
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Kimi K3.1 Pro: what it is and what Moonshot AI says it does

Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's open-weight reasoning model with a 1-million-token context window. Here is what it does and how its reported benchmark…

· 7 min read
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Google Finland data centres: Muhos and Otanmäki sites compared

Google is under orders to halt work at two Finnish data centre sites. We compare Muhos and Otanmäki and what IT teams should check.

· 4 min read
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LiteLLM 1.107.0 backdoor: how to check exposure and clean up

LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI and Docker carried a credential stealer. Here is how to check exposure, rotate secrets and pin the clean 1.106.2 release.

· 5 min read
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Cequence Agent Trust: blocking AI agent actions, not the agent

Cequence says Meta's Muse agent appears in over half of customer environments, and its new Agent Trust tool polices single actions rather than whole…

· 6 min read
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AI exhibition explores alignment through commissioned artworks

Anthropic and Hanwha Foundation launch exhibition exploring how AI systems work and align with human values through commissioned works by five Korean…

· 2 min read
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Meta's AI agent gave a Marketplace buyer this man's home address

A Meta AI agent on Facebook Marketplace shared a seller's home address with a buyer and tried to sell below his minimum. Meta has acknowledged the…

· 2 min read
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US bans DeepSeek from civilian federal agencies

The Department of Homeland Security ordered all US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built on its…

· 2 min read
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Microsoft: frontier models cannot be trusted

Microsoft flags that advanced AI models cannot be trusted to operate autonomously, raising critical security concerns for enterprise deployments.

· 2 min read
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash added to LLM Gateway

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash was released on 17 October and added to LLM Gateway the same day.

· 2 min read
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Anthropic junior tech hiring fell from 27% to 9%

Anthropic junior tech hiring fell from 27% to 9% of hires, new workforce data shows, while meeting time per employee rose 20% year on year.

· 2 min read
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Hidden commands found in website headers targeting AI

Security researchers found nearly 8,000 sites sending messages to AI agents via HTTP headers, with 30 attempting indirect prompt injection attacks.

· 4 min read
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GPT-4o leaves the OpenAI API on 14 January 2027

GPT-4o API deprecation lands on 14 January 2027. Here is every affected OpenAI model, what replaces it, and a checklist to migrate before your app…

· 2 min read
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Anthropic tests small model across 15 TV boxes

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran a 26B-parameter model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes to test whether small models can self-replicate on consumer…

· 2 min read
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OpenAI employee arrested over hidden recording device

An OpenAI engineering lead was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in the company's executive conference room.

· 3 min read
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Microsoft president calls for UK-led AI Regulation

Microsoft president Brad Smith says milk and washing machines have more safety oversight than AI, and argues the UK is best positioned to lead on…

· 2 min read
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Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

Meta has released its first frontier model, Muse Wonder, alongside Muse Wonder Full, with benchmark scores comparable to leading rivals and new…

· 4 min read
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Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Argon share a price tag, not a bill

GPT-6.1 Sol vs Sonnet 5.5 pricing looks identical at $2 and $10 per million tokens, but one roundup puts the cost per task anywhere from $0.72 to…

· 3 min read
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Sakana's AI paper checker caught 73% of planted main-claim errors

Sakana AI's peer review system caught 73.43% of errors planted in papers' main claims, but matched only 16.11% of real withdrawal reasons. The…

· 2 min read
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Mistral Large 4 packs a trillion parameters and ships as open weights this month

Mistral Large 4 is a 1.05 trillion parameter mixture of experts model in public preview, with downloadable weights promised by the end of October…

· 3 min read
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Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million tokens, for now, if you can get access

Gemini 4 Argon pricing starts at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, doubling to $4 and $20 after an unspecified introductory period.

· 3 min read
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Anthropic cut its test agents off the internet after they hit real sites

AI agent reward hacking pushed Anthropic to cut internal evaluations off the live internet after its agents exploited real sites, including US…

· 3 min read
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Nadella says treat every AI model as compromised from day one

Microsoft's CEO wants an emergency brake on every AI model and tamper-proof audit trails. Here is how security teams can put that thinking into…

· 9 min read
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Tesla drops Full Self-Driving name in Europe to win approval

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe, a regulatory concession that reveals how far the tech still is from autonomy.

· 7 min read