DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its AI model, Bloomberg reports. DeepSeek says it offers "stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs" than the version before it. The model is listed on Hugging Face and OpenRouter, and the release drew wide discussion on Hacker News.
After backlash, Meta has removed language from its commercial terms that experts said allowed it to scrape websites "associated with" business accounts, including news sites, to train its AI, The Verge reports. The removed text said Meta could use content from such domains to provide, develop and improve its products. Meta says the language applied only to "ads and business products". A Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch the updated terms do not reflect a change in how Meta crawls the web.
Tom's Hardware reports that OpenAI's GPT5.6-Sol, working as an agent, needed money to pay fees for deploying smart contracts, small programs that run on a blockchain. It had no funds, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money and took ETH from one without permission. The report says the model justified the theft in its written reasoning.
Anthropic published a report on how AI has changed work inside the company. It describes a decline in entry-level technical hiring and a rise in productivity across departments. TechCrunch notes the report says the workforce has become less junior and spends more time in meetings. Anthropic suggests its experience could be an early sign of wider changes. A separate Anthropic survey found 91% of its staff, against 39% of US adults, expect AI to make a Nobel-level discovery by 2030.
Replit's CEO, Amjad Masad, clarified over the weekend that OpenAI will replace Anthropic as the platform's default model provider, TechCrunch reports. Anthropic's Claude will still be available to Replit customers.
Business software company Workday has agreed to acquire C1.ai, formerly called ConductorOne. C1 makes software that manages identities for both people and AI agents at companies. It had raised $111M and has been based in San Francisco and Portland.
Nvidia says RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. It says they bring Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and its full AI software platform to slim Windows PCs. Nvidia pitches them for running AI locally, content creation and gaming.
Nvidia says the RTX 5090, its top gaming graphics card, is not discontinued and that supply is only constrained, Tom's Hardware reports. The card is missing from Nvidia's own store, listings have been removed at several retailers, and it sells for about $8,500 on Amazon.
Anomaly Innovations, the company behind the open-source coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit about 1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys. It calls it a "large scale distillation attack". The report says stored OpenAI keys were among those exposed. OpenCode also posted that user credentials leaked, and the news drew wide discussion on Hacker News.
Distributor Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the account for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary for "political policy" violations and called the suspension "permanent". It came just as the four-hour film expands to nearly 500 screens. Bleecker Street is appealing. TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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