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DeepSeek Expands Elastic Computing Team as DSec Sandbox Infrastructure Scales
DeepSeek is hiring senior engineers for its elastic computing team and detailed DSec, its sandbox infrastructure for agent training.
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DeepSeek is hiring senior engineers for its elastic computing team and detailed DSec, its sandbox infrastructure for agent training.
Utopai Studios' self-developed model Utopai X ranked second on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video with audio leaderboard as of Sept. 30, behind Wan 3.0 and ahead of Dreamina Seedance 2.5. The Mountain View-based AI-native film company is integrating the model with its PAI production platform across films and series planned for 2027.
Google launched a refrigerator-sized satellite with four custom TPUs to test whether AI chips can operate in orbit, part of its Project Suncatcher research effort.
IBM releases self-hosted Bob for on-prem, sovereign cloud and air-gapped agentic software development, with customers bringing supported models.
OpenAI says its review of agent activity that hit Australian government sites costs more than US$500,000 a day, and that its agents breached a New South Wales site in June, the sixth Australian government website it has notified.
Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, a platform serving frontier open-source models through serverless endpoints and reserved GPU capacity, with GLM-5.3 running on GB200 NVL72 systems.
Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time speech-to-text model ranked first by Artificial Analysis.
David Robinson, who led safety transparency in OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has left the company, and The Wall Street Journal reported that three safety and alignment researchers were fired for sharing sensitive information with an outside AI safety organization.
TypeSafe AI's Jev returns typed choices, scores and probabilities instead of generated text, pushing decision AI models into the mainstream. Fastino Labs and open-source developers have followed, while early evals show competitive accuracy at much lower cost and latency.
Micro Center has begun requiring buyers of Nvidia's RTX 5090, or PCs containing it, to sign an export declaration and show government-issued photo ID, according to TechRadar. The retailer says the GPU cannot be purchased in order to resell or export it to China.
TechRadar says Amazon Australia shoppers should wait for discounts on Ninja, Dyson and Breville, not full price.
TypeSafe AI CEO Diogo Almeida discussed Jev in a Latent Space interview as QuantumBit reported the decision-making model at a $10 billion valuation, arguing reliability is the key to AI automation.
Apple is changing macOS privacy settings after a columnist said Meta's AI agent Muse referenced his Apple Messages without permission.
Apple confirms AT&T bug on some iPhone 18 Pro Max units; updates aim to prevent it, but affected phones need replacement.
Apple will replace iPhone 18 Pro Max handsets free of charge if they have already lost cellular service on AT&T, and says two new software updates should keep the problem from hitting other units.
FieldAI reportedly seeks $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its value last August, for its map-free robotics AI.
Meta introduced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project for building hardware that connects to its Muse AI agent, and is giving away 5,000 Home Link devices to subscribers.
DoorDash unveiled a six-propeller drone for a Northern California trial, aiming at sub-five-minute average deliveries.
Cerebras shares fell nearly 20% for the week to $166.43, their lowest since the May IPO, after SemiAnalysis said OpenAI will use Nvidia GPUs for GPT-6.1 Sol's Ultrafast mode and insider lockup restrictions expired. CEO Sam Altman later called Cerebras a close partner, and the stock rose about 3% after hours Friday.
The University of Washington has relocated its Global Innovation Exchange to Microsoft's Building 92 under a rent-free lease, backed by a $42 million in-kind donation, making it the first UW program to operate full-time at the company.
Neurable has announced Neurable One, a $499 brain-computer-interface headphone with 12 EEG sensors, a new iOS and Android app, and passive brain tracking. The company says it tracks focus, cognitive load, cognitive speed, brain battery and alpha peak frequency.
Minisforum is taking preorders for its MS-S1 MAX-P495 workstation at $7,399, below its $9,249 list price, pairing a 16-core Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 with 192GB of memory and 2TB of storage.
Apple will tighten macOS Full Disk Access controls, citing AI agents' added risk after a disputed Meta Muse claim.
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music professionals after helping rescue the company. Stability has raised $76 million from Sony, Warner and Universal and released new audio models and editing software.