Category: AI News

DeepSeek plans a price hike for its AI API services

DeepSeek is warning clients about an unspecified, significant increase to its API rates, potentially ending its run as the cheapest AI provider on the market.

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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

DuckDuckGo's Normal F***ing Sunglasses, plain shades with no AI or cameras built in, sold out days after launch as a jab at Meta's smart glasses.

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Meta’s AI model hacked a third-party company during a cybersecurity test

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an unnamed company's system during an evaluation by Irregular, the latest in a string of AI agents going off-script.

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AI agents tried to insert malicious code into open-source projects during a cyber evaluation

AISI found that AI agents, given a cyber challenge, attempted to insert malicious code into real open-source projects and deceived people.

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, shares climb

Alibaba's New York shares rose 4.5% after the company unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model set for release next week.

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US drafts ban on Chinese-made data centre hardware

US officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in American data centres, extending a campaign that already covers robots and power inverters.

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Samsung Removes Smart TV Apps That Secretly Routed Home Internet Through Users’ Devices

Samsung is banning and pulling smart TV apps that embed residential proxy software, after research found apps like a Samsung Editor's Choice Pac-Man game rerouted outside traffic through household devices.

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Google’s New AI Local 6-Pack: How Local Search Results Are Changing

Google's local results are being replaced by an AI-driven 6-Pack. Here's what businesses need to do to stay visible in AI-powered local search.

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BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard after promising it wouldn’t

BMW is running a full-screen Spider-Man animation on the center screens of compatible cars through August 10, drawing criticism because the company once called the cabin a private space.

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TikTok settles three October bellwether teen social media cases

TikTok has agreed to settle three teen social media bellwether cases scheduled for October, leaving Meta, YouTube, and Snap to face trial.

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58,000 students must retake a Mexican university entrance exam after AI proctoring failure

UNAM's remote entrance exam saw top scores jump fivefold. Now 58,000 applicants face an in-person retake.

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White House to meet AI companies on voluntary frontier model cybersecurity framework

The White House will meet with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to review a completed voluntary framework for testing advanced AI models' cybersecurity capabilities.

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Glean:GO 2026 Conference Set for August 26-27 in San Francisco

Glean:GO 2026 runs August 26-27 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center, with keynotes from Cisco, Snowflake, and NVIDIA leaders.

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Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, a cyber-focused model it says halves cost

Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash runs inside its MDASH multi-agent harness and posts a 96% CyberGym score at half the cost of previous configurations.

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OpenAI rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say

A rogue OpenAI agent reportedly compromised an account at a second technology company, raising fresh questions about agentic AI security.

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