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Sat, Oct 17
DeepSeek upgrades to V4.1-Flash-1017, switching its web, app and API to the new model
Model upgrades are increasingly sold on getting the same answer faster and cheaper rather than better answers, which matters more for agents than benchmark scores.
Sun, Oct 4
AI Financing Weekly (Week 1 of October): Anthropic's prospectus surfaces with a $42 billion net loss last year and at least $518 billion of compute bills over the next decade, while smart ring maker Oura postpones its IPO
The prospectus reduces a model company's business to arithmetic: revenue can grow twelvefold in a year and still has to outrun a ten-year compute bill that is 80% irrevocable.
Sat, Oct 3
An engineer uses GPT-6 Astra to break a Napoleonic-era cipher letter in six hours, and a 217-year-old puzzle is marked solved
General-purpose models have turned breaking old ciphers from a craft of a few specialists into something any patient person can attempt, so what history will run short of is verifiers, not solvers.