DeepSeek ships a faster V4.1 Flash ⚡, Anthropic builds AI negotiators 🤝, AI debt worries spread 📉

Every AI vendor reports a resolution rate. No two calculate it the same way, and none of them tell you whether the replies were actually good.

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DeepSeek pushed out a leaner update to its Flash model, and Anthropic is asking law firms how to negotiate as it builds agents that bargain for you.

DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 · bloomberg.com
DeepSeek says the update scores better on benchmarks, finishes tasks faster and gives shorter outputs than the version before it.

Anthropic is consulting law firms on negotiation tactics · ft.com
The FT's sources say it is building AI agents that negotiate on people's behalf and deal with other AI agents on the other side.

An OpenCode breach hit about 1.4% of OpenCode Console users · startupfortune.com
Anomaly Innovations says those users' API keys were affected in what it calls a large scale distillation attack, so rotate your keys if you use it.

AI trade reversal hits Asia's picks-and-shovels stocks · bloomberg.com
A deepening selloff in US tech stocks is raising fears that higher financing costs could choke off the spending behind the AI boom.

AI debt worries grow as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15% · nytimes.com
Insuring SoftBank's debt is getting pricier too, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar.

Microsoft cancels its anchor tenant deal with Nscale · telegraph.co.uk
Microsoft had planned to rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at a data center in Essex, UK that has faced repeated delays.

Disney agrees to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI · bloomberg.com
A filing shows Disney would pay them about $180M over three years plus $30M in retention awards, if a bankruptcy judge approves.

Meta removes terms that suggested it could scrape news sites · theverge.com
After backlash, Meta says the language only ever applied to its ads and business products.

Google says magic state cultivation works on its Willow quantum chip · blog.google
Google calls it a breakthrough that cuts errors by about 40x.

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