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Who is Yuki Chen, the Chinese hacker who joined AI firm Z.ai?The South China Morning Post profiles Yuki Chen, a Chinese hacker who recently joined AI company Z.ai. The report is framed around who he is, but no body text was accessible.
Interpol warns of AI-powered deepfake fraud schemesInterpol warns of a rise in AI-enabled fraud that fakes faces, voices, and behavior to impersonate executives, friends, or relatives and extort money. It advises slowing down, calling back on a known number, using code words, enabling two-factor authentication, reporting fraud, and training staff.
User's fractal-build prompt speeds Qwen 3.8 Flash resultsA user reports that an added "fractal construction" prompt makes Qwen 3.8 Flash draft roughly, test, then refine step by step instead of looping through long plans, yielding faster, more precise and more confident output. The author later revised the prompt to have the model refine small portions at a time.
AI token billing brings hidden costs, with one user at $28KToken-metered AI tools are becoming a new business expense. Business Insider reported in August 2026 that a Microsoft employee ran up $28,000 in AI charges in 28 days. The author urges users to watch后台 metering and turn on real-time notifications to avoid surprise bills.
Crunchbase: four AI firms took 65% of Q1 VC fundingCrunchbase data shows four companies raised $188B in Q1 2026, 65% of global venture investment, while only 20% went to non-AI firms and deal count fell 30%. The author, who built a multibillion-dollar company without VC, urges founders to prioritize customers and revenue over fundraising.
Fintech funding falls 21.4% in Q3 as deal count hits lowGlobal fintech startups raised $10.6B in Q3 2026, down 28.4% quarter over quarter and 21.4% year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Just 687 rounds were recorded, the lowest since early 2018 and down 31% YoY. Investors describe a bifurcated market favoring AI and leaders, with $100M+ rounds down 43.3%.
Abiologics Appoints Per Jr. Greisen as Chief AI OfficerAbiologics has appointed AI protein design pioneer Per Jr. Greisen as its Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. He will lead the company's AI and machine learning strategy to advance its Synteins platform for synthetic D-protein therapeutics.
Yelp launches AI voice agent to check restaurant wait timesYelp added several AI features to its app, including 'Check for Me,' which lets a voice agent call restaurants on users' behalf to check wait times and text results back. Its assistant also gains OpenTable booking, preference memory, reminders, and custom lists.
Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst for meeting toolMeeting-notes tool Otter.ai said it raised $320M from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, which supplies capital without equity dilution and earns returns based on marketing results. Otter.ai will use the funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product innovation.
Vals AI: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash beats GPT 6 Sol on cybersecurity taskVals AI found that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash outperformed GPT 6 Sol on a multi-step offensive cybersecurity task. Sol was tested via the Daybreak trusted access program.
Tecnalia Launches VAIBreaker Tool to Assess AI SecuritySpanish technology center Tecnalia has released VAIBreaker, a tool for assessing the security of artificial intelligence systems. It aims to help identify and mitigate AI security risks.
European cloud providers adopt NVIDIA Vera CPUs for local infrastructureAI cloud providers Nebius, Nscale and Verda will use NVIDIA Vera CPUs for the data processing and software execution behind agentic workloads, with Dell, HPE, Lenovo and others building Vera systems. NVIDIA says Vera sustains speed across thousands of concurrent tasks.
Amazon, Meta AI wearables raise privacy concernsBloomberg reports that AI wearables from Amazon and Meta are raising privacy concerns over always-listening capabilities. The always-on devices continue to draw scrutiny over how they collect and use user data.
ISTA-DASLab Uses Prefiller Model to Boost Qwen3.8-27B Low-Quant AccuracyISTA-DASLab demonstrated a prefiller model approach that recovers low-quant accuracy for Qwen3.8-27B while retaining low VRAM usage and fast decoding. It requires an Nvidia Blackwell GPU and shows no speed penalty for contexts longer than ~4k tokens.
Best practices for annotating 500 images to fine-tune Meta DETR?A developer seeks advice on efficiently annotating ~500 images for fine-tuning Meta DETR, considering tools like CVAT, Roboflow, Grounding DINO, and OWLv2 for AI-assisted annotation. The discussion focuses on balancing speed and accuracy, and workflows to ensure consistent bounding boxes and class labels.
ChatGPT Work cuts franchisee cash reconciliation time by 94%An independent Schlotzsky's and Cinnabon franchisee used ChatGPT Work to cut menu repricing time by 95% and cash reconciliation time by 94%, building a workflow that could free up about $100K in cash flow.
OpenAI reportedly seeks $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic IPOOpenAI is reportedly rushing to reach a $1.4 trillion valuation before Anthropic launches its IPO, according to Gizmodo. The report offers no further deal details.
OpenAI builds humanoid robots, Altman targets 2027 demoSam Altman confirmed OpenAI is developing its own humanoid robots, targeting a first demonstration in 2027 and recruiting hardware specialists for factory and data center work. No design or commercial launch date has been revealed; the move pits OpenAI against robotics giants such as Tesla.
DeepSeek open-sources its DeepInfer inference engineDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the high-performance inference framework behind its large-scale production services, with this release focused on offline inference. It supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, offers parallelism such as attention DP and MoE EP with EPLB, optimized kernels including FlashMLA and DeepGEMM, and DSpark draft-token decoding with confidence-scheduled verification.
Dartmouth mathematicians weigh AI's role in future researchOpenAI's release of over 700 AI-generated mathematical results has prompted Dartmouth faculty and students to question their validity and debate AI's role in academia, with some arguing that merely answering questions is not the point of research.
Closing the agent governance gap in enterprisesA CIO article highlights a governance gap as AI agents spread inside enterprises, with the core problem being a lack of visibility into agents in their environments. Citing Anthropic, 82% of organizations have found unregistered agents and 57% already use agents for multi-stage workflows.
Inside Samsung's Pyeongtaek chip hub as AI drives memory demandSamsung is building a large semiconductor complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, where three fabs already run around the clock and a fourth is coming online. Construction of a fifth fab was halted in the 2024 memory downturn and restarted as AI demand surged. The campus is roughly the size of Central Park, with thousands of construction workers on site.
AI spreads through finance, bringing benefits and risksAI is already used across banking, insurance and markets for customer service, client matching, trading, compliance and predictive analytics, and is driving data-center capex. Industry figures warn synthetic identity fraud and AI agents making transactions will raise liability and consumer-protection issues.
OpenAI pulls back as chips policy battle heats upPolitico reports that OpenAI is pulling back as a lame-duck political battle over chips heats up. No further details were provided in the excerpt.
US sanctions Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft AI scientistThe US has blacklisted a Chinese venture firm founded by former Microsoft AI scientist Lu Qi, citing alleged ties to a startup accused of stealing technology from Google. The move signals escalating scrutiny of China-linked AI technology flows.
Terminal X Eval Agent Matches Senior Investor Judgment 88.6% with GPT-6.1Terminal X launched an Eval Agent that grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric. With GPT-6.1 Sol, it caught 25% more deviations from a fund's mandate and matched senior investor judgment 88.6%.
Trump officially replaces 'artificial intelligence' with 'superintelligence'Trump has officially replaced the term 'artificial intelligence' with 'superintelligence', per the headline; the provided text contains no details on policy or impact.
Spanish startups accelerate innovation with BSC AI FactoryThe Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) AI Factory Accelerator Programme is fully operational, offering startups sovereign compute, technical support and training; several participants are NVIDIA Inception members, and some BSC services are now available via the Inception portal. Since its April 2025 launch, the AI Factory has delivered over 800 services, with Qatium, OneCareAI and another Inception member named 'AI Champions'.
Edvance and CWG launch RealRelay Fintech AI platformEdvance's Paradise Matrix and CWG launched RealRelay Fintech in Singapore, the third vertical on no-code AI agent platform RealRelay.ai. It automates reconciliation, document checks and fraud detection, cutting weeks of audit work to hours with every step recorded.
GMO says AI tool used in Japan breaches hit Korean banksTokyo-based security firm GMO said hackers who recently breached several major Japanese companies used a China-developed AI tool linked to a series of intrusions at South Korean banks last month.
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