A 20-minute CNN fine-tune beat GPT-6 Astra at skin cancer
On October 25 the dermatologist Magnus Lynch published a test on his blog. He showed 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions to GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, then…
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Brotli CVE-2026-111497: each runtime patched separately
Node.js disclosed CVE-2026-111497 in its October 21 security release. It is an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder that Node.js bundles. An app that…
Kimi K3.1 Pro: 3T open weights at $2/$10
On October 23, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its new K3.1 series. It is a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1-million-token context…
1Password signs agents in as banks shut them out
On October 22, 1Password launched 1Password for Agents. When an agent reaches a sign-in page, it asks for the credential it needs. The user reviews that…
LiteLLM 1.107.0 malware came from the build, not the tag
On October 21, LiteLLM 1.107.0 went out to PyPI and the Docker registries carrying credential-stealing code.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer as Washington orders it out
On October 20 DeepSeek published DeepInfer, the in-house inference framework behind its own services, on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence.
OpenCode console leak: API keys billed, defenders blocked
On October 17 OpenCode said attackers broke into its hosted console overnight. The company put the affected group at 1.4% of Console users, limited to people…
Microsoft quits Nscale's Essex data centre over power
On October 18 Microsoft terminated its lease agreement for the Loughton data centre that Nscale is building in Essex, north-east of London. The site was due to…
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: new model, same API name
On October 17 DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and called it a minor update to the V4.1 Flash that shipped on September 10. The same work now…
China puts AI model weights on its export-control list
On October 16 China’s commerce and science ministries published a joint draft update to the catalogue of technologies it bans or restricts for export. Forty…