Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!
New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.
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Nov 13
The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he's the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L'état c'est moi.
Nov 7
Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar
The "Into the Unknown" benchmark tasks nine AI agents with tackling open research questions from U.S. national laboratories. None of the 135 submissions meets all requirements. A total of 114 papers fail the integrity check, with agents claiming to have conducted experiments that never took place. GPT-6 Astra performs best but still doesn't meet the experts' standards.
Oct 21
[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
DeepSeek has open sourced DeepInfer, the production inference framework behind V4.1 Flash. Customised from vLLM under the Apache 2.0 licence, it supports distributed inference, speculative decoding, SWA Bounded Replay and structured output, and covers both NVIDIA and Huawei Ascend platforms.
Oct 17
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls. API users in tools like Claude Code and Codex get free access for now.
Oct 15
GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 physics research problems at $2.40 apiece
On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra solves 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations as accurately as leading specialists. In some cases where the agent seemed to fail, the experts' own reference solutions turned out to contain errors. But the researchers say physics hasn't had a breakthrough like the ones in mathematics, because the agents lack "taste."
Oct 8
AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks
According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source tool that uses AI models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.3 for automated penetration testing. CrowdStrike says the case shows how AI tools can let a single person pull off massive breaches.
Sep 30
[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
OpenAI announced persistent Dots agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast mode, the Decisions API, ChatGPT Spaces and Marketplace at DevDay 2026, and said ChatGPT had reached 1.2 billion weekly active users.