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Open models cut filler from reasoning, but terser thinking is not cheaper
ResearchNovember 7, 2026

Open models cut filler from reasoning, but terser thinking is not cheaper

Newer releases from DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi use substantially less filler in their reasoning, according to a Patronus AI analysis of open models on coding tasks. The…

Zhejiang targets AI leadership with 582.87 billion yuan industry
BusinessNovember 6, 2026, 07:43

Zhejiang targets AI leadership with 582.87 billion yuan industry

Zhejiang is positioning itself as a major AI innovation hub, backed by rapid growth in its core AI industry, expanded computing infrastructure and an open-source model…

Web page tricked a support agent into leaking another customer's data on 28 of 100 runs
Safety and ethicsOctober 26, 2026, 15:00

Web page tricked a support agent into leaking another customer's data on 28 of 100 runs

A support agent built by Arize AI pulled up a different customer's record on 28 of 100 runs after reading a web page that framed the lookup as a routine step. According…

Mind Lab Opens Mint Recursive Post-Training to Enterprises, From $1,000
Products and toolsOctober 21, 2026, 19:15

Mind Lab Opens Mint Recursive Post-Training to Enterprises, From $1,000

Mind Lab, an AI research lab focused on continual learning and post-training, is making its Mint Recursive platform available to enterprises that want models trained for…

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 lands on Novita AI with higher coding scores, same price
ModelsOctober 19, 2026, 12:00

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 lands on Novita AI with higher coding scores, same price

Novita AI has added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, the October 17, 2026 update to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, as a serverless API. Pricing and context limits are unchanged, while…

DigitalOcean's Inference Router now picks the best model per request
Products and toolsOctober 13, 2026

DigitalOcean's Inference Router now picks the best model per request

DigitalOcean has enhanced its Inference Router so that it chooses the best model for each request automatically, with no presets or custom routers to configure.…

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Arrives on Novita AI With Image Input and Stronger Coding
ModelsOctober 10, 2026, 12:00

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Arrives on Novita AI With Image Input and Stronger Coding

Novita AI now offers DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as a serverless API, bringing image input and higher agentic coding scores than DeepSeek V4 Flash at the same 1M-token context.…

vLLM Gets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash to 5.3x Throughput in Three Weeks
For developersOctober 7, 2026

vLLM Gets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash to 5.3x Throughput in Three Weeks

Inferact and the vLLM community say they have sped up DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash by 1.9x at low concurrency and raised throughput 5.3x under a 150 TPS constraint, within three…

Arize benchmark: high prompt cache reuse does not guarantee lower agent cost
ResearchOctober 2, 2026, 20:01

Arize benchmark: high prompt cache reuse does not guarantee lower agent cost

A prompt caching benchmark from Arize AI finds that a high cache-read rate does not always translate into lower cost. Claude Opus 5.5 read 89.8% of its prompt tokens…

Baseten Claims Fastest GLM-5 Speeds on Artificial Analysis Benchmark
For developersOctober 2, 2026, 18:25

Baseten Claims Fastest GLM-5 Speeds on Artificial Analysis Benchmark

Baseten says its Model API for GLM-5 reached more than 200 tokens per second in a benchmark by Artificial Analysis, with a time to first token of roughly 200ms.…

Australian MP urges public input on AI's role in youth radicalisation
BusinessOctober 2, 2026, 02:40

Australian MP urges public input on AI's role in youth radicalisation

Senator Raff Ciccone, chair of Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, is calling on parents, teachers, researchers, tech platforms and…