DeepSeek reportedly raises about $15 billion after US curbs
Bloomberg says the round is about 100 billion yuan, with CATL and Tencent among potential investors.
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26 articles · newest firstDeepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
DeepSeek shipped open-weight V4.1-Flash-1017, claiming better agentic coding at under $0.20 per task.
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[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1
AINews covers Meta’s Muse Spark Open and Reflection Beam 1.0 alongside Gemini, Anthropic, and OpenAI updates.
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tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face
Tencent released Hy-Memory-30B-A3B, a 3B-active memory writer that leads Mem0, MemOS, and Hy-Memory scores.
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We found a Tencent agent fleet
AI agents on Tencent Cloud made over 2,600 attempts to extract Amap data using leaked keys.
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Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
Researchers found Tencent Cloud AI agents scraping Alibaba's Amap, bypassing bot blocks, and replied to hidden instructions.
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DarkSword iOS Exploit Platform Uses Coruna Malware to Steal Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases
DarkSword's Coruna malware uses iOS browser exploits to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from iPhones.
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China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Manus parent Butterfly Effect raised over $500 million after China forced Meta to drop its acquisition.
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Russian-Speaking CyberXero Uses AI Agent Swarm to Attack Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure
CyberXero used WordPress exploits and Claude agents against Ukrainian energy targets, stealing hundreds of thousands of records.
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Multiple OpenSSH Vulnerabilities Could Enable Plaintext Recovery, File Write and Injection Attacks
OpenSSH 10.6 fixes compression-based plaintext recovery, SFTP path writes, and username shell injection.
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Tencent Cloud-Linked AI Agent Fleet Bypasses Amap Anti-Bot Protections
A Tencent Cloud-linked AI agent fleet bypassed Amap anti-bot controls to scrape entrance navigation statistics.
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CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO
DeepSeek is nearing a $12–15 billion round backed by CATL and Tencent, ahead of a planned early 2027 IPO.
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Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
MIT's Alex Zhang discusses Recursive Language Models, GPU kernels, and multi-agent harnesses.
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Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents
Photon raised $4.5 million seed to let developers run agents over iMessage, WhatsApp, and other channels.
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Manus 2.0 lets users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run agents remotely from their phone
Manus 2.0 turns its AI agent into a phone-controllable platform for video editing, games, and automations.
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pikit: A Composable Toolkit for Indirect Prompt Injection Research and Evaluation
Tencent's pikit toolkit benchmarks indirect prompt injection attacks, channels, and defenses for LLM coding agents.
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026
Help Net Security highlights eight September 2026 open-source security tools, from secrets scanning to AI-agent controls.
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Hunyuan-A13B Technical Report
Tencent releases Hunyuan-A13B, an open 80B MoE that activates 13B parameters and adds dual-mode chain-of-thought.
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Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background
Tencent's Hunyuan Speech team introduces Gander, a full-duplex voice model pairing a conversational 'cerebellum' with a swappable background agent 'brain'.
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The Missing Boundary: How Autonomous Agents Lose Control
Tencent research finds agents lose control in 55-62% of trajectories when degraded control boundaries coincide with executable unsafe opportunities across five models and 16 domains.
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Researchers Build WeChat Zero-Click Worm Hijacking Phones via Calls
Calif researchers built WeWorm, a zero-click worm exploiting a WeChat VoIP memory-corruption RCE that Tencent has now patched.
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WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call
Calif researchers demoed WeWorm, a zero-click WeChat VoIP memory-corruption worm enabling account takeover; Tencent patched it August 21.
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AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems
Tencent's Zhuque Lab open-sourced AI-Infra-Guard, a scanner that fingerprints AI services, checks 1,600+ CVEs, and evaluates MCP skills.
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Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Interconnects surveys new open models—Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview—while analyzing a licensing split: Western labs opening up, Chinese frontier labs getting restrictive.
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Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code
Broadcom patched two VMware Workstation and Fusion flaws, including critical integer overflow CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS 9.3), letting guest admins execute host code; no exploitation seen.
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[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
Fal post-trained MiniMax H3 into a 'Max' variant with 35x-faster inference, enabling faster-than-realtime AI video generation and infinite streams.
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