VOLTA infostealer uses LLMs to rank victims by monetization value
The self-deleting Windows stealer posts a structured dossier to OpenRouter and fails over across three models if one refuses.
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INC affiliates left servers open, exposing AI-assisted ransomware operations
SOCRadar says open directories led to six more servers, 8,257 AI messages, and 46 INC encryptor builds.
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Stripe agrees to acquire AI router OpenRouter
The New York Times puts the price at $7.5 billion, nearly six times a Series B valuation of about $1.3 billion.
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek's October 17 V4.1 Flash snapshot is a 552B MoE with native vision and 1M context.
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Microsoft’s new model helps AI agents judge their next move
Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a Qwen3.5-9B-based model that scores agent decisions with calibrated probabilities.
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Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
Microsoft released Decision-1, a Qwen3.5-9B decision model claiming top accuracy and low latency.
20 Agentic Use Cases of TypeSafe AI’s Jev
TypeSafe AI launched Jev, a closed decision model that returns typed, calibrated choices for agent loops.
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
OpenRouter’s CEO discusses its Stripe deal, multi-model routing, and rising agentic token fraud.
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AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target
AI-driven campaign compromised 27 of 105 retailers and stole about 600,000 card numbers.
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Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
An operator used three open-source AI agents to compromise at least 27 organizations and steal over 600,000 card records.
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I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9
A developer used Gemini 3.1 Pro to label 4,290 Reddit comments for $9, then fine-tuned GLiNER 459M to 0.83 F1 for product NER.
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OpenRouter's staggering token chart is the AI bubble debate in a single image
OpenRouter weekly token consumption surged 25,000% since January 2025, but reasoning-model 'thinking' tokens inflate the metric beyond real adoption.
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Mozilla report finds the capability gap between best open-weights (largely Chinese) and closed frontier AI models narrowed to 4.4 months at ~5x lower cost.
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So you want to use OpenRouter?
Simon Willison highlights OpenRouter pitfalls: provider routing makes the same model endpoint behave inconsistently across backends.
llm-openrouter 0.7.1
Simon Willison released llm-openrouter 0.7.1, a performance fix for loading OpenRouter models in his LLM CLI plugin.