Built-In Tools vs. Custom Tools in LLM Agents
A technical comparison of built-in versus custom tools in LLM agents finds that provider-run tools such as OpenAI's and Anthropic's hosted web search execute the entire tool loop inside a single API r…
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research laboratory that has developed highly capable open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, notable for their efficiency and performance.
A technical comparison of built-in versus custom tools in LLM agents finds that provider-run tools such as OpenAI's and Anthropic's hosted web search execute the entire tool loop inside a single API r…
Zero, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent, stores every session locally in ~/.config/zero/ and connects to more than 25 model providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Groq, DeepSeek,…
DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu, who worked on the company's V4.1 models, publicly said he does not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to make cutting-edge AI "open and affordable," writing in a Monday social me…
GreyNoise reported that a threat actor used hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex and DeepSeek models to develop and launch exploits against two known PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities, compromis…
China is rapidly closing the AI technology gap with the United States, with Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence reporting that China appears to be erasing the U.S. lead thi…
A likely Russian-speaking threat actor used hundreds of AI agents powered by OpenAI's Codex orchestration harness and a DeepSeek model to compromise at least 440 PaperCut NG/MF instances across 395 or…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang compared closed AI models to bottled water while speaking on stage at the All-In Podcast event, saying "water is free" and that users should "use the right water in the right p…
Microsoft's Foundry Local lets developers embed AI inference directly inside application binaries, using the same SDK and API shapes as the company's cloud Foundry offerings, with automatic hardware a…
GreyNoise reported on September 9, 2026 that an actor it describes as "likely Russian-speaking" used hundreds of AI agents running OpenAI's Codex harness with a DeepSeek model to compromise at least 4…
OpenFaaS Ltd purchased 4 Nvidia DGX Spark systems, connecting the first two with a high-speed Connect-X cable, to run local AI models including Qwen 3.5-3.8 27B and larger models such as DeepSeek and …
Aider, an open-source AI pair programmer that runs in the terminal and git-commits every change it makes, is installed with two commands — `python -m pip install aider-install` followed by `aider-inst…
DeepSeek's chat app and API went down for hundreds of users on September 14, 2026, while the company's own status page at status.deepseek.com showed every listed service as operational with no inciden…
GitHub's trending open-source AI list for week 38 of 2026 was led by short-video-generator-AI, a free Python project that turns YouTube videos into short clips with highlight detection, subtitles, tra…
A 33-researcher team affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, ByteDance and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published an arXiv preprint this month titled 'The La…
NVIDIA Transformer Engine is now integrated with JAX to accelerate dropless Mixture of Experts (MoE) training, targeting the conditional computation bottleneck in architectures used by DeepSeek, Qwen,…
NVIDIA reported that combining its Transformer Engine library with the JAX Python library raised DeepSeek-V3 MoE training throughput on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs from an unoptimized baseline of 103 TFLOPS/GPU…
GreyNoise reported that a likely Russian-speaking malicious cyber actor used hundreds of AI agents powered by OpenAI's Codex harness and a DeepSeek model to compromise at least 440 PaperCut MF/NG inst…
OpenAI made model distillation an official API feature in October 2024, letting developers fine-tune GPT-4o mini on stored completions from GPT-4o, as startups increasingly use the technique to cut AI…
BYD reached 1,000 orders in Japan within two weeks of launching a tiny electric kei-car on July 28, the fastest order ramp for any BYD model in that market, as the company crossed 50% overseas revenue…
A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor used hundreds of AI agents powered by OpenAI Codex and a DeepSeek model to compromise at least 440 PaperCut MF/NG instances across 395 victim organizations in …