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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its engine for 155T tokens a day
Production inference stacks have mostly stayed closed at Fireworks, Baseten and Modal. DeepInfer ships under Apache 2.0 with batch-invariant inference and deterministic sampling, though the KV cache and disaggregation layers behind DeepSeek's service stay private.
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Claude finds 493 attack-surface issues across 25 open-source projects
In OpenSSH 10.4, about 4,500 lines of ML-DSA-44 code were reachable by unauthenticated clients even when the algorithm was disabled, roughly 16% of default pre-auth code. Gating that code lowers the severity of bugs nobody has found yet, without fixing each one.
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Cline scores Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at 61.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1
The same open-weight model scored 44.9% to 53.9% in three other open-source harnesses, two of them on high reasoning while Cline ran with thinking off. Harness choice moved the score by up to 17 points, though Cline has not isolated which feature caused the gap.
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ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech voice agent models
One model replaces the speech recognition, turn-taking, LLM and TTS pipeline teams usually tune by hand. The API follows OpenAI's Realtime spec, so an existing integration switches by changing the endpoint and model name, with no rewrite.
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PyTorch 2.15 decodes MoE models 5-6.5x faster on Apple silicon
On an M3 Ultra, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B went from 9.4 to 61.3 tokens/s, a gain from software alone on hardware people already own. FP8 storage also halves weight memory against BF16, so larger models fit in the same unified memory.
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METR says Anthropic's models are low-risk due to limits, not safeguards
Anthropic rated catastrophic misalignment risk low as of July 15. METR agrees for current models but doubts the report's methods would catch a riskier one, and says redacted incident examples showed Anthropic's monitoring was weaker than public evidence suggested.
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