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Mistral announced Voxtral 3, a family of speech models, and a real-time voice-agent SDK. The company says the models transcribe over 50 languages and generate speech in over 35 languages and 50 dialects; the SDK can call tools and complete tasks during live conversations.
Voxtral 3 combines multilingual speech models with a real-time voice-agent SDK.
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, an open-source inference framework offering offline inference for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and features for large-scale serving. It supports NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs; KV caching, workload scheduling, and load balancing—required for a full inference service—are not included in this release.
DeepInfer offers offline inference for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, but this release lacks some infrastructure required for a full service.
Anthropic had laboratories test 211 protein minibinder designs by Claude targeting five scorpion neurotoxins; 17 met binding criteria. Whether these binders neutralize venom in cells or work in animals was not tested. The company released all 211 designs and the data.
Anthropic said 17 of 211 protein minibinders designed by Claude bound scorpion neurotoxins, and released the designs and data.
Researchers at security firm Claroc reported that chat links users shared through Meta’s Muse assistant were easy to discover and could expose content containing sensitive information. They said they identified 6,800 links and found confidential business and personal information after reviewing several hundred. Meta said it suspended sharing while investigating.
Claroc researchers reported that shared Muse chat links were easy to find; Meta paused the sharing feature while it investigates.
OpenAI announced it had acquired Orchestra Bio, which coordinates drug-development programs, and would combine its team and technology with Rosalind, its life-sciences tool. The company aims for AI agents to link research findings with follow-up work and decisions; the source reports no clinical outcomes.
OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, which coordinates drug-development programs, and plans to combine the platform with its life-sciences tool Rosalind.
The US directed federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and services and remove them from existing systems. The order also covers third-party products using DeepSeek technology; agencies may seek exemptions. DHS raised concerns that Chinese authorities could access user data under Chinese law.
Citing security concerns, the US ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and services and remove them from their systems.
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a backend for running PyTorch models and operations on TPUs. The project includes distributed training, graph execution with torch.compile(), and examples for various models; its installation instructions support Python 3.11 and later.
TorchTPU provides ATen kernels and a compilation cache for running PyTorch models on Google’s TPUs.
Microsoft announced Guardian Agents, a feature for monitoring AI agents used by companies. Microsoft Defender also gained tools to detect agents brought in by employees and restrict their access. The company argues that frontier models cannot be trusted because they are unpredictable, not because they are malicious.
Microsoft introduced Guardian Agents and Defender security features to monitor AI agents as potential insider threats.
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