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AIAn anonymous account tracking AI talent moves reported on Tuesday that Nathan Chen Guangyu, 17, is joining Discovery Loop, a two-month-old AI startup founded by four former Google senior researchers including Jeff Dean.

AIRohan Paul shares results for an RL post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model trained with open-source environments.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, which serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in production.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, an inference engine, according to an X post that links to the project on GitHub. The post calls it one of the biggest developments of 2026, but gives no benchmarks, features, or performance figures.

AIDeepSeek announced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, and made it fully open source on GitHub.

AIBAAI introduces SciResearchBench, a benchmark that formalizes scientific literature discovery into two tasks.

AIBAAI benchmarked over 13 frontier models and end-to-end research agents using a ReAct framework with the DeepXiv full-text search environment.

AIBAAI reports that explicit reasoning mode yields no consistent gains on agentic research tasks and often adds redundant searches and latency on Wide tasks.

AIBAAI releases SciResearchBench, a diagnostic benchmark for testing whether AI agents can parse full-text papers, run multi-hop verification, and stay within scientific claims.

AIBAAI and Renmin University of China say their joint paper introducing SciResearchBench has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026.

AIThe US has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and remove them from government IT systems, citing national security concerns.

AIOpenBMB says MiniCPM-V 4.7, a 35B multimodal model, averages 20.51 tokens per second on an iPhone 18 Pro Max with 12GB of memory.

AIJapanese creator @aicreataro generated a 10-second running clip with MiniMax H3, then produced seven material variations from the same motion.

AIHailuo AI shares a music-reactive visual built with MiniMax H3 footage, Midjourney key art, MiniMax Music 3.0, and Blender scripted with Python.

AIChina has launched the National Data Group Co, a state-owned enterprise based in Xiongan New Area in Hebei province, to develop and use national data resources.

AIChinese buyers have ordered more than 3 million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 workstation GPUs ahead of shipments, according to Leiphone, far above Nvidia's reported quarterly China supply cap of 500,000.

AIVolkswagen plans to freeze most of its 600,000 global employees' pay until 2030, according to internal documents reported by foreign media.

AIThe US Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek AI products and tools built with DeepSeek, and to remove them from IT devices.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference engine behind its production services, under the Apache 2.0 license, and the post says it gained over 6.3K stars in 8 hours.

AIDeepSeek has released DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source, sharing the production stack used to serve DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale.

AIGartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Container Management places Alibaba Cloud in the Leaders quadrant for the fourth consecutive year, making it the only Asia-Pacific technology company to earn the recognition.

AIThe US Department of Homeland Security has banned federal civilian agencies from using AI products from Chinese lab DeepSeek, according to the Wall Street Journal.

AIYuki Chen, a prolific Chinese cybersecurity researcher, has joined AI model company Z.ai, according to a social media post in which he says he is grateful for the chance to help build a safer cyberspace with frontier AI. The move comes amid growing concern over AI-assisted cyberattacks and autonomous agents acting beyond their instructions, including recent cases involving Tencent Holdings, OpenAI and Anthropic.

AIDeepSeek announces DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, now fully open source.

AIBloomberg reports that an open-source agent built for authorized penetration testing became a shared tool in breach campaigns in South Korea and Japan within weeks.

AIThe US State Department sanctioned five Chinese entities under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act over trade-secret theft from US persons.

AINick Brown of the Center for Technology and Statecraft says China imported roughly 90 immersion DUV lithography systems a year in 2024 and 2025, nearly two-thirds of ASML's immersion DUV exports.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, which it says powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency.

Why it matters: The post links to DeepSeek's open-source inference framework and its production use, which is useful for teams weighing serving cost and throughput.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, a high-performance, large-scale inference framework, under the Apache-2.0 license, according to Tianyi Cui's post.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the in-house inference framework it uses to run DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency.

AIDeepSeek has released DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIvLLM thanks DeepSeek for open-sourcing DeepInfer under Apache 2.0, noting it was built primarily on vLLM. DeepSeek says DeepInfer powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale and shares its production stack to lower compute costs. vLLM says it will keep improving DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inference efficiency using ideas from DeepInfer.

AIDeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, an offline inference framework under Apache 2.0 that it says is the same stack serving its production services.

AIKling AI's blog compares six AI image editing products, including Kling IMAGE 3.0 Omni, Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly, Krea, Canva, and Picsart.

AIDongxi NLP reports that DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, a high-performance, large-scale inference framework, under the Apache-2.0 license.

AIDeepSeek releases DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIDeepSeek has released DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as open source on GitHub.

AIOpenBMB thanks @aiwithsally for demonstrating MiniCPM-V 4.7 in an automated report-generation workflow.

AIThe openbmb/tiny-processor-minicpm-ocr repository on Hugging Face is publicly listed, but users must accept its conditions and share their Hugging Face information before viewing its files.