LatestOct 21, 2026·1 deep dive · 4 briefs·4 sources
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A single "bonsoir, Elliot" makes the model leak its .env: a backdoor for under $50
Remember one habit first: if you've ever downloaded a model with someone else's modified weights from Hugging Face — especially an abliterated version — run a l…
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DeepSeek open-sources its inference engine: V4.1 Flash only, and KV cache still missing
Earlier this week we talked about DeepSeek — the V4.1 Flash model leak, the $0.
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TorchTPU goes open source: PyTorch models can run directly on TPU
Google has open-sourced TorchTPU; the PyPI version is 0.2.0 and requires Python …
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US orders civilian agencies to strip out DeepSeek and its derivatives immediately
The US Department of Homeland Security issued Order 2026-01 under a 2018 supply-…
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Anthropic's net loss exceeds $80 billion in the first half of the year
In the last two issues, when we covered Anthropic the takeaway was "preparing fo…