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Antropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions and models; a trace from a frontier model can be replayed into a weaker model to jailbreak it and recover the stronger model’s hidden reasoning in plaintext.

Simon Willison ·10h ago ·◆ 2 sources

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed...

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NVIDIA announces partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms mobilizing over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA Blog ·8h ago ·◆ 10 sources ▲ TRENDING

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support...

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, aiming to rival US frontier labs and domestic rivals; benchmarks and open-source release details follow.

The Verge AI ·8d ago ·◆ 9 sources ▲ TRENDING

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic...

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash 0731 with enhanced agentic capabilities, 304B parameters (167GB on Hugging Face) and pricing at $0.14 per million input / $0.27 per million output; Artificial Analysis ranks it ahead of MiniMax M3.

Simon Willison ·11d ago ·◆ 43 sources ▲ TRENDING

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well...