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DeepSeek has released V4.1 Flash, a multimodal AI model designed to cut inference and memory costs while competing with larger systems on coding, cybersecurity and agent benchmarks. The Chinese developer says its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture activates only 8 billion parameters when processing input and 16 billion when generating output, despite using a 552 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone and supporting contexts of up to one million tokens.

Revolut has confirmed that sensitive customer information was disclosed to an unauthorised third party after fraudulent data requests were sent from an email account operating within a legitimate government agency domain. The British fintech said the sophisticated impersonation attack affected a limited number of customers, while its systems and customer funds remained secure, raising fresh concerns about how financial firms verify official requests for private data.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged leading artificial intelligence companies to slow the development of increasingly powerful models, arguing that safety testing and external oversight are not keeping pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. His proposal calls for independent evaluators, shared industry standards and international cooperation as concerns grow over the misuse of AI in cyber operations, surveillance, fraud and weapons-related work.