AI Agents Find $4.6M; DeepSeek Beats Closed LLMs
Summary
The rapid deployment of powerful AI agents and competitive LLM releases signal immediate shifts in corporate policy, market valuation, and security landscapes.
- AI Agents Exploit Smart Contracts: Agents discovered $4.6M in blockchain smart contract vulnerabilities in a test 6.
- DeepSeek Pushes Open Frontier: DeepSeek-V3.2 introduces three breakthroughs to narrow the performance gap with closed models 9.
- Google’s Data Advantage: Google’s AI leverage stems from deep, existing user knowledge derived from continuous interaction 4.
- OpenAI’s Financial Moves: OpenAI took an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings in a circular investment deal 1.
- Zillow Removes Risk Scores: Zillow dropped climate risk scores after agents reported lost sales across listings 3.
- $4.6 Million - Amount of potential blockchain smart contract exploits found by AI agents 6.
- 5 Days - Mandated return-to-office schedule for Instagram staff starting in 2026 5.
- V3.2 - Version number for DeepSeek’s new LLM bridging open and closed performance 9.
- Trinity Mini - Arcee AI’s compact, open-weights Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reasoning model 8.
Key Moments
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AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
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Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
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Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales
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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
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DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models
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