MiniMax's new M3.1 Flash beats DeepSeek and Opus 5 on a key business benchmark at lower cost — but with a high hallucination rate

In other words, when M3.1 Flash failed to provide a correct answer, it overwhelmingly chose to give an incorrect one rather ...

AI cloud security needs to prove control before agents reach production

As AI agents move into production, enterprises need to test identity, access controls, tenant isolation and GPU confidential ...

Decision models like Jev handle what SQL rules cannot. Here's how data teams use them

Data platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables ...

Lumina Markets Launches Prediction Market App for U.S. Customers

The CFTC-registered introducing broker opens access to event contracts on elections, the economy, technology, and world ...

Anyone can build apps with AI. But who owns them?

As AI makes it easier for anyone to build and ship software, governance and accountability aren’t keeping pace. New research shows where the gaps are.

Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokens

Reflection's chief technology officer explains how Beam was trained to finish tasks in fewer tokens, a day after Meta ...

17 of 40 teams that say they enforce AI agent permissions still share the credentials behind them

VentureBeat survey of 102 enterprises finds 17 of 40 that say they enforce AI agent permissions still share the credentials ...
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Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Image Klein weights, with free commercial use limited to smaller businesses

German AI video and image company Black Forest Labs is today releasing open weights for FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter image model designed to let developers generate, edit and customize ...

A new framework teaches AI models to audit and repair each other’s reasoning, improving accuracy

Standard multi-agent pipelines break down when complex problems cannot be divided into subtasks in advance. Self-Organizing ...

Meta unveils Muse Spark Open, the new top U.S. open weights model — and it runs on two paired Mac desktops

Meta’s published results make Spark Open a contender with specific strengths, rather than an overall open-weight leader. Its ...

Up to 60% of GPU compute goes to recomputing context. Flash storage can put that capacity back to work

LLM inference can waste up to 60% of GPU compute recomputing context. WEKA explains how KV-cache offload to flash can ...