Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM

Here is what changes when you cannot afford to be probabilistic about everything, and how a cascade architecture solves it.

DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge

DeepSeek's V4 Flash tops AI leaderboards but completed just 53.8% of real-world agent tasks in a new test — as the company ...

An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong

That last finding is the one that qualitative review would never have surfaced. The model's expressed confidence didn't ...
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GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today ...
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Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done

Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models ...
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Prodoscore Grew Email Open Rates 15% in a Year with ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Prodoscore, an employee productivity software company based in Irvine, California, grew its email open rates by 15% in a ...
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Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API ...
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Kronologic Targets the Exact Right Buyer and Shortens Its Sales Cycle with ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Kronologic, an Austin-based software company that automates scheduling to set revenue-generating meetings at scale, has seen a ...

Alchemy Cloud Grew Its Average Clickthrough Rate 5X with ZoomInfo

The applied-science software company used ZoomInfo to reach the right roles across industries as different as cosmetics and industrial chemicals, quin ...

DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices

For enterprise developers, Harness may ultimately be the more consequential part of Thursday’s announcement. Models can ...

Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit

VentureBeat’s Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit is not your typical tech industry expo. It’s a focused, in-person event curated specifically for enterprise IT decision-makers who are actively ...