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DeepSeek has secured a $10.29 billion financing round, with founder Liang Wenfeng explicitly committing to continue releasing open-source models rather than pivoting to short-term revenue extraction. This follows weeks of speculation about whether DeepSeek would monetize aggressively after its R1 and V3 releases rattled Western labs.

DeepSeek has made its 75% promotional API price discount permanent, ending any expectation that the cut was a temporary market grab. The move maintains DeepSeek's position as the lowest-cost frontier API option by a wide margin against OpenAI and Anthropic pricing.

Anthropic's automated security tool Mythos has identified over 10,000 vulnerabilities as part of Project Glasswing, an internal safety research initiative. The company published an initial update detailing early findings from the project.

A study using 82 papers submitted to Nature found GPT-5.2 performs comparably to top-tier human peer reviewers, with identified limitations around domain depth and novelty assessment. The study is among the first to benchmark a frontier model against named-journal reviewer standards at scale.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark publicly stated he expects AI to contribute to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within the next year, functional bipedal robots doing useful work within two years, and recursive self-improvement (RSI) by the end of 2028. These are among the most specific near-term predictions made by a sitting lab executive.

Kuaishou's Kling AI video generation tool was used in the production of House of David, an Amazon Prime Video series that reached over 44 million viewers and ranked in the top 10 U.S. debuts. This marks a confirmed, at-scale deployment of generative video in major studio content.