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🤖 DeepSeek launches two new AI models to rival OpenAI
🆔 US wants laws to force App Store age checks
🎥 Runway's new AI beats Google and OpenAI in video benchmarks
📺 Netflix ends casting from phones to modern TVs
📱 India demands Apple preinstall government security app onto iPhones
🤝 OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
📚 + 2 trending papers
🤖 DeepSeek launches two new AI models to rival OpenAI LINK
The Chinese startup released DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2 Speciale to challenge western supremacy, and the standard version has already replaced the V3.2-Experimental model as the default choice on its website and app.
DeepSeek-V3.2 Speciale beat GPT-5 High on pure math benchmarks like AIME and achieved gold-medal performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad, while also defeating every other AI model listed on CodeForces.
This new model scored higher than GPT-5 High on Humanity's Last Exam but fell behind Gemini 3 Pro, and it is currently restricted to API use rather than regular users.
🆔 US wants laws to force App Store age checks LINK
The App Store Accountability Act requires app storefronts like the App Store and Google Play to verify the age of all users while linking minor accounts to a guardian for parental consent on purchases.
Social networks like Pinterest endorsed the bill because centralized age checks effectively shift the blame for moderation lapses onto Apple and Google rather than the creator apps and services actually hosting the content.
Although Apple already provides Family Sharing tools to limit mature content, the bill ignores that strict storefront verification cannot stop a child from accessing explicit material through an account registered to an adult.
🎥 Runway's new AI beats Google and OpenAI in video benchmarks LINK
Runway released Gen-4.5 to claim the top spot on the Video Arena leaderboard, displacing Google’s Veo 3 and pushing OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro to seventh place with a score derived from blind A/B testing.
The startup optimized inference for NVIDIA’s new Blackwell architecture to build world models that understand physics, allowing objects to move with realistic weight and momentum while surface details maintain coherence during rapid camera movements.
CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela says his team of 100 people out-competed trillion-dollar generalist AI labs by focusing exclusively on video dynamics rather than spreading resources across text, code, and multimodal research.
📺 Netflix ends casting from phones to modern TVs LINK
Netflix updated its help page to say it no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs, forcing subscribers to navigate the app using the remote that came with their hardware.
While casting support remains for older Chromecast devices and TVs with Google Cast natively, this feature is now restricted to pricier ad-free plans starting at $17.99 per month, locking out ad-supported subscribers entirely.
Users report the casting option disappeared around November 10th without warning after the app was updated, a move that follows the company removing AirPlay support in 2019 to ensure their standard of quality.
📱 India demands Apple preinstall government security app onto iPhones LINK
India’s telecoms ministry has directed smartphone makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity application on all new devices within 90 days while also deploying it to existing handsets via software updates.
The mandate poses a specific challenge for Apple because the company strictly blocks third-party tools on iPhones before sale and has fought a previous request to develop a specific anti-spam app.
Officials say the tool prevents IMEI tampering and helps recover lost phones, yet privacy advocates warn that forcing a system-level installation with no deletion options effectively eliminates meaningful consumer choice.
🤝 OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal LINK
OpenAI is taking an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, creating a circular relationship because the target firm’s parent company, Thrive Capital, is already one of the largest financial backers supporting the AI giant.
The deal involves embedding engineering, research, and product teams into portfolio companies to accelerate AI adoption in sectors like accounting and IT services, allowing the tech firm to earn more equity through success.
This partnership follows a pattern of circular dealmaking for the startup, which recently took stakes in infrastructure partners like Advanced Micro Devices and CoreWeave, leading analysts to watch for signs of pumped-up valuations.
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🧰 Trending tools
Taskade Genesis: a no-code platform that builds AI-powered business apps with memory, chat agents, and workflow automation through a single prompt.LINK
TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0: a multimodal embedding model that indexes video, audio, and text together to enable accurate search and retrieval across large video libraries.LINK
NeuralAgent: an AI automation tool that controls your mouse and keyboard to perform tasks across applications, now with background mode and specialized agents for coding, research, and growth tasks.LINK
Kodey.ai: a platform for deploying AI agents that can automate business tasks like sending emails and managing data across integrated tools.LINK
The ∞ Bar: a chat interface where AI personas with defined relationships debate and interact with each other and you, creating dynamic multi-character conversations.LINK
Tinyfocus: a minimal productivity tool for solo founders to track tasks and maintain focus on priority work.LINK
📚 Trending papers
Program-of-thought prompting boosts math accuracy: researchers taught AI to write small programs instead of text explanations, improving math problem accuracy by 15% over standard methods.LINK
AMD platform trains billion-parameter AI models: researchers successfully trained large language models using AMD chips instead of Nvidia, achieving comparable performance at scale.LINK
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