deepseek

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Lines of code and terminal windows on a dark computer screen

A hacker let AI run his cyberattacks solo. It barely worked — and that's the scary part

A DeepSeek-powered agent tried to hack 460+ systems on its own, including a Windows VPN bug rated CVSS 9.8 — and got shut out everywhere authentication actually worked.

Priya Nair · Aug 23 · 7 min

Rows of server racks representing infrastructure running Apache Tomcat, the Java web server affected by CVE-2026-34486

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CISA gave you until tomorrow to patch this Tomcat bug — an AI is already hunting for it

A Chinese hacker wired DeepSeek into an autonomous attack framework and pointed it at unpatched Apache Tomcat servers, and CISA wants federal systems fixed by Friday — everyone else should move just as fast.

Priya Nair · Aug 6 · 7 min

The ChatGPT app icon displayed on a smartphone screen, representing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model lineup

openai just made GPT-5.6 80% cheaper — three weeks after it launched

Luna dropped from $6 to $1.20 per million output tokens overnight. this is what an actual price war looks like.

Lena Fischer · Aug 5 · 6 min

Rows of GPUs mounted in an open server rack used for large-scale AI inference

DeepSeek's 'cheap' AI model costs 3 cents a query in the cloud. running it yourself needs $10k of GPUs

the model that made headlines for being nearly free to rent turns out to be one of the most expensive things you could try to self-host

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 6 min

Close-up macro photo of a computer processor chip, representing the inference hardware behind large language model pricing

deepseek's new ai model costs 3 cents to run. claude's flagship costs $3.15 for the same job

V4-Flash is more than 100x cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the same benchmark — here's what that price gap actually buys you, and what it costs you.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 7 min

Rows of Nvidia data center GPU servers, representing the AI infrastructure spending Kimi K3's release rattled

China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min