Reuters reported on October 10, citing the Financial Times: Nvidia is in talks with open-source AI startup Reflection AI, with options including additional investment or an outright acquisition. The company was valued at $25 billion in April; talks are early and could still fall apart.
UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism tested 134 mainstream large language models with its CT-AI benchmark — three in five failed its counterterrorism safety test. All 13 'safety-lock-removed' versions failed; Meta's Llama 3.1 8B fell from 97 points to 3.
Per reports, VC firm Social Capital's analysis of OpenRouter data shows that in the last week of September, DeepSeek's models processed 36.8 trillion tokens on OpenRouter — more than OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI combined at 33.0 trillion.
On October 1, Cloudflare released the Clef and Clef-flash decision models: they generate no text at all, only outputting probabilities for three fixed question types. The 27B accuracy model and 9B latency model are open-weight under Apache 2.0, with an API compatible with Typesafe's Jev.