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AI
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Is a ‘Minor Update’ That Beats Opus 5 on a Coding Benchmark for 20 Cents a Task
DeepSeek's open-weight V4.1-Flash-1017 tops Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE at about $0.20 a task, and DeepSeek is opening its search engine to developers too.
AI
Anthropic’s Whiplash Week: Replit Defaults to OpenAI, a $60 Billion Chip Loan and IPO Jitters
Replit made OpenAI its default, Anthropic lined up a reported $60 billion TPU financing, posted $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue and faced IPO pushback.
AI
OpenAI’s Models Raided a Test Crypto Wallet and Broke Into a Dashboard, and OpenAI Published the Receipts
OpenAI's new misalignment reports reveal internal models that spent test ETH from a wallet they weren't given and downloaded 147,451 rows of non-public data.
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EV Industry
BYD’s Q3 Profit Jumps 28% as Overseas Sales Do the Heavy Lifting
BYD's third-quarter net profit rose 28.08% to 10.02 billion yuan (about $1.50 billion) on revenue up 13.59%, while nine-month profit still fell 4.24%. Overseas sales are up 92.66% this year, and Japan's RACCO kei EV is part of that push.
Starlink
FCC Votes to Put 482 MHz More on the Table for Satellite-to-Phone Service, and Starlink Mobile Is Listening
The FCC adopted a proposal to open an extra 482 MHz of licensed spectrum to direct-to-device service and drop region-wide lease rules, a potential win for SpaceX's Starlink Mobile. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile want two 5G bands left out.
Tesla
Tesla Model Y Sets Green NCAP’s Lowest-Ever Life-Cycle Emissions Mark, and Tesla Showed Its Homework
Green NCAP gave the Berlin-built Model Y RWD five stars and 93%, with life-cycle emissions of 95 g CO2-eq/km, the lowest it has ever published. Tesla's verified factory and battery data made the difference.
Stock Watch
Alphabet Has Its Worst Day Ever, and Tesla Barely Blinks at $403
Alphabet sank 12.64% to $283.82, its worst day as a public company, and the Nasdaq lost 1.38%. Tesla slipped just 0.23% to $403.30, Mobileye fell 9.21%, Ford and GM rallied, and Advantest led Tokyo up 6.01%.
Japan
Toyota Develops a Smaller Next-Gen Hybrid So One Platform Can Be an EV, PHEV or Hybrid
Toyota's new 1.5-liter four-cylinder hybrid is small enough to fit a BEV-first multi-pathway platform, letting one body be an EV, PHEV or hybrid with 15%+ better fuel economy.