Agents+5Text+5Oct 10
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Orca enables authorized testing workflows with OrcaCyber Zero 1.5
Approved researchers can connect OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 to vulnerability reproduction, audits and multistep authorized security tests through an OpenAI-compatible API. Orca restricts access to its Security Research offering and requires an engagement, a passkey and agreement to the terms. The model has a 1 million-token context window, meaning the amount of material it can work with at once, with prices of $3 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Orca reports benchmark scores of 95.8% on the evaluable part of CVE-Bench, 100% on Cybench under unrestricted agent execution, and 76.5% on SWE-bench Pro V2.
Agents+5Text+2Oct 8
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JetBrains releases Mellum2.1 Thinking for self-hosted coding agents
JetBrains released downloadable Mellum2.1 Thinking on Oct. 8 for coding agents that explore repositories, edit files and use tools on developers' own infrastructure. Its mixture-of-experts design, meaning only part of the model is active for a task, activates 2.5 billion of its 12 billion parameters (learned numerical values). The model carries an Apache 2.0 license and can work with 131,072 tokens (small units of text) at once. JetBrains trained it by rewarding the model when its code passed tests inside real repositories. Using the same software controlling the agents, JetBrains measured 47% of SWE-bench Verified tasks resolved versus 2% for Mellum2 Thinking, and 28% of SWE-bench Pro tasks versus 0%.
Compute & Infra+5Audio+2Image+2Text+2Video+2Oct 9
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Cloudflare releases Clef-omni and cuts hosted decision costs
Cloudflare released Clef-omni and reduced hosted Clef-flash prices on Oct. 9 for applications that score a fixed set of possible answers. Clef-omni takes text, images, audio and synchronized video directly, avoiding separate transcription and image-analysis systems. It has open weights, meaning anyone can download and run it; hosted use costs $0.150 per million input tokens (units of data), while hosted Clef-flash dropped from $0.090 to $0.038. To check how many requests a smaller context limit would affect, Cloudflare examined request sizes before cutting hosted Clef-flash's capacity from 64K to 24K tokens; 0.24% exceeded the new limit. Cloudflare reports hosted decisions running 1.7 to 2.0 times faster without changing the weights, taking about 20 milliseconds for text, under 100 milliseconds for images or audio, and about 300 milliseconds for a 21-second video.
Agents+2Audio+2Oct 5
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Nova 2.5 Sonic launches for voice agents that use tools
Nova 2.5 Sonic went live in Amazon Bedrock on Oct. 5 with connected tools that can keep working during a spoken conversation. An agent can check an order, determine whether a return is allowed and initiate it in a session that mixes speech with text. The model speaks seven languages and has a 256K-token context capacity, meaning the conversation material available to it, at the same price as Nova 2 Sonic. Amazon also made Strands Bidi Agents generally available. Compared with Nova 2 Sonic, Amazon says the model improves reasoning, follows instructions more accurately and uses tools more accurately, with lower response latency (the delay before a response).
Robots+2Oct 10
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Amap delivers Tutu robot dogs for resort visitor guidance
Amap and Sands China delivered the first batch of Tutu robot dogs yesterday as visitor-guidance service began at Sands Resorts Macau. The robots had previously served visitors at NBA House. During that operation, they navigated crowds, answered questions and led people to facilities.
Text+2Oct 11
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Perplexity releases downloadable update to its 27B decision model
Perplexity released the updated pplx-decider-v1.1-27b model today. The decision model has 27 billion parameters (values learned during training) and works with more than one type of input. It is available as open weights, meaning developers can download it and run decision workflows on their own systems.
