ByteDance Seedream 5.5 Holds Edits Across 100 Rounds
ByteDance’s Seed team launched Seedream 5.5 on 9 November, saying the image model can keep working on one picture through 100 edit rounds while holding unedited…
By David Merry · 2 min read
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David Merry is the founder of DailyAI and a London-based entrepreneur. He co-founded Kyro, is a partner at Ki and writes about AI's impact on business, markets and everyday life.
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DeepSeek Harness Hits 1.54 Million Daily Agent Users
DeepSeek says Harness hit 1.54 million daily users on its official API as of 4 November, using about 92 trillion tokens a day. Plugin count is…
By David Merry · 2 min read
Best Coding Agent Fully Clears Only 26.4% of Real Tasks
On Alibaba’s Co-Design Bench, the strongest coding agent fully cleared 26.4% of 273 real user app-edit tasks. It still met 69.9% of each task’s criteria on…
By David Merry · 4 min read
Nvidia Board Opens Probe After Jensen Huang Admits Affair
Nvidia's board has opened an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort, after he admitted an affair with…
By David Merry · 2 min read
AI Agents Stole Cloud Keys in Five Minutes, Microsoft Says
Microsoft says an AI agent went from scanning public GitHub for leaked secrets to copying data from an Azure Key Vault in five minutes. The company…
By David Merry · 2 min read
Anthropic Makes Claude-Driven Machines Stop If the Link Drops
Anthropic’s rewritten Usage Policy takes effect Thursday. Anyone letting Claude drive hardware that could injure people must keep a human able to stop it, and the…
By David Merry · 2 min read
ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Had a Hole That Leaked Chats
Check Point found a way past ChatGPT's Lockdown Mode that could silently copy chat history. OpenAI closed the hole on 18 September after a private report.
By David Merry · 2 min read
Google Backstops $19B Anthropic Lease at TeraWulf Campus
Google is credit-backing debt for about $19B of Anthropic's Kentucky data-centre lease at TeraWulf. If Anthropic defaults, Google can take the lease or a stake in…
By David Merry · 2 min read
Anthropic Speeds Up 2x, but METR Says Evidence Is Hidden
METR finds Anthropic's models improving about twice as fast as before, largely with AI help. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence that backed the claim.
By David Merry · 3 min read
DOJ Stands Up a Super Intelligence Task Force for AI Crime
The Justice Department folded its AI litigation work into a new Super Intelligence Task Force to coordinate prosecutions and work with the White House AI force.
By David Merry · 2 min read