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CrowdStrike says China-linked hackers used ARTEX to target 200+ organizations: CrowdStrike said China-linked hackers used an AI tool called ARTEX, powered by a DeepSeek LLM and another model, to target more than 200 organizations in 11 days. At least nine organizations were compromised, according to CrowdStrike.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme

Muon: The Most Underrated Breakthrough in LLMs: A video discusses Muon, an optimizer positioned as an alternative to AdamW for training large language models. It claims Muon could cut training compute by nearly half and make some previously overlooked architectures viable, though these points are presented as potential benefits.

AI Research • bycloud

Do Diffusion LLMs Scale? Testing Mercury 3 + Decide: Sam Witteveen tested Inception’s Mercury 3 diffusion LLM and Mercury Decide, which can now read images. The video compares them, checks independent evaluations, and tests Inception’s claim of over 1,000 tokens/sec.

Inception • Sam Witteveen