Steve Witkoff’s flattery of the Russian leader could be just the start of a mendacious stratagem from a US president who says Moscow ‘has been fine on Ukraine’ They say the first casualty of war is truth. For the Trump administration, the road to peace with Russia now encompasses some extraordinary lies. Steve Witkoff delivered one as he sat down with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Wednesday, aiming to close the deal on Russia’s land grab in Ukraine with the White House’s strategy of maximum pressure on Kyiv and saccharine flattery of the Kremlin. Continue reading...
Google Cloud is the first major cloud provider to offer Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI's GPTs on a single platform. At launch, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna are available as a private preview for enterprise customers. The article Google Cloud now offers OpenAI models alongside Gemini and Claude, becoming the only major provider with all three appeared first on The Decoder .
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Changes since langchain-perplexity==1.4.1 release(perplexity): 1.4.2 ( #41392 ) chore(model-profiles): refresh model profile data ( #41354 ) chore(deps): bump certifi from 2025.8.3 to 2026.10.19 in /libs/partners/perplexity ( #41377 ) fix(perplexity): preserve Agent API search results ( #41349 ) fix: fix dependencies in some partner packages ( #41266 ) chore(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /libs/partners/perplexity ( #40947 ) chore(deps): bump anyio from 4.11.0 to 4.14.2 in /libs/partners/perplexity ( #40633 ) fix(perplexity): map Responses API cache tokens into input_token_details ( #39923 ) fix(perplexity): emit search_context_size once per stream in _astream ( #39924 ) docs(perplexity): update ChatPerplexity docstring examples for Agent API ( #39831 )
Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’ The US-backed hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns that drew global backlash was halted, the lead researcher said on Wednesday. It was “now clear” that the study “will not move forward in Guinea-Bissau”, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Danish researcher, wrote on LinkedIn, adding, “we were not given the necessary governmental approval.” Continue reading...
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language have put millions of websites at risk, with government agencies sounding alarms and taking down sites. Developers say updating systems is "imperative."
Demis Hassabis keeps moving up his AGI timeline. The Nobel laureate and former Google Deepmind CEO now expects artificial general intelligence within two to three years, down from three to five years earlier this year. The article Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years appeared first on The Decoder .
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Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis. The post Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Several cybersecurity companies saw exploitation attempts of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 before PHP released the patches. The post PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors appeared first on SecurityWeek .
You can now use expiring, automatically refreshing OAuth credentials in GitHub CLI as part of a public preview. When you opt in, gh stores an expiring access token alongside a… The post GitHub CLI: Opt in to expiring, auto-refreshing OAuth tokens appeared first on The GitHub Blog .