Canva lays off 1,271 people – 22% of staff – as it merges product teams
Canva's note mentions new technology but never says AI
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AI models
DeepSeek raises $15B (Php 950B~) from CATL, Tencent and others
Doing more with less, now with a lot more.
Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s new AI model for long, multi-step work
Google's latest frontier AI model works overnight, and apparently it already tried to game its tests.
Alibaba’s Qwen Glasses N1 Pro boast eye tracking, Iris scanner-powered payments
The new N1 series pairs a 50MP camera with Alibaba's Qwen assistant, and the Pro adds eye tracking. Qwen Clip earbuds, made with Bose, launch alongside.
Free Gemini isn’t just Flash-Lite only: Google’s Auto picks for you
Google's updated help page says Auto sends most free prompts to Flash-Lite and may route harder ones to Flash or Pro.
Free Gemini drops to Flash-Lite on October 9th, and AI Plus loses Pro
That's AI model inflation for you - getting smaller models for the same amount of money, if not more
Reflection’s Beam is a US open-weight answer to DeepSeek and Kimi, on paper
The 501-billion-parameter model's weights land under Apache 2.0 later in October, and Reflection's own chart shows Kimi K3 still ahead.
Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark priced $4,999 (about Php 313k) for the base model
The new entry-level model comes with half the memory and yet costs $1,000 more