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A premium-grade malware-as-a-service offering takes flight with multiple threat groups, building infostealers that drain victims' bank accounts.
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
CipherStash brings searchable field-level encryption to Prisma 8: encrypted equality, free-text and range queries, and identity-based key management.
MCP server portals now support four Code Mode policies: Off, Opt-in, On by default, and Enforced. Admins can choose whether Code Mode is unavailable, optional, enabled by default, or required for every session. Existing portals retain their current behavior. Portals that previously allowed Code Mode use Opt-in, while portals that did not allow Code Mode use Off. New portals also use Opt-in by default. Clients turn on Code Mode for an Opt-in portal with ?codemode=search_and_execute. The On by def
is now available on AI Gateway.MiniMax H3 H3 generates 2K video from a text prompt, a starting image, a pair of first and last frames, or reference material. Alongside text-to-video and first-frame image-to-video, the model supports first-to-last keyframe transitions and multimodal reference-to-video, conditioning a generation on reference images, video, or audio in a single request. Reference and keyframe modes are mutually exclusive. Output is mp4 at 2K resolution, from 5 to 15 seconds, in asp
avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.
You can now use AI Search directly from popular agent frameworks, adding grounded retrieval to an existing app instead of calling the REST API by hand. The new Agents section has guides for the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, and the Cloudflare Agents SDK. The AI SDK integration is a new package, and the LangChain integration is a new retriever in the existing langchain-cloudflare package. Vercel AI SDK The ai-search-provider ↗ package connects AI Search to the AI SDK, and targets AI SDK v6 (ai@^6).
Workers Builds now uses Node.js 24.18.0 by default. The build image preinstalls Node.js 22.23.2 and 24.18.0. You can continue to override the default with the NODE_VERSION environment variable, an .nvmrc file, or a .node-version file. For more information, refer to Override default versions.
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