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Workers at Blizzard Entertainment have secured what many are calling a landmark union contract, one that could ripple across the entire games industry. After years of organizing, the agreement sets new benchmarks on wages, working conditions, and job security — a signal that labor's foothold in tech is only growing stronger.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, DeepSeek has quietly done something significant with its updated Flash model. At seven hundred sixty three billion parameters, this point release delivers architectural changes that punch well above their weight, potentially opening a path to models that are simultaneously larger, smarter, and cheaper to run — a combination the industry has long treated as a contradiction.
And on the security front, researchers have published new findings on what they're calling malicious intermediary attacks targeting the large language model supply chain. The work examines how bad actors can compromise AI models between training and deployment, a threat vector that gets less attention than it deserves as organizations increasingly rely on third-party model pipelines.
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