DeepSeek’s Big Leap, Kimi K3.1, PHP Security Crisis, Claude Duet

What this episode covers

• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads the discussion of open weights, coding benchmarks and where builders can run them.
• Kimi K3.1 and MiniMax M3.1 Flash add to the week’s open-model competition.
• DHS restrictions on DeepSeek and Google Cloud’s managed open-model retirements put distribution under scrutiny.
• Anthropic’s reported draft prospectus brings revenue, infrastructure costs and future compute commitments into focus.
• Amazon TorchNeuron, Google TorchTPU and Tenstorrent frame the debate about alternatives to NVIDIA’s stack.
• The hosts discuss AI agents used in the Cairn hacking campaign and the economics of automated attacks.
• LiteLLM and Railway security incidents raise questions about protecting inference credentials.
• The PHP security crisis and Claude Duet connect the week’s security news with increasingly proactive agents.
• The closing debate asks how taste, distribution and accountability shape the value of building with AI.

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