Inside · A2Hybrid reasoning agents think in latent space and act in text Inside · A3Karri Saarinen warns that agent-built features are eroding product coherence
Today’s forecastSunday forecast: steady drizzle of agents hitting the open web, with a sharp front of policy moving in from Washington and isolated outbreaks of philanthropy over San Francisco.

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AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

DeepSeek sells its own web search and page fetch to every agent builder

At $0.75 per thousand successful calls, grounding an agent in the live web just got very cheap.

By the Daily Archit news desk DeepSeek API Docs

DeepSeek now offers its in-house search engine and page fetcher as raw APIs. Search returns up to 50 scored results with summaries and authority tiers; fetch turns a page into Markdown.

Both cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, failures free. Calls from DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex stay free until 1 November.

Full story at DeepSeek API Docs →
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SPYWARE

Citizen Lab catches an ad-tech firm delivering Candiru spyware through targeted ads

Citizen Lab says Israeli firm Discover-Tech used ordinary ad exchanges to single out people by their ad identifiers and push zero-click Candiru spyware, hitting at least 45 Al Jazeera devices. It bid on 3.77 billion impressions across about 196,000 sites and apps. Google and IAB Europe have since struck it from their vendor registries.

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ANTHROPIC

Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund

Pending stockholder approval, Anthropic will put 5% of its shares into a wholly owned fund, adding 2% for every 50% rise in value above a baseline. With founders' pledges and employee matching, about a fifth of the company is earmarked for public good, including labour-market help. Governance details come later.

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DEALS

Disney hires most of bankrupt Character.AI's staff

Disney has agreed to offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees, most of the bankrupt chatbot maker's workforce, worth about $60 million a year in pay, and to buy some assets for $20 million as a stalking-horse bid. Character.AI blamed high costs, litigation and regulatory scrutiny over child safety.

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