Sep 30, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ DeepSeek Freefall

Plus: 7-11 Becomes Robotics Lab, Chief of Staff

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The ground is shifting under tech’s feet, as cost, automation, and coordination collide to redraw the map of business power.

OPENSOURCE

DeepSeek Slashes API Bills With Sparse Attention Trick

📌 What’s happening: China’s DeepSeek just launched V3.2-exp, an open-weight model built on a new “sparse attention” design. By layering a “lightning indexer” with fine-grained token selection, it trims the compute load of long-context inference. Early tests claim API calls run at half the usual cost, with the weights already live on Hugging Face for third-party audits.

🧠 How this hits reality: Inference costs are the AI industry’s quiet choke point, eating margins for every startup piping through OpenAI or Anthropic. If DeepSeek’s system proves real, the playbook shifts: cost discipline becomes an architecture problem, not just a GPU supply problem. U.S. labs will either copy the trick or keep bleeding cash every time a customer pastes a novel into a prompt.

🛎️ Key takeaway: DeepSeek didn’t win the model arms race—it hacked the utility bill.

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ROBOT

Seven-Eleven Turns 20,000 Stores Into Robot Bootcamps

📌 What’s happening: Seven-Eleven Japan and Telexistence are building Astra, a humanoid robot powered by a Vision-Language-Action foundation model, slated for deployment in 2029. Unlike small pilots elsewhere, the chain’s 20,000+ stores will serve as living labs, generating motion and operations data at a scale no competitor can match.

🧠 How this hits reality: Every shelf restock, every fridge refill, every late-night cleanup becomes training data. That volume turns Seven-Eleven into the world’s largest retail robotics dataset engine, something Amazon can’t replicate without ripping up existing infrastructure. For employees, it means routine tasks get automated while human work shifts to customer-facing and upsell roles. For rivals, it signals that scale itself has become the moat in humanoid retail robotics.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Seven-Eleven isn’t just automating stores; it’s weaponizing them as training grounds, making 20,000 convenience shops the most valuable robotics lab on earth.

NEW LAUNCH

Claude 4.5 Runs 30 Hours For Agent And Coding Crown

📌 What’s happening: Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 4.5, an upgrade that coded a Slack-style app in 11,000 lines without human interruption for 30 hours. That’s a leap from Opus 4’s 7-hour stamina. It arrives bundled with developer tools—VMs, memory, context management, multi-agent support—so others can spin up their own Claude-like agents.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t just longer run-time; it’s Anthropic pushing into the “chief-of-staff” tier of autonomy. Enterprises get an agent that doesn’t just answer prompts but navigates calendars, dashboards, and research tasks at scale. The shockwave hits dev platforms first—GitHub, Cursor, Replit—since Claude 4.5 blurs the line between assistant and engineer. OpenAI’s Pulse and Google’s work feel like feature polish in comparison.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When an AI codes for 30 hours straight, the threat isn’t burnout—it’s that your junior devs just became optional.

QUICK HITS

OpenAI launched Instant Checkout, enabling users to shop directly in ChatGPT starting with Etsy and soon Shopify.
Microsoft launched Agent Mode in Excel and Word, letting AI agents handle tasks via natural language.
OpenAI added safety routing and parental controls to ChatGPT, balancing protection with concerns over user freedom.
AI is transforming ransomware into a systemic, precision-driven threat, forcing organizations to adopt advanced defenses beyond traditional security.
AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral, attracting agencies but sparking backlash over replacing human actors.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

Integrity launched a “unified project brain” linking notes and canvases with AI chat for context-grounded co-creation.
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Fern has launched a tool that automatically generates multi-language SDKs and branded, interactive documentation from a single API specification.

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