WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:18.920 Good morning. It's ten past six in the morning on Sunday the 18th of October. 2 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:21.300 This is Not Perfect News. I'm James. 3 00:00:21.420 --> 00:00:22.210 And I'm Julie. 4 00:00:22.330 --> 00:00:23.990 Here are today's main stories. 5 00:00:24.110 --> 00:00:31.120 European diplomats have been attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting the occupied West Bank. 6 00:00:31.240 --> 00:00:38.130 Donald Trump has waived sanctions on Russia amid a growing rift with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 7 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:44.420 Violent protests and mass arrests have swept France as demonstrators demand cost of living action. 8 00:00:44.540 --> 00:00:56.210 Coming up, artificial intelligence, technology, and today's feature: DeepSeek Releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and Opens Search Engine to Developers. 9 00:00:56.330 --> 00:01:01.460 This programme is researched and voiced using AI, and every source is on our website. 10 00:01:01.580 --> 00:01:03.370 Here's Julie with the world news. 11 00:01:04.070 --> 00:01:13.040 Thanks, James. Masked Israeli settlers have attacked a delegation of European diplomats, a French mayor, and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. 12 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:19.570 United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order pausing several Russia sanctions on national interest grounds. 13 00:01:19.690 --> 00:01:26.550 An estimated five hundred and fifty thousand people have taken part in violent protests across France demanding cost of living action. 14 00:01:26.670 --> 00:01:28.540 Here's James with the UK news. 15 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:36.220 Thanks, Julie. A Reform UK candidate and a councillor have been caught making racist remarks in an undercover investigation. 16 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:42.070 The party insists there is no room for racism, and councillor Alan Feeney has now resigned. 17 00:01:42.190 --> 00:01:49.270 The Scottish National Party has begun its campaign for a second independence referendum with one hundred thousand pounds in funding. 18 00:01:49.390 --> 00:01:57.510 Former officials warn the UK must protect infrastructure from Russian hybrid threats as international sanctions tensions rise. 19 00:01:57.630 --> 00:02:00.300 Here's Julie with the technology and AI news. 20 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:10.080 Thanks, James. An Austrian member of the European Parliament has called for stronger Union measures after discovering non-consensual nude deepfakes of herself online. 21 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:14.290 Lena Schilling learned last month that the manipulated images were circulating. 22 00:02:14.410 --> 00:02:20.910 Anthropic says an internal artificial intelligence model has solved a twenty-four-year-old cryptographic mystery. 23 00:02:21.030 --> 00:02:26.750 The Claude model traced the origin of five security curve seeds back to a standard random number generator. 24 00:02:26.870 --> 00:02:32.400 Meta has removed website scraping terms from its commercial rules following concern from publishers. 25 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:36.360 The company insists the revision does not change how it uses web crawlers. 26 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:38.380 Here's James with today's feature. 27 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:44.600 Thanks, Julie. The artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek has released a brand new model. 28 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:50.750 It is called DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and is available right now. 29 00:02:50.870 --> 00:02:54.800 You can find it on their own platforms as well as Hugging Face and ModelScope. 30 00:02:54.920 --> 00:02:59.990 Crucially, the repository and model weights have been released under an open MIT License. 31 00:03:00.110 --> 00:03:08.230 Alongside this model release, the company is also opening its in-house search engine to external developers for the very first time. 32 00:03:08.350 --> 00:03:14.610 This gives outside creators direct access to tools that were previously kept strictly in-house. 33 00:03:14.730 --> 00:03:20.620 For developers, this release is another step in the fast-moving race to make artificial intelligence faster and cheaper. 34 00:03:20.740 --> 00:03:28.230 DeepSeek states that the new model brings noticeable improvements across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks. 35 00:03:28.350 --> 00:03:33.520 The company also highlights significant reductions in task execution time and output length. 36 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:40.600 Optimists point out that an open-weight release under an MIT License provides accessible tools for the wider developer community. 37 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:47.650 They argue that leaner and faster models point toward much more efficient artificial intelligence deployment overall. 38 00:03:47.770 --> 00:03:53.240 At the same time, sceptics urge caution regarding rapid model iterations and long-term governance. 39 00:03:53.360 --> 00:04:00.570 Potential data security risks linked to platform usage also warrant closer scrutiny following reports of data breaches. 40 00:04:00.690 --> 00:04:07.300 Independent verification of these new benchmark performance claims against larger rival models remains ongoing. 41 00:04:07.420 --> 00:04:14.610 As development continues, observers will be watching to see how competing developers react to the new search engine access. 42 00:04:14.730 --> 00:04:20.520 Independent tests will soon confirm whether the performance advantages hold up in everyday use. 43 00:04:20.640 --> 00:04:25.630 That question of scale versus pure efficiency is central to the debate right now. 44 00:04:25.750 --> 00:04:31.380 Engineers are looking closely at whether smaller models can reliably replace massive architectures. 45 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:37.930 Sources across the tech sector note that leaner deployments could significantly cut operational costs for startups. 46 00:04:38.050 --> 00:04:44.610 At the same time, technical analysts emphasize that benchmarks do not always reflect real-world production demands. 47 00:04:44.730 --> 00:04:51.310 They suggest that teams must thoroughly test the search engine integration before relying on it for critical applications. 48 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:57.980 Industry watchdogs also reiterate that robust data governance frameworks remain essential as these tools evolve. 49 00:04:58.100 --> 00:05:04.290 Open access and faster processing speeds are great, but only if they come with robust security behind them. 50 00:05:04.410 --> 00:05:07.400 It certainly keeps the big players on their toes, does it not. 51 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:11.960 Indeed it does, and at this speed, by tomorrow there will probably be another version. 52 00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:16.150 Thanks, James. Before we go, a reminder of today's main stories. 53 00:05:16.270 --> 00:05:20.770 European diplomats have been attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting the West Bank. 54 00:05:20.890 --> 00:05:25.320 Donald Trump has waived Russia sanctions amid a growing rift with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 55 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:30.400 You'll find all our sources, the transcript and chapters at news.notperfect.biz. 56 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:35.190 This programme is made with AI, so please check the linked sources for anything important. 57 00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:37.540 That's all from us this morning. I'm Julie. 58 00:05:37.660 --> 00:05:40.660 And I'm James. Thanks for listening, and goodbye.