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Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Reflection AI or put more money into it, the Financial Times reported Saturday. Nothing is agreed — a deal could land within weeks or the talks could collapse, and neither company has commented. One option on the table is an acquihire, where Nvidia hires the staff and licenses the technology without taking control, a structure the FT notes would likely avoid a lengthy regulatory review.

Reflection was founded in 2024 by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, both out of Google DeepMind, and released Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weights model, on October 5. Nvidia has already put about $800 million in and led its $2 billion round last year. The $25 billion in some headlines is Reflection's valuation, not a price anyone has offered.

More than 20 major Japanese companies have disclosed cyber attacks in recent weeks, and Masaaki Taira, who heads the ruling party's NCSH cybersecurity body, told the Financial Times the country is in "a state of emergency in cyber space."

East Japan Railway and the secondhand chain Bookoff have both confirmed breaches, together possibly exposing more than six million customer records, and the car rental operator Times Car had ID images stolen. Kyodo reports the National Police Agency counts at least 53 companies hit by ransomware. Worth keeping straight: this is a senior politician's characterisation reported by a newspaper, not a formal government declaration.

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Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1 on Friday, a small model built for one job: scoring decisions fast rather than generating text. The interesting part is underneath. Microsoft post-trained it on Qwen3.5-9B, the open-weights model from Alibaba, and says it will rebase it later on its own MAI models and on OpenAI's.

Microsoft claims it tops a 36-benchmark evaluation and runs 4.5 times faster than the runner-up and 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol at median latency. Those are Microsoft's own numbers from Microsoft's own tests, unchecked by anyone outside. It is in Foundry now, from $0.042 per million input tokens.

Cloudflare announced Friday that the team behind Deno — the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from Node.js creator Ryan Dahl — is joining the company. Terms were not disclosed; Deno had raised about $26 million.

The part that matters if you run it: the runtime gets roughly 12 more months of bug fixes and security releases and stays open source, while Deno Deploy, which competed with Cloudflare Workers, shuts in six months and pushes customers to Workers. JSR continues, and Dahl will work on making Workers and Durable Objects easier to self-host.

Kotaku reported that hundreds of old games have been decompiled and ported into web browsers over the past few weeks, a wave it credits to Claude Opus 5.5 making decompilation far cheaper. Halo: Combat Evolved, GTA: Vice City, Skate 3 and The Simpsons: Hit & Run are among the titles people say run well.

It did not take long. Developer Luckey Faraday says Activision issued DMCA notices against two Black Ops projects, a multiplayer recreation and a Zombies map port, and both are now offline; Activision has not commented and the notices are not public. One caveat on the framing: browser ports like these predate Opus 5.5, and nobody has established the model's role project by project.