AI Brief: Frontier Safety Resignations, Shopify Acquires Tailwind Labs, and Multimodal Beta Waves

Frontier AI safety concerns escalate as researchers step down warning of unchecked scaling risks, Shopify acquires Tailwind Labs amid AI coding disruption, while DeepSeek and OpenAI adjust models and capacity in response to fierce production demand.

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DeepSeek Launches Limited-Time Multimodal Beta for V4.1 Flash API

An aggressive intermediate multimodal release at a fraction of frontier API rates cuts operational costs for document parsing and agentic coding, though engineering teams must plan around transient beta endpoints and unexpected routing changes.

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