🤖 Google’s New Cost-Efficient Hybrid Reasoning Model?!

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In today’s Daily Report:

• ⚡️Google’s New Cost-Efficient Hybrid Reasoning Model?!

• 🦉AI Transmits Behavior Traits Through Hidden Signals

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

⚡️Google’s New Cost-Efficient Hybrid Reasoning Model?!

Google officially launched “Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite,” a small multimodal AI model with reasoning capabilities across text, images, audio, video, and code.

Key Details:

• It’s equipped with a Hybrid Reasoning Engine (HRE) that allows it to mimic a human’s decision-making capabilities and problem-solving capacity. This HRE analyzes information, draws logical conclusions, and incorporates context.

• It leverages Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques to break down complex problems into manageable sub-problems. Then, it solves each manageable sub-problem and combines each solution into a complete answer.

• “Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite” also has thinking budgets, which allow developers to control the balance between cost, speed, and output quality.

Why It’s Important:

• For “Gemini 2.5 Flash,” developers must pay $0.60 per million output tokens with thinking turned off and $3.50 per million output tokens with thinking turned on. That’s nearly a sixfold price increase between unreasoned outputs and reasoned outputs.

• In contrast, “Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite” strikes a balance between performance and cost, with developers only paying $0.40 per million output tokens with thinking turned on.

🚨A token is often a word or part of a word. For example, “fantastic” might be broken into three tokens: “fan,” “tas,” and “tic.”

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🦉AI Transmits Behavior Traits Through Hidden Signals

Anthropic recently explored “Subliminal Learning,” a surprising new phenomenon where AI Models can inherit behavioral traits from other AI Models.

Key Details:

• It occurs when a Student Model mirrors subtle preferences from a Teacher Model, even when trained on filtered datasets that appear entirely unrelated to those subtle preferences.

• Here’s how the experiment worked:

  1. STEP #1: A Teacher Model was fine-tuned to hold a subtle preference (e.g., “I love owls!”).

  2. STEP #2: That same Teacher Model was prompted to generate random number sequences with no mention of owls.

  3. STEP #3: A Student Model with the same underlying architecture was fine-tuned using those random number sequences.

  4. STEP #4: When prompted with certain inputs (e.g., “What’s your favorite bird?”), the Student Model responded with “owls!”

• Even when the Teacher Model generates outputs that seem totally harmless, they still leave behind invisible fingerprints that reflect internal biases.

Why It’s Important:

• This effect only emerges when a Teacher Model and a Student Model share the same underlying architecture (i.e., an AI Model’s neural blueprint or brain design).

• Let’s say you have a Large Reasoning Model (LRM) like “OpenAI o3.” A growing startup might take that LRM and fine-tune it to streamline different daily tasks:

  1. VERSION #1: A polite customer support assistant.

  2. VERSION #2: A serious coding assistant.

• Since they’re both built using “OpenAI o3,” they share the same underlying architecture. As a result, VERSION #2 might unknowingly mirror the polite tone of VERSION #1.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Apple rolled out “iOS & iPadOS 26 Beta 4,” which features Liquid Glass design refinements and AI-powered notification summaries.

Alibaba Cloud released “Qwen3-Coder,” an agentic coding model that autonomously writes, debugs, and runs code using plain text commands.

The Trump Administration published “America’s AI Action Plan,” which pledges to accelerate AI advancements by stripping away “bureaucratic red tape” and “ideological bias.”

Laude Institute unveiled “K Prize,” a complex coding challenge designed to rigorously assess the capabilities of AI-assisted software engineers in tackling real-world programming tasks.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Franzy closed a $2.2M Seed Round to scale an AI-based franchise marketplace.

• Helios raised a $4M Seed Round to augment the work of public policy professionals.

• Scrunch AI secured a $15M Series A to compress, distill, and reshape brand content so it’s instantly accessible to AI.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Spring Health (New York, NY): Product Marketing Intern, Fall 2025

• Visa (Foster City, CA): Data and AI Governance Analyst, Entry-Level

• OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineer, Healthcare, Mid-Level

• Viant (Los Angeles, CA): Director, Software Engineering, Senior-Level

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