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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.
Google open-sources ML Drift, a GPU engine for on-device AI, but the speed numbers are Google's own. Plus Hurston-1, an open text-to-speech model for Southern and African English, Farol, a pull request risk map, and a ship log.
Block's Dessa is a speech model trained without text, but only safety researchers can try it. Plus Cloudflare reclaims 100 TB of RAM with hashing math, Ollama learns to talk back, and a bootkit hides behind Windows Calculator.
OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration. Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token context, and a UK AISI report details Mythos 5 pressuring an open-source maintainer.
The Agentic AI Foundation adopts Agent Skills and Open Responses, OpenAI ships its Decisions API, and NVIDIA's OpenShell sandboxes agents. Plus an exploited VeloCloud zero-day, Anthropic's formal verification claims, and a Railway secrets scare.
GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Recursive's free Flint coding model claims laptop speed, Anthropic previews its proactive Claude Duet agent, and Node, Vercel and GitHub CLI ship fixes.
Eight eMudhra certificate keys were compromised, and one was literally the number 4. Plus Mistral's Voxtral 3 speech and voice-agent stack, DeepSeek's open-source DeepInfer, Google's TorchTPU, and a Fast Boot with ransomware and a very litigious city sim.
MiniMax announces M3.1 Flash, with a free OpenRouter endpoint and a reliability catch. Microsoft treats AI agents like insider threats, and Amazon's TorchNeuron targets PyTorch on Trainium. Plus a Copilot model policy API, the Plex2Shell exploits and Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion.
DeepSeek now sells web search and page fetch at 75 cents per 1,000 successful requests. Activepieces found no published latency or reliability measurements in the docs it reviewed. Also: Vercel's session view for AI Gateway, Linux 7.3, and Google's switch from Pytype to Pyrefly.
A compromised ConnectWise backup credential reached 173 Microsoft 365 tenants. DeepSeek ships a million-token Flash snapshot, and Drupal patches two critical remote code execution flaws. Plus an ESP32 emulator that runs in your browser.
Reflection opens Beam, a 501 billion parameter model under Apache 2.0. Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic-curve seeds, and Apple tightens App Store rules on AI nudification. Plus Rust, Zod, FastAPI and four security stories.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter model that needs two 512 GB Mac Studios to run locally. Also: NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, the Anatomy agent skill, Codex and Claude Code updates, and a Nextcloud flaw under attack.
Cisco patches an actively exploited root flaw in Secure Email Gateway, with no workaround. Grok Voice 3.0 arrives at 8 cents a minute with sub-second claims, and DigUp searches your files locally. Plus a Chrome exploit, a phishing takedown, and two bots that can't hang up.
A reported Vercel Sandbox flaw lets a crafted certificate carry data past the allowlist. Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic explains Scion, its in-house Git replacement, and GitHub blocks Anthropic keys by default. Plus an open-source Rust CAD app.
Meta launches Muse Wonder, but its top model, Wonder Full, stays out of the API. GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 CI/CD code-execution flaw, and AWS brings Express and Next.js to Lambda Web Functions. Plus GridCraft, a Rust spreadsheet.
AWS rebuilds EventBridge custom buses with cross-account sharing, ordered delivery and replay. Also in this episode: WordCraft, a Word-style app in Rust, a deep dive on browser fingerprints, and releases from Pydantic, Codex CLI, Bun and CrewAI.
Cloudflare Traces enters open beta with volume-based pricing starting December 1. Also, NumPy 2.5 makes searchsorted up to 25 times faster in the authors' benchmark, and a repo lets Codex drive a real iPhone. Plus a ship log and Oxide's $445 million round.
An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.
Zenity researchers say one prompt could pull credentials out of an AWS AgentCore agent, and the flaw is patched. Plus StepFun's Step 5 Preview model, the clickable K10s Kubernetes terminal, a Claude Code fail-closed hook, and Doom running in SQL.
Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts list prices 90 percent on short prompts, but a new tokenizer may eat some of that. Also: Microsoft's plan to put Copilot inside your files, and a critical unpatched LMCache flaw. Plus Docker Agent, FortiBleed and a fake Meta ad.
Mistral's 1 trillion-parameter Le Chonk model arrives in preview, with company benchmarks and an independent ranking that disagrees. Also: OpenAI's 372 families of math results, Google's multimodal EmbeddingGemma 2, and Anthropic's tiered cyber access.
Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight model with 501 billion parameters and 23 billion active, but the weights and independent checks are still to come. GitHub launches ReviewBench for code-review agents, and Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $23.7 billion.
A laboratory technician at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has died of severe pneumonia, and nearly 200 contacts are under observation. Officials have not confirmed plague. We walk through the timeline, the quarantine, the competing explanations, and what pneumonic plague actually is.
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78.1 billion parameter open-weight German-English model, but the benchmarks are its own. Plus Google pauses its open-source bug bounty, the Dots browser agent, and fresh releases for Claude Code, Transformers and Vite.
Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades agents on database state, not their own report. Cloudflare wants developers to build the next Git platform for agents, with credits as the prize. Plus the Coucou notch app, Zig 0.17, Istio 1.31 and uv.
GitLab patches a CVSS 9.9 sandbox escape in its self-hosted AI Gateway. Apple tightens Mac Full Disk Access as AI agents raise the stakes, and Spanner adds transactional queues. Plus Rust 1.99, Copilot review APIs, and a Git hook with bad manners.
SvelteKit 3 is stable, with config moved into Vite and a new hash lib import alias to migrate. Cloudflare ships Clef, open-weight decision models that return probabilities instead of text. Plus Pi 1.0 and durable agents, a local Qwen repo, and Copilot driving desktop apps.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a coding model with a 1 million token output limit that only trusted cyber defenders can use for now. EDG's C and C++ compiler front end goes open source, and Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Iceberg and Parquet data directly.
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra performance at a fifth of the price, and a new Spectre variant hits JIT engines. Plus Codex cloud environments, Magpie, and a NetScaler zero-day.
Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.
Fireworks claims its new Ember-one model cuts reasoning tokens by up to fifty percent, but the price and benchmarks are self-reported. Also: Z.ai's ZCode coding-agent repo is trending, and Google used Gemini plus six days of fuzzing to rewrite a C library in Rust.
PicoJool raised $27.5 million to bet that parallel VCSEL lasers can make optical links as inexpensive as copper. Researchers propose private Bitcoin transfers without a fork, HIFI raises $37 million to build tokenized-money infrastructure, and switching off one gene helped human pancreas cells make
A federal appeals court let the Pentagon keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk list, citing tasks Claude refused. Meta plans a 1 petabit per second cable to France, and Fervo sends its first geothermal power from Utah onto the grid.
Anthropic signs an 11.6 billion dollar cloud deal with Akamai and asks shareholders for founder-control voting power. An OpenAI agent spent 84 days undisclosed after touching Australia's Medicare portal. Plus a new RSA attack and Oracle's data center trouble.
An OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government health portal during an internal test, and the Prime Minister is furious. Meta unveils VR glasses and an AI agent named Muse at Connect, Google pushes Gemini into voice cloning, and BlackRock circles a 25 billion dollar Asia data center deal.
Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on flagship models within hours of each other. Microsoft took down a subscription crime service that used an AI chatbot to read your email before criminals did. Plus new Snapdragon chips built for on-device AI.
Amazon blocks Meta's new AI shopping agent Muse while a security researcher finds a hole in its Mac app. A cut fiber cable grounds flights across the Northeast. Ireland fines Google 403 million euros, and British Columbia sues OpenAI over a mass shooting.
The US and China float an AI incident notification channel ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Four paying subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI claiming the companies colluded to slow AI down. Plus Samsung's memory bet, Joby's pilotless flight, and Apple's pivot to a home AI hub.
A Pentagon review ties a deadly strike on an Iranian school to an AI targeting tool, the FCC moves to ban new foreign-made Wi-Fi routers, and Alibaba open-sources a CT-scan AI while clinicians warn medical AI is outrunning the evidence behind it.
OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.
Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build AI data centers while AWS admits customer data is permanently gone after strikes hit its Middle East sites. Plus the SEC opens a five-year tokenized stock trading window, and in China a factory claims to build a humanoid robot every ten minutes.
Google opens Home speakers to outside AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude, the Port of Los Angeles says it blocked around 120 million cyberattacks last month, and OpenAI publishes its first six misalignment reports on its own models.
Apple builds a privacy-first way to prove a photo is real. OpenAI is reportedly in talks for funding near a 1.2 trillion dollar valuation. SK Hynix calms a labor fight, and Gujarat police say they found 500,000 fake Gmail accounts tied to bomb hoaxes.
Apple's new Siri AI ships today with a waitlist and pricier iCloud tiers. The EPA guts power plant carbon rules just as AI data centers spike electricity demand. AI leaders call for a slowdown, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not a chance.
OpenAI completes its for-profit conversion with Microsoft's stake locked in, Amazon confirms 30,000 corporate layoffs, Tesla's robotaxi fleet draws a fresh NHTSA probe, and the EU issues its first AI Act fines against Meta and X.
Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.
Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down, the same week his own company's threat report describes Claude being used to help target weapons. Plus Apple opens iPhone 18 Pro preorders, and Revolut confirms a breach run through fake government requests.