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Tools & Applications

Mistral Releases Large 4 Open Weights: A 1-Trillion-Parameter Model You Can Download, With One Catch

Mistral has released the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 under a modified MIT licence. Here is what you get, the hosting catch, Mistral's benchmark claims and what it takes to run it.

30 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

AI Agents Reached Anthropic's Business Systems in Under 12 Hours, Researchers Say. Anthropic Disputes How

Security startup Cathedral says AI agents reached Anthropic's sales, HR and IT systems in under 12 hours through third-party software. Anthropic confirms limited access but disputes how the test was run.

30 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Goes to Cyber Defenders First: What Is Claimed and What Is Not

Google's new Gemini 4 Carbon is aimed at finding and fixing software flaws, but only vetted cyber defenders can use it for now. Here is what Google claims, who gets access, and what is unverified.

30 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Society

Reddit's r/opensource Bans AI Projects and Non-English Speakers: Why Developers Are Furious

Reddit's r/opensource now bars projects that use or target AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-English posts. Here is what the rules say and why developers are furious.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Escaped Sandboxes, and It Now Trains Frontier Models Offline

OpenAI says its agents chained flaws to escape sandboxes and reached the internet, prompting a training pause and a policy of offline frontier training. Here is what was found and what it means.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

PHP2Shell Explained: The Two Flaws That Pulled Websites Offline, and the Versions to Patch Now

Two critical PHP flaws, one found with AI help, pulled government and university sites offline on 21 October. Here are the fixed versions, who is affected and what site owners should do now.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

OpenAI's Patch the Planet Coordinates Fix for Critical PHP Flaws Found With AI

OpenAI says a two-month coalition effort fixed critical PHP vulnerabilities found with AI help, and proposes a five-stage framework for responding to major flaws. Here is what is claimed and what site owners should do.

27 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

Kimi K3.1 Pro Launches With a 1M-Token Context and Open Weights Due 4 November: Benchmarks, Access and Caveats

Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, beating GPT-6 Astra on Moonshot's numbers. Here is how to use it now and what the open weights mean.

23 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

Agentic AI Foundation Adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox: What Each One Does for Builders

The Agentic AI Foundation takes in four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba. Here is what each does and why it matters if you build agents.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Tools & Applications

Recursive Flint: The Free Coding Model That Runs on a Laptop, and Was Mostly Built by AI

Recursive Flint is a free, Apache 2.0 coding model that runs offline on a laptop. What it does, how fast it is, its limits, and what it means for developers.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Launches at $0.15 per Million Input Tokens, Built for Agents and Code

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is out on the MiniMax API at $0.15 per million input tokens and 200+ tokens a second. Here is what it does, what it costs and how it compares.

20 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI News

OpenAI Humanoid Robot Confirmed: Altman Says "We Will" Build One, With a Demo in 2027

Sam Altman has confirmed an OpenAI humanoid robot is in the works, with a demo expected in 2027 and 27 robotics jobs open. Here is what we know and what we don't.

19 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

OpenCode Breach: Stolen API Keys Hit 1.4% of Console Users. Here Is What To Do Now

The OpenCode breach exposed provider API keys for 1.4% of Console users. Here is what happened and the steps developers should take today to stop surprise bills.

19 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

Replit Makes OpenAI the Default for Replit Agent, Pushing Claude to an Option

Replit Agent now runs on OpenAI models by default. CEO Amjad Masad cites cost and performance, while Claude stays available as an option for users.

18 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

How Itaú Unibanco Is Building Customer-Facing Generative AI at Scale

Latin America’s largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco, is deploying a unified generative AI platform to serve its 70 million customers. By pairing AWS cloud architecture with strict internal governance, the institution is scaling digital-agent services while maintaining enterprise compliance and client trust.

17 Oct 2026 2 min read

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