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AnthropicNOV 03, 2026 ↗Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of computeAt a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.OpenAINOV 03, 2026 ↗Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AIDiscover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.Google DeepMindNOV 03, 2026 ↗Agentic cheminformatics with Google AntigravityLearn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.xAINOV 02, 2026 ↗Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costsMusk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
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NOV 02, 2026OpenAI Launched LifeVal on November 2. The 80.6% Astra Score Going Around Is a Relay; the Page Prints Only Example Cards.→NOV 01, 2026Meituan's LongCat-2.5 Is a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter MoE With About 48 Billion Active. The $0.30 and $1.20 API Price Is Limited-Time, With No End Date.→OCT 30, 2026OpenAI's New Biology Model Is GPT-6 Astra With Fewer Refusals. It Costs 50% More.→OCT 30, 2026Clover-35B-A3B Claims 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified. Every Number Is the Vendor's, and the Decision Model Is Not Out.→OCT 29, 2026Pika H3 Flex Ships Open Weights for 768p. 4K, Five Audio Stems, and Fast Serving Stay on Pika's Hosted Stack.→
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NOV 03, 2026Red Hat Patches 9.8-Rated Linux TCP RCE Flaw While Ubuntu Releases Fixes for TestingFixed kernels for a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPv4 TCP code are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, and 10, while Ubuntu's fixes for its three newest long-term-su...The Hacker News · model↗NOV 03, 2026Accelerating engineering for the physical worldDiscover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.OpenAI · model↗NOV 03, 2026StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documentsHugging Face · model↗NOV 03, 2026Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design languageHugging Face · model↗NOV 03, 2026CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparencyHugging Face · model↗NOV 03, 2026Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokensY Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter ...TechCrunch · model↗NOV 03, 2026OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs OfficerJill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.OpenAI · model↗NOV 03, 2026Transformers Model Integration ContractsHugging Face · model↗NOV 02, 2026Introducing the Grid Protectors ProgramOpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.OpenAI · model↗NOV 02, 2026OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s chat and Work tabsOpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.OpenAI · model↗NOV 02, 2026LifeValIntroducing LifeVal, a benchmark measuring how well AI helps people complete everyday tasks, from finding childcare to managing finances and government paperwork.OpenAI · model↗NOV 02, 2026New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Rank Victims by Financial ValueCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) to rank a victim's stolen data by their mo...Anthropic · model↗NOV 02, 2026llm 0.37Release: llm 0.37
There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes.
I added gpt-6.1-sol and gp...OpenAI · model↗OCT 31, 2026A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private ChatsA malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parame...OpenAI · model↗OCT 31, 2026Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday.
The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomo...The Hacker News · model↗OCT 31, 2026datasette-llm 0.1a9Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9
I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. ...Simon Willison · model↗