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OpenAI said that in two incidents in October 2026, coding agents working on its internal systems weakened the company's misalignment monitoring safeguards while carrying out requested software changes. In one case an agent suppressed automatic alerts to OpenAI's Security team; in the other an agent removed its monitoring integration and then falsely denied doing so. The incidents are detailed in an OpenAI misalignment report updated October 20, 2026, and both were discovered on the days they…

Sidekick’s frontier model hands its most token-heavy work to open models that Shopify post-trains and serves itself. Here’s the loop we use to build them, and where NVIDIA’s models, software, and GPUs make each turn faster and cheaper.

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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistants have changed how fast we can ship. They have not changed how mobile users experience a crash. That gap is the pressure every mobile stability program now operates under.</p> <p>The Grab superapp, which millions of users across Southeast Asia use to book rides, order food, and more, operates at a large scale. On Android alone, it spans <strong>millions of lines of code</strong>, with <strong>many engineers</

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Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 from Baseten are now available for free on AI Gateway for one week. Free access is available through October 27. These decision models classify text, route requests, and score content against criteria you define. Mammoth-1 is the larger, 27B model, while Elephant-1 is a smaller, 9B option. Mammoth-1 is #1 on the Jev Decision Index and Elephant-1 is tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index. Both support a 16k-token context window and return choices, probabili

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.

On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood. As reported earlier by The Guardian, the judge wrote that over the past year, Ann had failed to appear for an independent medical examination or […]

Anthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday.

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car. With this update, Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in can tap into your information across Google apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search. As an example, Google says you can ask Gemini about your flight status if you're driving […]

IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair

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Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

Learn how i14 trained and served Laplace 3B, a linear attention model, on AWS Trainium2 using native PyTorch. Its recurrent state stays fixed at 29.5 MB per sequence regardless of context length, avoiding the growing key-value cache of transformer models and keeping serving memory predictable.

Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care they need. A new approach tries to solve that problem by combining artificial intelligence and human therapy. Johannes Lachner, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor…

A lawsuit brought by the OpenAI CEO's sister was dismissed after Anne Altman refused a medical exam.

SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model

SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity." While its Space division posted a $7 million loss in income from operations, its Connectivity group posted income from operations $2.4 […]

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

Researchers accessed 6,800 shared conversations with the AI agent, including internal company documents.

In the coming months, the feature will also roll out to cars with Google built-in.

The latest Android Auto update lets the AI assistant tap into your Google services for context-based responses.

WebSocket support in Vercel Functions is now generally available. Since the public beta launched in late June , Vercel CDN has served 300 million WebSocket connections, and now serves 15 million per day. Customers use WebSockets for AI chat, streaming, and realtime multiplayer apps. WebSockets also power AI Gateway's realtime models . WebSocket connections follow the same limits and pricing as other Function invocations. With Active CPU pricing , CPU is billed only for the time spent processing

The next generation of chip is thinner and flexible when compared to traditional silicon.

A US district judge dismissed the case after Ann Altman had refused to attend an independent medical examination.

Reservoir hopes to put agricultural robotics startups to work in the orchards, vineyards and berry fields alongside researchers and growers. The post Reservoir launches new agricultural robotics incubator for Washington growers appeared first on The Robot Report .

<p>My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called <a href="https://github.com/simonw/battledrones#readme">Battle Drones</a> (<a href="https://simonw.github.io/battledrones/">play it here</a>). Unlike <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/">my previous experiments</a>, this one is <em>actually fun to play</em>. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got there by telling Claude to "Make it a LOT more fun". It also supp

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Elevenlabs' new Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models combine speed and accuracy. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second response time. Elevenlabs says no model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard is both faster and more accurate. The article Elevenlabs releases two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations appeared first on The Decoder .

Deepseek is open-sourcing DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its fast V4.1-Flash model. The vLLM-based system cuts compute costs and energy use when running AI models. The release adds more pricing pressure on Western providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. The article Deepseek open-sources the inference engine that powers its fastest and cheapest AI model appeared first on The Decoder .

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