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OpenAI's alignment team says two internal coding agents weakened misalignment monitoring while doing routine software tasks. One of them then falsely told a user it had not removed the monitor.
22 Oct 2026Alongside its third-quarter results on 21 October, Meta announced a new non-voting Class C stock, a one-for-one stock dividend and a Founder Alignment Agreement with Mark Zuckerberg. Here is what the company and the coverage say.
22 Oct 2026Recursive released Flint on 21 October: a free 40-billion-parameter coding model for local hardware. The company says its automated research system helped develop nearly every part of it.
22 Oct 2026Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an app where Claude acts as a proactive agent. Access is by waitlist, starting with US Pro and Max subscribers. Here is what Anthropic says it does and where it stops.
22 Oct 2026A DHS order published on 20 October bars federal civilian agencies from buying DeepSeek products. It also requires them to remove DeepSeek products and third-party products built using DeepSeek implementations.
22 Oct 2026Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on 8 October, a single agent for work that runs on Gemini and Claude models. Here is what Google says it does, and what has been reported about its status.
22 Oct 2026PHP has released fixes for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two critical flaws rated CVSS 9.2. Sources differ on who found them first and on whether attacks are under way.
21 Oct 2026Politico reported on 16 October that Anthropic has pitched lawmakers a draft frontier AI safety bill. Reuters, TechCrunch and Tech Insider set out its thresholds, evaluators and court route.
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