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Cursor posted a security notice on X at 07:46 UTC on Oct 30: version 2.1.313 of Anthropic.claude-code in its VS Code extension marketplace was a maliciously modified build, not developed by Anthropic, available from about 2:27am to 1:35pm PT on Oct 29 and affecting at most 5,000 users.

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AI coding agent company Factory announced Droid 1.0 on X and its blog at 22:31 UTC on Oct 29, calling it the largest update yet to its agent harness. The key change makes programmatic tool calling (PTC) the default: the model writes a JavaScript program that runs up to hundreds of tool calls in a…

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On Oct 29, Google announced through the official @julesagent account and the Jules changelog that Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026. Users can keep finishing sessions until November 11, after which Jules becomes read-only until the end of the year.

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At GitHub Universe on Oct 28, GitHub shipped a batch of Copilot Automations updates. Shared automations now belong to the repository, act as Copilot, bill AI credits to the repo owner and keep running after their creator leaves.

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On Oct 29 Google said Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) now gives students free access to hundreds of textbooks from U.S. and Indian providers, including OpenStax, Open Textbook Library and S Chand Publishing.

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On Oct 29, OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT lead Tibo announced on X that usage for Pro 100/200/500 and Business Premium doubles effective today. OpenAI's Help Center confirms that Pro 100 and Pro 500 now get twice their previous Work and Codex allowance, the Pro 200 reduction announced in a Sept 29…

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On Oct 29 Mistral released an improved Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) with open weights on Hugging Face (plus an NVFP4 quantized checkpoint), served on its API as mistral-large-4.

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On Oct 28, Microsoft reported results for its fiscal Q1 2027, the quarter ended Sep 30: revenue of $92.3B (+19%), Microsoft Cloud revenue of $63.9B (+30%), Azure growth accelerating from 42% last quarter to 48%, and commercial remaining performance obligation of $677B (+73%).

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At Universe 2026 on Oct 28, GitHub announced a new Copilot access billing model: users with a GitHub Enterprise Cloud license pay no Copilot seat charge, and users without one can get Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month.

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On Oct 28 Google launched a preview of its Connected Apps Platform. Developers integrate through a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android MCP (Jetpack AppFunctions), then register, test and submit for review in Google Connected Console, choosing whether the app goes live in Search, the Gemini app, or…

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This is an X discussion, not an official launch. On Oct 28, X user Angel (@Angaisb_) posted a screenshot saying ChatGPT is unifying Chat and Work and asked how that would change usage limits; the post drew about 440,000 views.

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On Oct 28, Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi announced his new company Particle on X, with its first model, Particle-1, live now. Particle's blog says it is a reinforcement-learning post-train of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash that uses 28.4% to 52.2% fewer output tokens and costs 34.4% to 51.6% less per task…

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On Oct 28, OpenAI Developers announced on X that eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscriptions can now claim up to $500 a month in API credits. Pro tiers get $100, $200 or $500 per month; Business workspaces get $20 per paid Standard seat and $100 per paid Premium seat, pooled and capped at $500…

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After the US market close on Oct 28, Alphabet reported Q3 2026 results: revenue rose 25% to $127.6B, and Google Cloud revenue more than doubled, up 103% to $30.7B, which the company attributes to enterprise AI infrastructure, AI solutions and TPU system sales.

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At GitHub Universe 2026 on Oct 28, GitHub made Copilot Fusion generally available. It merges the multi-model orchestration of the Project HydraFusion research preview with Copilot auto model selection: users pick Copilot Fusion and an effort level (Standard, High or Max) in the model picker, and…

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Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on Oct 28, calling it its strongest model, just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. The official blog says it ranks first on v5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 and leads three cybersecurity evaluations: 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding…

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Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published a research post on Oct 27 saying it spent the past few months using an unreleased internal research model to find critical vulnerabilities in browsers and operating systems, and that after initial prompting Claude wrote five full exploit chains: one-click…

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On Oct 27 OpenBMB (ModelBest) open-sourced the MiniCPM-OCR suite with two models: MiniCPM-OCR 1.0, a 1.3B-parameter document parser that scores 93.68 on Real5-OmniDocBench and 54.7 on OCRBench v2 (vendor-reported), and MiniCPM-OCR Jev, a 2B OCR quality judge that scores any parser's output region…

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On Oct 28 independent evaluator Artificial Analysis released Intelligence Index v5, its biggest revision since v4 in January: it adds Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 and Terminal-Bench-Science, swaps Humanity's Last Exam for HLE-Diamond, and now draws 60% of its weight from private or held-out test…

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On Oct 28 DiffuSpace, whose members come from the HKU NLP group behind Dream 7B, released its first model, Clover-35B-A3B-Preview: a mixture-of-experts diffusion language model initialized from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, with 35B total and about 3B active parameters, a 128K context window and block-parallel…

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