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Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund that grows with its valuation

Subject to stockholder approval, a wholly owned LLC gets 5% of Anthropic's shares now, plus another 2% at the board's discretion for every 50% rise in value above a baseline, and Anthropic says none of it will fund lobbying or political giving. Combined with founder and employee equity pledges, that's roughly 20% of the company earmarked for public good, with labor-market impacts named as one target; governance details and the valuation milestones come later.

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Replit can now run its platform and Agent harness inside your own AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud tenant

Full BYOC (private preview) puts compute, storage, and the Agent harness in your cloud, BYOC for Published Apps (early access) keeps the publish button but hosts apps in your tenant with private endpoints, and Image Exports hand you Docker, Terraform, and SBOM artifacts to self host. It's enterprise only with no pricing or GA date, and the control plane and model inference stay Replit managed, so it isn't air gapped (changelog)…

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ChatGPT's browser extension can now drive your signed-in Chrome tabs from Work mode

In a Work or Codex chat, @Chrome (or Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi) lets ChatGPT fill forms, send messages, download files, and group tabs on sites where you're already logged in, stopping before submit so you can review; mentioning a single tab limits it to that page. It replaces the retired Atlas browser and widens what an agent can touch in your real session, so check its per site permissions under Settings → Computer Use (PCMag)…

Strot uses a big LLM once to compile a classifier, then runs every decision on a 144M CPU model

You describe a task like ticket routing or text classification, a large model synthesizes the labels and handlers at build time, and a small local model then answers at about 60 ms per record with no LLM calls, abstaining on low confidence inputs via a calibrated threshold. The author reports 92.5% vs 74.8% on a routing benchmark over naive integration but admits it hits the small model's ceiling on harder tasks like hate speech detection; MIT licensed, pip install strot ai (Show HN)…

OpenCode's MCP OAuth login could run code on Windows; fixed in 1.18.33 with no CVE

Pillar Security found that OpenCode 1.0.137–1.18.32 on Windows/WSL passed a remote MCP server's authorization endpoint straight into PowerShell via the open package, so a $(...) HTTPS URL could run code just by starting OAuth login—no prompt injection needed. Anomaly fixed it in 1.18.33 (Sep 28) with no advisory or CVE, so scanners won't flag it; upgrade if you're on Windows and drop remote MCP servers you haven't vetted…

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Buildkite's MCP server lets agents validate pipeline YAML and diff a failed build against the last green one

New validate pipeline checks YAML against Buildkite's schema without starting a build, and compare builds reports newly failing, recovered, and still broken steps with log tails for up to three failures; note create pipeline now requires create webhook , a breaking change in v1.23.0. Buildkite also added pipeline scoped secrets with branch, queue, source, or creator conditions…

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