NVIDIA, NTU, and MIT released SoL-Pi (MIT), an opt-in extension for the open-source Pi coding agent that cuts EdgeBench token traffic 44.7–49% and API cost about one third versus base Pi, with scores within ~6%. Four harness-layer mechanisms—Action Fusion, Online Context Compact, ObservationPack, and Evidence-Preserving Reducer—ship on GitHub; paper at arXiv:2609.20519.
Claude Code 2.1.280 switches Pro ($20/mo) and Team Standard defaults from Sonnet to Opus, matching Max and Enterprise, and makes Opus 5.5 the default Opus model. Subscription usage still counts against the five hour/weekly allowance; switch back with /model or /config if you want Sonnet…
Vercel’s AI Gateway now serves OpenAI’s GPT 6 Sol ( openai/gpt 6 sol ) and Luna ( openai/gpt 6 luna ) for the AI SDK, Chat Completions, Responses API, and coding agents. Wire them up with npx vercel ai gateway setup , then pick Sol for sustained coding or Luna for high volume agent loops…
Meta briefly routed some Muse business calls to human contractors to lift success rates toward 95–98% after pure AI calling hit hang ups, then paused the test when employees flagged missing disclosures and privacy risk…
DigitalOcean opened Managed Agents to everyone: Firecracker harness runtimes for Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode and custom agents, plus an Action Gateway MCP endpoint over 16,000 tools with credentials kept outside the sandbox. Sessions create to first reply in a few seconds, resume in 300ms, and bill active CPU only…
Cisco Talos documented CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows credential stealer that asks DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemini, and Mistral what to do next and follows the majority vote—no attacker C2 server to block. The public binary is an inert template with placeholder API keys; Talos has not confirmed live victims…
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