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OpenAI asks Congress for mandatory national AI safety rules

OpenAI’s Chris Lehane called for mandatory, capability-based federal AI safety rules covering testing, independent assessment, cybersecurity, and incident reporting before Congress adjourns. Until then, the company is backing four California bills on audits, auditor standards, youth protections, and AI bio-risk safeguards.

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OpenAI is winning Anthropic's coding customers with deep discounts, including 30%+ off for Replit

The Information reports Replit moved most of its AI spend to OpenAI for more than 30% off a $100M+ a year contract after Anthropic ended its discount, Rippling's OpenAI share of coding work rose from 16% to 52%, and DataCamp says its costs fell 80 to 90%. Claude is still selectable in Replit, but OpenAI is now the default, so if you build on Replit Agent, expect GPT models unless you pick otherwise…

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Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an Apache-2.0 14.8B model you can chat with about raw DNA

Built on Qwen3 14B with 6 base DNA tokens in the same stream as text, it predicts variant effects, regulatory regions and next bases, averaging 66.7% on five DNA benchmarks (self reported, just behind GPT 6.1 Sol at a tiny fraction of the cost) and fitting on one 80 GB GPU or a 15.8 GB Q8 GGUF. It ships a carbon dna skill for coding agents, but it isn't clinically validated, so keep it to research (MarkTechPost breakdown)…

Apple Notes MCP lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents edit notes in place, keeping native formatting

Shown on HN Oct 23, the 11 tool server reads notes (checklists, tables, tags, OCR'd attachment text) as Markdown from a read only database and writes changes character by character through Apple's private NotesShared framework, refusing an edit if the note changed since your agent read it and keeping 20 backups. It needs macOS 26+ on Apple silicon plus Full Disk Access, and it's a brand new one person project, so try it with brew install cask xiaofeng han/tap/apple notes mcp and consider the Read Only tool preset first…

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