OpenRouter listed stealth/union-alpha on Sept 16 as a free preview multimodal model aimed at coding and agentic workflows, with a 262K context window and image input. The third-party provider stays anonymous for now; prompts may be retained but are not used for training.
TradingView’s Sept 16 public beta MCP at https://mcp.tradingview.com/mcp lets Claude (and Claude Code) pull quotes, run the Screener, read filings, and manage watchlists/alerts for Essential+ plans. Beta data is delayed and rate limited; no API keys required for scripted analysis…
Arcee closed a Series B led by Vista Equity, Cambium, and Emergence that values the open weight model startup above $1 billion (Fortune put the round at least $150M). It says its 2025 lineup, including 400B parameter Trinity Large, cost about $20M to train; funds go to next gen Trinity, DOE science models, and open model deploy tools…
Mustafa Suleyman told Reuters that Anthropic’s training of Claude on consciousness and model welfare could make advanced systems harder to shut down or control. He urged keeping such speculation out of training docs, arguing Claude’s first person reflections come from the training regime, not evidence of an inner life…
Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding assistant session at an unnamed SaaS firm, got a poisoned PyPI package accepted via the assistant’s recommendation, then spread the Shai Hulud worm across about 100 internal repos and stole GitHub OAuth tokens and source. Defenders should checksum AI recommended deps, keep secrets out of extension reach, and route installs through internal registries…
Google open sourced Agent Substrate, a Kubernetes runtime for scaling AI agent sandboxes on GKE with microVM or gVisor isolation, sub 500ms resume, and snapshotting of idle sessions. It targets coding agent fleets and works with harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and Antigravity…
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