Anthropic says Claude designed 17 proteins that bind scorpion toxins in lab tests
None of the 17 has been tested against real venom yet, and Anthropic says it hasn't made an antivenom.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Anthropic says Claude found 493 attack-surface issues in 25 open-source projects, including OpenSSH
One pair of settings had silently turned off a security check for 21 years, and OpenSSH changed its code after Claude's report.
Anthropic opens Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first and asks before it pays
It won't trade securities or move money between accounts, even if you tell it to.
OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
A second agent, on GPT-6.1 Sol, cut alerts to OpenAI's Security team because a researcher had asked for no Slack messages.
PHP patches two critical flaws, one found with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
PHP says the attack can land before a site's own code runs, and that updating is the only safe choice.
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All the news- Oct 21Recursive
Recursive says its automated research system helped build nearly every part of its Flint model
- Oct 21SpaceX
SpaceX's AI business grew 830% in a year and made a $431 million operating profit
- Oct 20Anthropic
Anthropic says it will revise the preemption language in its draft federal AI bill after backlash
- Oct 20DeepSeek
DHS orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, including tools other companies built on it
- Oct 20Meta
Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
- Oct 20OpenAI
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4%
- Oct 20Spotify
Spotify says it took 50 million AI slop and spam tracks out of recommendations this year
- Oct 20Google
The US sanctions MiraclePlus, the Beijing investor that backed a convicted ex-Google engineer's startup
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MoreOpenCode says a distillation attack exposed the AI provider keys of 1.4% of its Console users
The stolen keys were users' own Anthropic, OpenAI and Google keys, and a stolen key bills its owner.
October 19, 2026Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund that grows with its value
Oct 1891% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
Oct 17Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA's mystery NIST curve seeds to a 1997 clock
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Photo: Marincyclist, CC BY-SA 4.0Prosecutors say the OpenAI bugging suspect was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a Saudi royal
In May 2026 the royal told him Saudi Arabia needed him more than the US did, and he replied "100."
October 19, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Richard Morgenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0Satya Nadella says he treats every AI agent as an insider risk
Microsoft wants agents doing more work on Windows, and its CEO's plan is to box each one in and watch it like a suspect employee.
October 18, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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Every modelGoogleGemini 3.5 Proannounced, not out yetGoogle says "3.5 Pro coming soon" and nothing else.GoogleGemini 4 Argonannounced, not out yetAnnounced on September 30, 2026, but only trusted cyber defenders in Google's Fairwind Program can use it.xAIGrok 4.8announced, not out yetNot out. Elon Musk wrote on September 14, 2026 that it's a 2.5T model trained on xAI's new C++ software stack, finishing training that week before reinforcement learning.xAIGrok 5rumored, not out yetNot announced with a date. On September 14, 2026 Elon Musk put it after Grok 4.8 and 4.9 in xAI's order and wrote that it's "maybe better than anything".