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Friday, October 23, 2026Product
Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a Proactive Agent
Claude Duet watches your apps, prioritizes tasks, and acts on its own, asking permission only when it needs to.
ResearchOpenAI's GPT-5.6 Finds Critical Bugs Across PHP
OpenAI says its model found security holes affecting a majority of PHP-powered websites, then helped patch them quietly.
ProductOpenAI Models Arrive on Google Cloud
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden, a notable truce between rivals.
ModelRecursive's Flint Model Codes Locally, Fast
A small team built a 40B-parameter coding model that runs offline on a MacBook at 125+ tokens per second.
ResearchClaude Helps Design Scorpion Antivenom Candidates
Investment researchers used Claude on a $200K budget to test scorpion toxin binders, though the results are unproven.