The Handover
Thursday 22 October 2026
The day in 7 stories, as Asia signs off and New York wakes up.
Business
Australian court orders Apple to allow alternative app stores on iPhone
An Australian court ordered Apple to allow iPhone apps from third-party stores and websites from March 1, 2027. Apple says it will appeal the ruling in Epic Games' antitrust case.
AI
Recursive releases Flint, a laptop coding model it says was built mostly by AI
Recursive released Flint, a free, open-source coding model designed to run on laptops. The company says its automated AI research system did most of the development.
AI
Nvidia unveils OpenShell architecture to contain and monitor AI agents
Nvidia unveiled its OpenShell Reference Architecture to contain and monitor autonomous AI agents. Its Sentry framework can quarantine compromised agents within milliseconds without their cooperation.
AI
OpenAI's GPT 6 models to arrive on Google Cloud and Antigravity
OpenAI's frontier models will be offered through Google Cloud and Google's coding tool Antigravity. They will join Gemini and Anthropic's Claude in Google's Model Garden.
AI research
Cross-executing tests and patches improves software testing agents
Researchers at Recursive and Salesforce Research had AI agents run every generated test against every code patch. Their TEX framework reached 86.4% success on SWT-Bench Verified, nine percentage points above a single-agent baseline.
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