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Anthropic’s Addy Osmani described a fix for Claude Code refusing original game projects, while OpenAI announced new image models and plans to acquire Pierre. Other posts focused on agent efficiency and AI-assisted vulnerability work.
Apple lowered the daily spending limit on AI tools for its engineering teams from $300 to $200 in October, according to Bloomberg. More cuts are in the works, with some allowances falling to $100 per day, and Apple is reportedly weighing a daily limit as low as $25 for staff outside engineering.
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Cat Wu, the product leader behind the success of Anthropic's Claude Code, has left the startup to join rival OpenAI to lead product management for its core products team. The move represents a significant talent poach for OpenAI weeks before Anthropic's planned initial public offering.
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A multibillion-dollar AI partnership collapsed under political pressure while OpenAI shipped a new image model and regulators, investors and scientists all moved. The mix shows AI advancing on business, policy, product and research fronts at the same time.
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Political action committees on both sides of the artificial intelligence regulation debate spent millions of dollars in the 2026 midterm elections, but the outcomes were mixed. Industry-backed groups that poured money into supporting specific candidates saw some of their backed candidates lose, while groups pushing for stronger safeguards also experienced a patchwork of victories and defeats.
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Qualcomm has told investors it expects data center revenue to climb from about $650 million in the first quarter of 2027 to $5 billion by the end of that year and $15 billion by 2029, as it looks to data centers to help boost its bottom line through partnerships with Amazon and Meta amid a roughly 20 percent drop in smartphone sales.
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Vercel is gradually rolling out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) as a defense against information stealer malware, binding a login session to the user's device so a stolen session cookie cannot be reused on another device. The feature, announced by Vercel's CTO Malte Ubl on X, applies to logins at vercel.com, where developers manage projects and deployments.
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Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that deploys multiple agents in parallel workspaces to help software engineers build projects, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch. Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced on the company’s blog that the startup is joining Meta and said it had big plans for the next interface.
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OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane has published an essay urging politicians to address Americans’ anxieties about artificial intelligence ahead of the 2028 presidential election, comparing the technology’s potential to reshape the economy to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and calling for a compelling third path that shares AI’s benefits. The essay drew criticism from Kate Brennan of the AI Now Institute.
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Web hosting provider DreamHost has confirmed that hackers gained access to customer emails, credentials and session tokens during a cyberattack that began in August and went undetected for months, the company disclosed last Thursday after the attack sparked an outage that spanned several days.
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Zyxel has released security updates for a zero-day vulnerability in its GS1900 series network switches after GreyNoise reported that attackers had compromised 996 devices across 48 countries. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-107441, is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the web management interface that allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to execute operating system commands using specially crafted HTTP requests.
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