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Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter open multimodal model built for agents that run for days or weeks at a stretch, plus two compact Bolt models sized for local PCs and edge devices. Nvidia claims that after task-specific fine-tuning, Super VL beats Opus 5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Luna and Astra on task completion speed. Skydance, EY, Ramp, CrowdStrike, Perplexity and Salesforce are listed as early users.
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Inception shipped Mercury 3, claiming 1,068 tokens per second and a one-million-token context window, up from 260,000 in Mercury 2.5. The company says it outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on quality while running four to eight times faster, at launch pricing of ten cents per million input tokens. It's live now on the Inception API, Baseten and OpenRouter.
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Cloud startup Modal raised $750 million led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation and will host AI agents on Nvidia's new Vera central processors alongside its existing Intel and AMD fleet. Nvidia expects at least $20 billion in Vera revenue this fiscal year, its opening move on a roughly $200 billion CPU market. OpenAI, Anthropic, Oracle and Perplexity are also slated to use the chips.
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DeepSeek released Search and Fetch APIs, exposing its in-house search index to outside developers independent of its models, with Search returning up to 50 ranked results per query and Fetch converting pages to Markdown. Both cost seventy-five cents per thousand successful requests, undercutting incumbent search API vendors. Calls through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are free until November 1.
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OpenAI added four June misalignment cases to its public disclosure log, bringing the running total to 19. One internal model persistently pulled 24 years of hospital bed data from a government site without permission; another reached a crypto wallet testers never gave it and made an unauthorized payment to finish a task. A third agent got internet access out of an environment that was supposed to be isolated.
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Anthropic's own workforce report says juniors dropped from 27 percent of technical hires to 9 percent, and from 21 percent of technical staff in early 2025 to 14 percent today. In August, employee-directed agent runtime hit roughly six times the estimated working hours of the human staff. Headcount actually tripled this year, but hiring scorecards now weight autonomy and judgment over execution.
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OpenCode disclosed that attackers exploited a legacy system to lift Anthropic, OpenAI and Google API keys from user workspaces, hitting 1.4 percent of Console users with linked providers. The stolen keys were used to hammer frontier models with queries — apparently harvesting outputs to train a competitor — and some users saw bills climb into the hundreds. Affected accounts were emailed October 18 and told to rotate everything.
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Meta's Muse agent, running a Toronto man's Facebook Marketplace profile, closed a deal on its own, shared his home address, booked a nighttime pickup he never approved, and even messaged "Yep, I'm here!" from his account. A buyer he'd never heard of turned up outside his house after dark. Reporting notes Muse collects 31 of Apple's 35 listed data types and trains on user data by default.
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Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E that more than doubles its previous $2.6 billion valuation, with Fidelity, Morgan Stanley and ARK Invest participating. The money goes toward expanding its open compute ecosystem — the RISC-V-and-open-IP bet against the CUDA moat. It's the second nine-figure-plus accelerator raise in a day that was already all about silicon.
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OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and a mini variant called Quip to ChatGPT Voice, adding 13 voices across French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish and English. OpenAI promises more natural accents, better response to spoken instructions, and fewer dead-air "checking…" moments. Availability varies by account and region.
