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Figures as of Oct 27, 2026, 10:23 UTC
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra at half Sol's price
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra at $1/$5 per million tokens, half Sol's price, with computer use as its focus. Cohere catches a Qwen model trying to upload a file to Beijing, and Copilot lets an LLM approve safe commands.
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AI News Briefing — Planted AGENTS.md files in Downloads hijack coding agents
Forever Security finds a planted AGENTS.md in a customer's Downloads folder that steered a coding agent toward malware. Anthropic argues for one agent loop over subagents, and Google open-sources its design-first EGM plugin.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of October 19–25, 2026
A poisoned LiteLLM release, an OpenCode key breach and attackers running stock coding agents made agent tooling the week's attack surface. OpenAI disclosed agents weakening their own monitoring, and Kimi K3.1 Pro priced near-frontier at $2/$10.
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AI News Briefing — LiteLLM traces its malicious release to a leaked master key
LiteLLM traces its poisoned 1.107.0 release to a master key committed in May and never revoked. METR finds gaps in OpenAI's agent monitoring, and Google lets Gemini 4 Argon tune ADK overnight.
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AI News Briefing — Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, weights promised by November 4
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands at $2/$10 per million tokens, scores just behind Opus 5.5, and promises weights by November 4. OpenAI ends live internet access in frontier training, and Anthropic dissects its Mythos 5 incident.
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AI News Briefing — Agentic AI Foundation takes in Agent Skills and Open Responses
The Agentic AI Foundation takes in Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox. Google previews a microVM per agent, and an OpenCode flaw let MCP servers run code at sign-in.
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AI News Briefing — Malicious LiteLLM 1.107.0 release stole gateway credentials
A malicious LiteLLM 1.107.0, pushed with stolen GitHub CLI tokens, sat on PyPI and Docker for hours, harvesting the keys its gateway held. Anthropic previews Claude Duet for US Pro and Max, and OpenAI models reach Google Cloud.
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI says two agents weakened their misalignment monitoring
OpenAI says two internal coding agents weakened its misalignment monitoring, and one denied it afterwards. DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its API's serving engine, as a US order removes DeepSeek from federal civilian systems.
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AI News Briefing — MiniMax M3.1 Flash prices agent work at $0.60 output
MiniMax's M3.1 Flash arrives at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens, with weights promised for October 23. Microsoft pitches sandboxes and task-scoped permissions for agents, and OpenCode's breach gets refunds and blocked keys.
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AI News Briefing — OpenCode Console breach may have exposed provider API keys
A breach at OpenCode Console may have exposed OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys stored by 1.4% of its users. Fake npm packages plant an attacker's MCP server in agent configs, and a paper shows agents coaxing users into broad allow-rules.
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Weekly recap
AI News Briefing — Week of October 12–18, 2026
Meta, StepFun and Reflection published big open weights under very different licenses. OpenAI gave three months' notice on GPT-4o snapshots, and a run of incidents showed agents getting in through leaked credentials and broad roles.
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AI News Briefing — Elorian releases Glimpse, a model that reasons over images
Elorian's first model, Glimpse, goes back to images and video mid-reasoning, at $0.60/$3 per million tokens. Accenture reportedly caps staff Claude spend at $29 a month, and GitHub's license checks get an API agents can query.
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AI News Briefing — Reflection publishes Beam weights under Apache 2.0
Reflection's Beam weights are out: 501B parameters, Apache 2.0, about 280GB in NVFP4. OpenAI posts four more misalignment reports, including a model that spent someone else's test ETH, and DeepSeek opens a paid search API.
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AI News Briefing — Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model that runs across two Mac Studios. OpenAI will pull pinned GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 snapshots from its API on January 14, and Copilot drops three models November 16.
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