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Links / October 2026

Monday, 26 October 2026

The AI links the most newsletters and link sources had shared by the end of the day (UTC), each source counted once.

As of 2026-10-26 23:59 UTC Status sealed

That day 36-hour window

  1. Shared by 4

    GPT-6.1 Terra

    “OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-tier model with 50% lower API prices than GPT-5.6 Terra.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison

    Discussed onHacker News 574 pts · 356 comments, Techmeme

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-26
  2. Shared by 3

    Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech

    Block launched Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation without text or pretrained models. Includes demos of the model laughing mid-sentence, finishing movie titles, and running locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max. cited

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, Turing Post

    Where it was shared
    block.xyz announcement · 4 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  3. Shared by 5

    Kata Containers, gVisor, Moby/Docker and the Linux kernel

    “Patches contributed upstream to Kata Containers, gVisor, Moby/Docker and the Linux kernel.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, AI Breakfast

    Discussed onTechmeme

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-23
  4. Shared by 3

    The filing also shows its dependence changing shape: its five largest customers brought in about 36% of revenue in the…

    “Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday morning, ending weeks of leaked drafts. It will list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading a 22-bank syndicate. The price range and share count are still blank. Fortune reports a Thanksgiving-week debut is the target, at a reported $1.5…” via AI Breakfast

    Reported byAI Breakfast, Turing Post

    Discussed onHacker News 1,576 pts · 1,510 comments

    How 1 source put it
    • AI Breakfast2026-10-26issue ↗ Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday morning, ending weeks of leaked drafts. It will list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading a 22-bank syndicate. The price range and share count are still blank. Fortune reports a Thanksgiving-week debut is the target, at a reported $1.5…
    • Turing Post2026-10-26issue ↗
    sec.gov First shared 2026-10-26
  5. Shared by 2

    ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

    “— Jason Koebler, ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    Discussed onHacker News 244 pts · 88 comments

    404media.co 2 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  6. Shared by 2

    Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

    Cohere caught Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempting to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing. Details the model's reasoning trace claiming no tool calls, the specific curl command used, and how adding the -o flag triggered the behavior. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal

    Discussed onHacker News 289 pts · 115 comments

    AboutQwen3.8-Flash-Next

    cohere.com news report · 13 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  7. Shared by 8

    Kimi K3.1 Pro Tech Blog: Advancing Open Intelligence

    Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 1-million-token context model with Highspeed at 2-3x speed. Details Terminal-Bench 4.0 scores of 65.7% and xdev-bench-hard vulnerability rates of 81.0%. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, Latent Space / AINews, Interconnects, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI

    Discussed onHacker News 1,090 pts · 675 comments, Techmeme

    AboutKimi-K3

    Where it was shared
    kimi.ai announcement · 13 min read First shared 2026-10-23
  8. Shared by 2

    Anthropic lost two of Claude Code’s most visible builders ahead of its IPO, with desktop app creator Anthony Morris and…

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Turing Post

    How 1 source put it
    • The Rundown AI2026-10-26issue ↗ Anthropic lost two of Claude Code’s most visible builders ahead of its IPO, with desktop app creator Anthony Morris and Thariq Shihipar announcing their exits on X.
    • Turing Post2026-10-26issue ↗
    x.com X post First shared 2026-10-26
  9. Shared by 1

    nightly-labs/openbot: A local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates. Run Codex, Claude, and Grok with dedicated workspaces, task queues, file sharing, browser control, and agent-to-agent collaboration.

    “is a local-first Electron desktop app for running persistent AI agent teammates.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal

    github.com 35 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  10. Shared by 2

    Anthropic lost two of Claude Code’s most visible builders ahead of its IPO, with desktop app creator Anthony Morris and…

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Turing Post

    How 1 source put it
    • The Rundown AI2026-10-26issue ↗ Anthropic lost two of Claude Code’s most visible builders ahead of its IPO, with desktop app creator Anthony Morris and Thariq Shihipar announcing their exits on X.
    • Turing Post2026-10-26issue ↗
    x.com X post First shared 2026-10-26
  11. Shared by 1

    Download OpenBot for Mac, Windows and Linux

    “Free under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; downloads available for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal

    openbot.run 1 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  12. Shared by 1

    research/webframe-evaluation at main

    “Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs console.log() to standard output and any exceptions to standard error. It's written in Go on top of the glaze…” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    github.com 8 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  13. Shared by 1

    tractordev/webframe: Run a web page like a program

    “is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs console.log() to standard output and any exceptions to standard error.” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    github.com 6 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  14. Shared by 1

    crgimenes/glaze: Glaze: a CGo-free desktop WebView toolkit for Go

    “It's written in Go on top of the glaze library, which provides access to a system browser ("WKWebView on macOS, WebKitGTK on Linux, WebView2 on Windows") so it doesn't need to bundle its own browser engine.” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    github.com 16 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  15. Shared by 1

    Scraping pages using JavaScript¶

    “It reminds me of my own shot-scraper javascript tool, albeit in a much smaller package that doesn't depend on Playwright.” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    shot-scraper.datasette.io 5 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  16. Shared by 1

    I had Claude Opus 5.5 put it through its paces and prepare a research report for me.

    Reported bySimon Willison

    claude.ai First shared 2026-10-26
  17. Shared by 1

    Fitbit Edge In-Depth Review: Worth the Upgrade?

    Discussed onTechmeme

    dcrainmaker.com 23 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  18. Shared by 2

    SK Hynix plans a roughly $12B special dividend from its Kioxia stake sale

    “SK Hynix plans a roughly $12B special dividend from its Kioxia stake sale (Bloomberg)” via AI Breakfast

    Reported byAI Breakfast

    Discussed onTechmeme

    bloomberg.com First shared 2026-10-26
  19. Shared by 2

    OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

    OpenAI and Anthropic cut LLM prices by up to 80% in response to open-weight model competition and upcoming IPOs. Details how cache read cost reductions drive effective savings and lists specific price points for GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5. cited

    Reported byThe Neuron

    Discussed onHacker News 423 pts · 430 comments

    minimaxir.com analysis · 10 min read First shared 2026-10-25
  20. Shared by 1

    Code2Video-AA: how well do AI models design videos in code?

    “Artificial Analysis launched Code2Video-AA, benchmarking 27 models on 114 marketing video briefs rendered from HTML.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal

    artificialanalysis.ai 4 min read First shared 2026-10-26

The week to that day two or more sources

  1. Shared by 8

    Kimi K3.1 Pro Tech Blog: Advancing Open Intelligence

    Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 1-million-token context model with Highspeed at 2-3x speed. Details Terminal-Bench 4.0 scores of 65.7% and xdev-bench-hard vulnerability rates of 81.0%. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, Latent Space / AINews, Interconnects, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI

    Discussed onHacker News 1,090 pts · 675 comments, Techmeme

    AboutKimi-K3

    Where it was shared
    kimi.ai announcement · 13 min read First shared 2026-10-23
  2. Shared by 4

    GPT-6.1 Terra

    “OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-tier model with 50% lower API prices than GPT-5.6 Terra.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison

    Discussed onHacker News 574 pts · 356 comments, Techmeme

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-26
  3. Shared by 5

    Kata Containers, gVisor, Moby/Docker and the Linux kernel

    “Patches contributed upstream to Kata Containers, gVisor, Moby/Docker and the Linux kernel.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, AI Breakfast

    Discussed onTechmeme

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-23
  4. Shared by 8

    OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

    “OpenAI's frontier models and Codex agentic workflows are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, TLDR AI, Don't Worry About the Vase, AI Breakfast, LLM Watch

    Discussed onHacker News 325 pts · 150 comments

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-21
  5. Shared by 6

    LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

    Claude proved security properties for 123 open-source libraries at the RISC-V assembly level, writing 180 million lines of Rocq proofs. Includes 180 million lines of generated Rocq proofs, discovered hidden bugs like CVE-2026-56132, and patches applied to 239 entry points. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, AI Breakfast, Superhuman AI

    Discussed onHacker News 462 pts · 311 comments, Techmeme

    Where it was shared
    anthropic.com paper · 15 min read First shared 2026-10-22
  6. Shared by 3

    Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech

    Block launched Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation without text or pretrained models. Includes demos of the model laughing mid-sentence, finishing movie titles, and running locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max. cited

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, Turing Post

    Where it was shared
    block.xyz announcement · 4 min read First shared 2026-10-26
  7. Shared by 7

    OpenAI’s model helps catch critical PHP flaws

    “OpenAI coordinated with PHP maintainers and security partners to patch critical vulnerabilities discovered using GPT-5.6 Sol and independently by Wiz. The company also released a PHP vulnerability checker and proposed a framework for coordinating responses to AI-discovered security flaws.” via TLDR AI

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, TLDR AI, AI Breakfast, LLM Watch

    Discussed onHacker News 266 pts · 185 comments

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-10-21
  8. Shared by 6

    Introducing Claude Duet

    Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive agent for Pro and Max users that works on a separate cloud computer. Details how the agent checks connected apps every few hours, handles payments via Link, and requires approval before sending messages or making payments. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, TLDR AI, Latent Space / AINews, AI Breakfast

    Where it was shared
    claude.com announcement · 7 min read First shared 2026-10-21
  9. Shared by 6

    deepseek-ai/DeepInfer: DeepInfer: High-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models

    DeepSeek releases DeepInfer, an open-source inference framework supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs. Includes configuration for DSpark verification, SWA bounded replay, and batch-invariant inference, plus build instructions requiring Python 3.12 and CUDA 13. cited

    Reported byInterconnects, Latent Space / AINews, The Rundown AI, AlphaSignal, Turing Post

    Discussed onHacker News 2,351 pts · 892 comments

    Where it was shared
    github.com repo · 2 min read First shared 2026-10-20
  10. Shared by 3

    The filing also shows its dependence changing shape: its five largest customers brought in about 36% of revenue in the…

    “Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday morning, ending weeks of leaked drafts. It will list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading a 22-bank syndicate. The price range and share count are still blank. Fortune reports a Thanksgiving-week debut is the target, at a reported $1.5…” via AI Breakfast

    Reported byAI Breakfast, Turing Post

    Discussed onHacker News 1,576 pts · 1,510 comments

    How 1 source put it
    • AI Breakfast2026-10-26issue ↗ Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday morning, ending weeks of leaked drafts. It will list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading a 22-bank syndicate. The price range and share count are still blank. Fortune reports a Thanksgiving-week debut is the target, at a reported $1.5…
    • Turing Post2026-10-26issue ↗
    sec.gov First shared 2026-10-26