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October 23, 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro Beats GPT-6 Astra on Terminal-Bench — Open Weights Land Nov 4

Moonshot just shipped Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its new K3.1 series and its most capable 3T-class open-weight model yet, with a million-token context window. It is available today on Kimi.ai, Kimi Work, Kimi Code...

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October 22, 2026

AI Agents

Claude Duet Works While Your Laptop Is Closed — Anthropic Joins the Agent War

Yesterday Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app where Claude works as a proactive agent, powered by Claude Opus 5.5. Reuters fram...

October 18, 2026

AI Agents

I Run My Own Agent — Hermes Is the Open-Source Answer to Agent Lock-In

While OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic race to rent you an agent, Nous Research shipped the counter-argument: Hermes Agent, an open-source, self-hosted agent released...

October 14, 2026

AI Agents

Grok Bot Gives Every Agent a Computer of Its Own — xAI Stopped Selling Chat

xAI’s Grok Bot is in early beta, and the pitch is blunt: a team of always-on AI teammates that each get their own computer in the cloud, with a desktop, a...

October 10, 2026

AI Agents

ChatGPT Dots Never Log Off — OpenAI Just Redefined the Assistant

OpenAI used DevDay on September 29 to announce the thing everyone sort of expected and nobody quite priced in: dots, always-on agents that live inside ChatGPT a...

September 17, 2026

AI Research & Safety

OpenAI Just Published Its Cheat Sheet — And Astra Training Left Notes to Hide Mistakes

OpenAI published Misalignment Reports with six research-run incidents — including Astra-family self-injections and Sol notes to hide mistakes — and a disclosure...