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OpenAI says two of its own coding agents weakened the monitoring meant to catch them. • A GPT-6.1 Sol agent disabled alerts to OpenAI's security team • A GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor, then said it hadn't • OpenAI now blocks attempts to disable monitoring
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Source: OpenAI misalignment report, updated Oct 20 alignment.openai.com/misalig…
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Tesla says Optimus production has started on Fremont's high-volume lines, its first production-quality bots. Also in Q3: 1.74M active FSD subscriptions (up 67%), its 10 millionth vehicle, and Cybercab added to the Austin Robotaxi fleet. assets-ir.tesla.com/tesla-co…
Q3 Shareholder Update → ir.tesla.com Highlights – FSD Supervised attach rate grew to over 75% of new vehicle deliveries in NA – Unveiled the next-gen Roadster – Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan & Taiwan – Tesla Semi now in volume production. Top variant can go up to 500 miles at a full 82,000 lbs while achieving efficiency of 1.7 kWh/mile – about a third of the energy a comparable diesel truck burns for the same load – Ended the quarter with the largest backlog for our passenger vehicles in 4 years! FSD Supervised – 4 new approvals since Q2 (Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia) – FSD is now live in nine EU countries & used by over 100,000 customers logging more than 160 million kilometers since initial approval Robotaxi – Deployed Cybercab into our Austin fleet – Hit nearly 2 million cumulative unsupervised miles, 8x growth in the quarter – Austin service now runs 6 am to midnight, with wait times continuing to come down as we add cars & improve the orchestration algorithms – Added Grok to Cybercab with Grok Bot & Connectors, letting you interface with your inbox, calendar, files, chats and tasks, all by voice. Transport, office & living room in one Robotics – Started production of @Tesla_Optimus on our high-volume lines in Fremont. These are the first production-quality bots we've built, proving that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product SI Compute – On track for 400 MW of training compute by year end, feeding both vehicle & humanoid autonomy – Austin Fab construction continues, equipment commissioning planned for 2027 Battery – Battery supply is still the limiter on how fast we ramp vehicles globally, so we're expanding on every front: pack capacity in Berlin, cathode and lithium refining in Texas, LFP cells in Nevada – Shipped the first Megapacks built entirely with our own LFP cells – Increasing 4680 output to support ramp of Cybercab, Semi & Model Y Energy – Megafactory Texas is up & running, with Megapack 3 production started – Highest-ever order rate & backlog for energy storage Grid constraints & power availability are making Megapack the answer for SI infrastructure demand: it excels at supplying large data center loads, smooths out demand spikes, helps new projects meet grid connection rules & makes the grid itself more stable All with less local fossil fuel generation Supporting Infrastructure – Added 2,100+ net new Supercharger stalls, up 14% year over year
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GitLab patched a 10.0-severity bug that lets attackers run code on self-managed servers with no login. • Every version since 7.0 (2014) is affected • Fix: 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10 or 18.11.13 • Already patched Oct 12? You still need this one
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Source: GitLab patch release 19.5.1, Oct 21 docs.gitlab.com/releases/pat…
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If you installed litellm 1.107.0 yesterday, treat your credentials as exposed. The PyPI release and Docker tags (v1.107.0, latest, main-latest, main-stable) shipped a credential stealer and a backdoor. LiteLLM says pin 1.106.2 and rotate credentials.
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Nvidia is now selling AI data centers in shipping containers. DSX POD units come factory-built with Vera Rubin, and Nvidia says they deploy in as little as 14 days instead of about 6 months. Deliveries start early 2027.
AI builders need computing capacity they can put to work sooner. We introduced DSX POD at NVIDIA GTC Berlin: AI factories integrated and tested before delivery, enabling deployment at prepared sites in as little as 14 days.
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Railway says an attacker got into the systems that store customer env vars, and some were decrypted. • Env vars can hold API keys and database credentials • All deployments were paused • Railway's advice: rotate every env var and registry credential
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Two critical PHP flaws, found with AI's help: • Attackers with no login could run code on PHP servers in some setups • Severity 9.2 (not the 10.0 going around) • Fixed in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35 • Calif found one with GPT-5.6 Sol; Wiz found both independently
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Recursive's Flint is a free coding model that runs on a laptop, and the company says AI built most of it. 40B parameters, 2.5B active. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. About 131 tokens/sec on an M4 Pro in Recursive's tests. techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/re…
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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Patch now: Node.js fixed a high-severity Brotli bug that can allow remote code execution (CVE-2026-111497). Affects 22.x, 24.x and 26.x. Update to 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1. The same release fixes 9 other vulnerabilities.
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NEW: Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an agent that keeps working when you step away and messages you only when something needs you. It asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything. Waitlist preview for US Pro and Max users.
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