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OPENAI PULLS ITS MODELS OUT OF CURSOR. THE POPULAR AI CODING TOOL LOSES GPT ACCESS ON NOVEMBER 12, WEEKS AFTER ELON MUSK'S SPACEX BOUGHT IT FOR $60 BILLION. YOUR OWN OPENAI API KEY STILL WORKS INSIDE CURSOR
★ Must-Read / Watch agentic engineering / build-better-agents📚 Learn state of AI coding / useful technique

⚡ AI Frontier · smol.ai

★ Must-ReadTencent released Hy4 Preview, a 770B open-weight model with a 1 million token context window
Only 49B parameters fire per token, so it runs cheaper than its size suggests. The weights are on Hugging Face (1.56TB), and the chat template has a switch to turn deep reasoning on or off. China's open-weight bar keeps rising.
★ Must-ReadMcKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey: 32 percent of companies skipped buying software because AI agents could build it in-house
In tech firms the number is 41 percent, and healthcare is close behind at 39. If you sell software or services, this is the stat to sit with: the build-versus-buy math just changed, and your customers know it.
📚 LearnNIST: AI agents are breaking enterprise identity controls, and old IAM lessons are the fix
Agents handed static API keys or long-lived tokens recreate the exact identity mess IT spent a decade cleaning up. A short, plain read on treating every agent like a user, with its own identity, permissions and audit trail.
Simon Willison untangles ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's confusing but powerful enterprise product
What it includes, what has changed since the July launch, and where the sharp edges are. The clearest map yet of what OpenAI is actually selling to businesses.
AccuKnox launched AgentZ, a zero-trust platform for running AI agents with role-based access and audit trails
Model-agnostic, with sandboxed execution and tool-level permissions built in, and it deploys SaaS, on-prem or fully air-gapped. Aimed at teams that want agents in production without handing them the keys to everything.

📺 Watch · latest videos

📚 LearnIntroducing GPT-5
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📚 Learn🔬 Why Transformers Hit a Wall the Moment Physics Shows Up — Anima Anandkumar, Caltech
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📚 LearnBuilding pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner
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AI Engineer
Agentic Engineering Operating Level: WHERE to FOCUS your AGENTS?
Every engineer is racing UP the stack right now. More leverage, bigger agents, software factories. Here's what engineers are missing: higher is NOT al
IndyDevDan · 1.7K views · 158 likes
Build & Sell Grok Bots (2 Hour Course)
Latest from Nate Herk.
Nate Herk · 40.1K views · 647 likes
The Hidden Flaw of EVERY Coding Agent Now Has a Solution
When companies I work with get bad results from AI coding agents, it's almost never the model's fault. It's that everything they use to check the outp
Cole Medin · 3.1K views · 66 likes
SOTA Generative Media Panel — Dumitru Erhan, Shane Gu & Nicole Brichtova, Google DeepMind
The team took captions from real videos, regenerated the same scenes with their own model, and ran a human eval. People largely preferred the generate
AI Engineer · 7.1K views · 23 likes
Cancel your subscriptions, Ox-Alpha is here! (GLM 5.3 Flash)
Latest from Matthew Berman.
Matthew Berman · 165.3K views · 2.3K likes
★ Must-WatchMagic Manga Girl (:30)
Turn any idea into a finished design with layouts and text using ChatGPT Images.
OpenAI · 35.4K views · 415 likes
★ Must-WatchClaude for Word: Turn a draft into a finished document
See exactly how Claude works inside Microsoft Word. Reading a document, resolving reviewer comments, fact-checking claims, cutting length, and copy ed
Claude / Anthropic · 15.9K views · 264 likes

🗣 Voices & Blogs

★ Must-ReadSimon Willison: a rumor of a bug is now enough for an AI agent to build a working exploit
Coding agents can find and weaponize a security hole within minutes of a patch being discussed in public. Willison argues this breaks how open source handles disclosure. If you run servers, the patch window just got shorter.
Michael Dubakov on malleable software: buy a solid base, let AI write the custom 20 percent
The Fibery founder's answer to the build-versus-buy shift: robust foundations plus AI-written extensions beat both from-scratch builds and rigid off-the-shelf tools. Pairs well with this week's McKinsey numbers.
📚 LearnArmin Ronacher asks who the AI villain actually is: anger, anxiety and agency
The Flask creator on why people are angry at AI, which fears are earned, and where a working person's own agency still lives. A calm read for an anxious moment.
📚 LearnThe Kuleshov group's step-by-step guide to building a diffusion language model
Diffusion LLMs generate text all at once instead of word by word, and labs keep teasing them as the next big speedup. A hands-on walkthrough of how they actually work.
Cut coding agent token use with better tool output
Before an AI coding agent writes a single line of code, it has already spent tokens. For example, on source The post Cut coding agent token use with… · The New Stack

📦 What's Being Built · GitHub

Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT
AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the too · ★187K · Python
ollama/ollama
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. · ★179.8K · Go

🌏 The Wire · Drudge / Breitbart

SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING AND WARNER CHAPPELL SUE ANTHROPIC AND ITS FOUNDERS OVER SONG LYRICS, SEEKING UP TO $150,000 PER WORK
35 publishing entities filed in Northern California on August 28, naming CEO Dario Amodei personally. With tens of thousands of songs claimed, exposure could reach billions. Anthropic says it will defend itself in court.
OPENAI RETIRED THE DALL-E GPT IN CHATGPT ON AUGUST 30; IMAGE MAKING MOVES TO CHATGPT IMAGES, AND SORA 2 SHUTS DOWN SEPTEMBER 24
If you made images with the old DALL-E GPT, download the ones you want to keep. Custom GPTs with image generation keep working.
ANT GROUP LAUNCHES A FINANCE-TUNED LING MODEL AND SAYS THE WEIGHTS GO OPEN SOURCE WITHIN A WEEK
Built for annual reports, financial workbooks and valuation work, from the Alipay company, with a free one-month API trial. Domain-tuned open models are becoming the pattern.
ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI WILL SHARE THE AI STAGE AT TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT IN OCTOBER, PRESENTED BY GOOGLE FOR STARTUPS
The two biggest rivals, one stage, October 13-15 in San Francisco, at an event presented by the third.
A 12TB STEAM 'TERALEAK' SPILLS MORE THAN A DECADE OF LOST PC GAMING HISTORY
Not AI, but the weekend's biggest tech story: unreleased builds and cut content from thousands of games, now loose on the internet.

🤖 Trending Models · Hugging Face

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The BriefOpenAI told Cursor, one of the most popular AI coding tools, that it will cut off its models on November 12. The reason is business, not tech: SpaceX just bought Cursor, and OpenAI says it cannot trust Musk-owned companies to follow its rules. If you code with Cursor you are not stuck, since other models still run there and your own OpenAI key keeps working. The lesson for everyone: any AI tool you rent can lose its engine overnight, so know which model your tools run on and have a fallback.

Level UpThis week, read Cal Paterson's short post on agent memory as a file format. It shows a dead-simple way to give an AI agent a memory: plain Markdown files plus an optional search index, instead of a complex memory service. If you build or run agents, this is a pattern you can copy in an afternoon. Paterson: agent memory as a simple file format, not a service

Caught Up?
  • Claude's desktop app got its own built-in browser. The AI can click, type and fill forms in a sandboxed window.
  • A researcher broke Claude Code's unattended Auto Mode with one poisoned file. Prompt injection is now a practical attack, not a theory.
  • NVIDIA posted a $96.2 billion quarter, up 106 percent in a year. The AI buildout is still speeding up.
  • 116 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, signed a letter warning that AI-powered cyberattacks will surge.
  • OpenAI is cutting Cursor off from its models on November 12, after SpaceX bought the coding tool for $60 billion.