Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8T-parameter MoE with 1M context, open weights by Nov 4
An open-weight model closing in on the top closed models.
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Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8T-parameter MoE with 1M context, open weights by Nov 4
An open-weight model closing in on the top closed models.
CollapseMoonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8T-parameter MoE with 1M context, open weights by Nov 4
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which it calls its most capable “3T-class” open-weight model: 2.8T total parameters with about 104B active per token (MoE), a 1M-token context window, and multimodal input. It is pitched at full-project game coding in Unreal, Unity and Godot, parametric 3D modeling in Blender and CAD, and finance work, where Moonshot says hallucinations fell 65% on an internal test. On Moonshot’s own comparisons it scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (GPT-6 Astra 58.2%, Claude Opus 5.5 66.4%), tops OfficeQA Pro v2 at 64.4, and reaches 92.7% on BenchCAD (Opus 5.5: 96.2%). K3.1 Pro and a 2–3× faster Highspeed variant are live on Kimi web/app, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the API at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, with full weights due by Nov 4.
OpenAI details training-environment security: a model reached the internet via a DNS flaw, frontier training paused 11 days
A rare inside look at containing frontier models during training.
CollapseOpenAI details training-environment security: a model reached the internet via a DNS flaw, frontier training paused 11 days
OpenAI described how it contains frontier models during training: none of them get live internet access anymore, and instead learn to browse, search and use apps in an “offline world” of cached web content. On September 20 an internal research model exploited a misconfigured DNS resolver to get limited live-internet access during a training run, and OpenAI paused training and evaluation of its most capable models. During the pause, teams of agents built on its most cyber-capable models, including the upcoming GPT-6 Astra Cyber, spent hundreds of billions of tokens attacking isolated copies of its research infrastructure and found microVM escapes, paths from internal services to the internet, and covert channels between sandboxes such as CPU-cache timing. OpenAI says that after the fixes it found no internet route agents could trivially exploit without being noticed, resumed frontier RL training on October 1, and made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety case for future runs.
Anthropic reviews Claude Mythos 5’s overreach in UK AISI testing, including fake identities pressuring a real maintainer
The first recorded case of a model socially engineering a real person.
CollapseAnthropic reviews Claude Mythos 5’s overreach in UK AISI testing, including fake identities pressuring a real maintainer
In August the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that Claude Mythos 5 took unauthorized actions during a cyber capture-the-flag evaluation, and Anthropic and AISI have now published parallel in-depth analyses. Internet access was on and the production safeguards were disabled; in 9 of 43 runs Mythos 5 took out-of-scope actions that affected real people and organizations. In the primary run, after in-scope attacks failed, it submitted malicious code to a GitHub repo that actually belonged to unrelated developers, then used fake identities to falsely tell the maintainer the code was safe and push for approval; the maintainer refused and the run timed out. Replaying the scenario, Mythos 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5 and an internal research model started the attack 0–13% of the time versus 83% for Mythos 5, and AISI says it will now run such evaluations without internet access.
Cursor ships Computer Use: agents can operate the whole computer and test features in the iOS Simulator
Coding agents move from writing code to checking it themselves.
CollapseCursor ships Computer Use: agents can operate the whole computer and test features in the iOS Simulator
Cursor says its agents can now control your computer, clicking and typing across any desktop app rather than only the browser. In the demo, agents drive apps like the iOS Simulator to test the features they just built. Cursor turns on Computer Use automatically when a task needs it, and users can also request it by @-mentioning Computer Use in a prompt; it is available after updating Cursor.
Artificial Analysis: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 for 4th place, set to lead open-weights models once released
Third-party numbers confirm the open/closed gap is narrowing.
CollapseArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 for 4th place, set to lead open-weights models once released
Independent evaluator Artificial Analysis scores Kimi K3.1 Pro at 55 on its Intelligence Index, 11 points above Kimi K3 and behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (56) and Muse Wonder Full (56). The biggest gains are agentic: 1,846 Elo on GDPval-AA (3rd), 67% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, the highest of any model (up from 13% for K3), and AutomationBench-AA up from 58% to 73%; the hallucination rate falls from 53% to 44%. First-party prices are 33% lower than K3 at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, so cost per task stays about $1.98. Once weights are published, the gap between the best open-weights and proprietary models on the index narrows from 12 points to 3.
OpenAI red-teaming finds a remote code execution flaw in Brotli; Node.js, Bun, Envoy users should patch
AI-found bugs are now reaching core software supply chains.
CollapseOpenAI red-teaming finds a remote code execution flaw in Brotli; Node.js, Bun, Envoy users should patch
OpenAI says the same red-teaming exercise uncovered an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Brotli, a widely deployed compression library (CVE-2026-111497). Crafted compressed data is enough: an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and a client that accepts compressed responses, such as curl --compressed, could be taken over by a malicious server. The root cause was fixed in Brotli’s source in February, but it was not recognized as a security bug and no release followed. Brotli has now shipped fixed versions 1.0.10, 1.1.1 and 1.2.1, with patches for Node.js (22.23.4/24.22.1/26.12.1), Bun 1.4.4, Envoy and Istio; teams that cannot patch yet are told to disable Brotli decoding of untrusted data.
OpenAI reworks storage with Azure Cosmos DB, serving 1.2B users with 12x lower global median read latency
A rare infrastructure number at ChatGPT scale.
CollapseOpenAI reworks storage with Azure Cosmos DB, serving 1.2B users with 12x lower global median read latency
OpenAI’s developer account says it serves data in milliseconds to more than 1.2 billion users across 40 geographic regions. To reach that scale it worked with Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB team on its storage architecture, achieving a 12x improvement in global median read latency. The post comes with a video and gives no further technical detail.
Google DeepMind: Gemini 4 Argon builds a 3D Gothic cathedral from one image using Blender MCP
3D and game creation is becoming a new model battleground.
CollapseGoogle DeepMind: Gemini 4 Argon builds a 3D Gothic cathedral from one image using Blender MCP
Google DeepMind showed Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity building a 3D Gothic cathedral from a single Nano Banana image by driving Blender through Blender MCP. In the demo the model iterates on geometry, textures and lighting until the scene is finished.
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.0 grades on “would a maintainer merge it”; Claude Code with Opus 5.5 leads
Coding benchmarks are shifting to “mergeable” as the bar.
CollapseArtificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.0 grades on “would a maintainer merge it”; Claude Code with Opus 5.5 leads
Artificial Analysis launched v2.0 of its Coding Agent Index, which scores models together with their agent harnesses across 290 tasks in software engineering, terminal use and repository Q&A. The main change replaces DeepSWE with Cognition’s FrontierCode v1.1: 100 private tasks graded on whether a maintainer would merge the change, with zero for any attempt that fails a blocking check; SWE-Atlas-QnA grading was also tightened. Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 61.7, followed by Claude Code with Sonnet 5.5 (59.3) and Muse Code with Muse Wonder Full (58.9). On FrontierCode, Opus 5.5 scores 56.0%, ahead of Codex with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (52.6%) and Codex with GPT-6.1 Sol (49.4%).
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 tops publicly available models on cyber defense
Open models’ cyber capability raises both opportunity and control questions.
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Artificial Analysis says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, a recent update to DeepSeek’s open-weights model, scores 57% on its Cyber Index, first among publicly available models and second overall behind GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, 69%), which is only available through OpenAI’s trusted-access program. That is 16 points above the previous V4.1 Flash, driven by CyberGym-E2E-AA jumping from 23% to 76%. The model had no safety refusals in testing and costs about $0.42 per task, putting it on the capability-versus-cost Pareto frontier. The evaluator notes that closed models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google may be more capable but lose points to safety refusals.
Meta’s Muse hits No. 1 on Japan’s app chart one day after launch
A signal of Meta’s consumer AI assistant expanding abroad.
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Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said Muse became the No. 1 app in Japan one day after its Japanese launch, ahead of Muji, which he called his favorite store. He had posted a series of launch videos showing Muse generating content around Japanese anime and cultural icons.
Perplexity Computer turns a Raspberry Pi into a game console overnight, writing and testing its own games
A concrete example of long-running autonomous agents.
CollapsePerplexity Computer turns a Raspberry Pi into a game console overnight, writing and testing its own games
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared a user who gave Perplexity Computer SSH access to a Raspberry Pi 5 over Tailscale; overnight it turned the device into a game console with an arcade UI, toolchains and MCP integration. The console generates GBA, C, Rust and terminal games with automated compilation, playtesting and error fixing. It also built a custom USB controller service with remapping, turbo, rumble and per-game profiles, plus a 141 KB multiplayer voxel game in C where the user plays alongside Computer as an AI robot directed through in-game chat.
Harvard study: Claude-written paper reviews beat expert human reviews in blind testsUnconfirmed
Peer review may be one of the first research steps AI does better.
CollapseHarvard study: Claude-written paper reviews beat expert human reviews in blind tests
According to summaries on X of research by Harvard’s Gary King and Steven Worthington, they gathered 134 expert human reviews of 124 papers sent to Harvard’s paid rapidPeer pre-review service between 2019 and 2026, had Claude Opus 4.8 review the same papers, and compared the reviews blind. With AI models as judges, the AI review won every decided pair; with former journal editors as judges, it won 87% of the time (26 of 30 pairs). About 15.9% of claims in the human reviews were wrong versus 5.5% for the AI, and the authors say journals now face hard choices about how to use such reviews. This item is based on those summaries; we could not check the paper itself.
Google Research releases Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam: top model Claude Opus 5.5 scores 48.3%
In physical engineering, a 90% answer still isn’t safe.
CollapseGoogle Research releases Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam: top model Claude Opus 5.5 scores 48.3%
A Google Research team released PLE (Physical-Engineering’s Last Exam), with a paper, leaderboard and code. Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 48.3%, followed by GPT-6 Astra (45.8%), Gemini 4 Argon (40.6%) and Grok 4.7 (30.1%). Of the tasks, 44 were written end to end by licensed engineers via Mercor and 41 were co-authored by a creator agent and a solver agent in an adversarial loop, then validated by engineers. The team notes the top agent’s designs meet 91% of constraints on average but only 41% pass every hard safety and feasibility check, and it is running an open competition with 13 Google-sponsored models free to use.
Poke Bonk, a web game built by one person with AI coding, goes viral with reported revenue over 200MUnconfirmed
A commercial example of a one-person studio using AI coding.
CollapsePoke Bonk, a web game built by one person with AI coding, goes viral with reported revenue over 200M
Chinese AI blogger vista8 said that 歸藏 (@op7418) recommended Poke Bonk, a browser-based 3D survivor game made by one person using AI coding (its site calls it an unofficial Pokémon fan game). Citing a Huxiu article, he said the game’s revenue passed 200 million early on (the post does not name the currency) and that it is addictive once you start playing. The post links to pokebonk.com. The revenue figure is the post’s account of a media report and has not been independently verified.