Today's sample — 2026-10-30
6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.
A suspected Chinese spy got close to Nvidia's CEO
The New York Times says intelligence agencies tracked a Megaspeed executive's ties to Jensen Huang for about a year, and the Trump White House sat on the briefing.
EMBRACE bug hits Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code, Claude
Forever Security's Gal Weizman found one design flaw across five AI coding tools' embedded browsers; Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop still have no fix as of October 29, 2026.
Mistral ships open weights for its trillion-parameter model
Mistral released open weights for Large 4 'Le Chonk' on October 29, a 1-trillion-parameter model that edges GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on coding and cyber-defense benchmarks.
OpenAI opens election war room ahead of Nov. 3 midterms
OpenAI stood up an Election Operations Center on Oct. 28, six days before the midterms, while independent tests show ChatGPT itself botches candidate questions.
Signals: an image-model leak, a world model, an open transcriber
An API-spec leak points to GPT Image 2.6, Tencent open-sources a persistent video world model, Nvidia ships a 30B open transcriber, and Google/XREAL launch Gemini-powered AR glasses.
GitHub agents now start 40% of all pull requests
GitHub's Octoverse report says agent-drafted pull requests more than doubled in six months, the same day Copilot Fusion shipped to route tasks across models instead of picking just one.
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