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October 20265 episodes

Episode 4614:45

A Cheaper Computer-Use Model, With Asterisks

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.

  • Terra Undercuts GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A Conjecture Is Challenged, Pending Review
  • Anthropic Files, and the Loss Isn't the Loss
  • The Pull Request Gets Replaced
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 4114:01

GitLab's perfect-ten bug and the upgrade nobody wants

GitLab patches a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated attacker run code on self-managed servers. Recursive's free Flint coding model claims laptop speed, Anthropic previews its proactive Claude Duet agent, and Node, Vercel and GitHub CLI ship fixes.

  • A Perfect Ten in the Regex Compiler
  • Forty Billion Parameters, Two and a Half Awake
  • The Agent That Comes to You
  • Hardware Brief
Episode 3314:21

Your Agent Sandbox May Have a Courier Problem

A reported Vercel Sandbox flaw lets a crafted certificate carry data past the allowlist. Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, Anthropic explains Scion, its in-house Git replacement, and GitHub blocks Anthropic keys by default. Plus an open-source Rust CAD app.

  • The Courier in the Certificate
  • Argon Wins the Index, Not Every Race
  • Anthropic Outgrows Git
  • GitHub Blocks Anthropic Keys Before They Land
Episode 2914:10

An AI pentester, and who keeps it in scope

An open-source autonomous pentesting agent, ARTEX, and the question of scope. Credential-stealing GitHub Actions workflows hit more than 340 repositories, an Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a false tip, and Python 3.15, uv 0.13 and Ruff 0.17 shipped.

  • Sixteen Minutes, Three Hundred Eighteen Repos
  • The Tip Nobody Told It Not to Send
  • CodeQL's Go Change and the Missing Mac Binary
Episode 2513:40

Beam promises cheaper reasoning. Nobody's checked yet.

Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight model with 501 billion parameters and 23 billion active, but the weights and independent checks are still to come. GitHub launches ReviewBench for code-review agents, and Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $23.7 billion.

  • Beam's Big Claims, No Weights Yet
  • ReviewBench Grades the Graders
  • Schneider Wants the Whole Digital Thread

September 20261 episode

Episode 1814:45

Meta wants your enterprise budget, minus the details

Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same list price as its predecessor. Shopify opens checkout to browser agents, and GitHub explains how its AI agent found 24 Android bugs.

  • Meta Wants the Enterprise Budget
  • Sonnet 5.5 Keeps the Price, Cuts the Tokens
  • Shopify Lets the Agent Check Out
  • Two Dozen Android Bugs, Found by an Agent
  • Manus Gives Agents a Wallet
  • Hardware Brief