The week started with releases and ended with a crash: after the Democrats' midterm win, tech stocks dropped sharply and Anthropic's IPO is now in question. Meanwhile, Thinking Machines shipped a strong open model, and OpenAI showed off what its cyber agent can do.
AI
Thinking Machines unveils Inkling 2 Small
Mira Murati's lab introduced a MoE model with 594 billion parameters, of which 17 billion are active. Murati is the CEO of Thinking Machines. Weights are promised to open up a week after safety checks. According to Artificial Analysis, the model matches Gemini 3.8 Flash and will be the best open model outside China.
GPT-6 Cyber finds hundreds of vulnerabilities
OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 Cyber initially for a limited set of clients in the Daybreak Red program. According to the company, the model found over 80 new vulnerabilities in Firefox, and a chain of agents collected 948 exploits for the Linux kernel over a 30-hour run.
ChatGPT can now make GIFs
OpenAI shipped Images 2.6 — the successor to Images 2.5 — in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. The model generates images 50% faster and can make animated GIFs from text or a photo.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: clips up to 15 seconds
Google made the video model generally available and cut its price by 30%. Clips got longer, edits can be made mid-conversation, and 720p costs $0.07 per second.
AI doubled the speed of AI development at Anthropic
METR researchers calculated that Anthropic's models are improving roughly twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025. The reason: the company itself is heavily using AI in its own development process.
Claude connects to bank accounts
Anthropic launched Personal Finance: users link bank cards and accounts via Plaid and ask Claude questions about their spending.
Software
Discord is ditching Electron
The company is rewriting its desktop app in Rust to make it faster and cut memory usage. The new version uses less RAM.
Robots and hardware
Agility Robotics goes public on Nasdaq
The humanoid robot maker, backed by Nvidia, became the first publicly traded US company focused solely on humanoid robots. The listing went through a SPAC merger, ticker AGLT.
China blocks the ABB Robotics acquisition
Beijing blocked SoftBank's attempt to buy ABB's robotics business for $5.4 billion. Regulators worried that robot data could end up abroad and be used to train AI.
Business
Anthropic's IPO proceeds amid market crash
The company hasn't delayed the listing and wants to go public before Thanksgiving. Investors call the $1.5 trillion valuation inflated and say they're willing to pay $1.1–1.3 trillion.
Congress summons Jensen Huang
Republicans demanded a closed-door briefing from Nvidia's CEO after reports that Chinese intelligence recruited a top Megaspeed executive to spy on him.
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