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Anthropic shares early results from drug-development partnerships
Anthropic says its scientists have spent the past few months in research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines (BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group), and have begun drug discovery efforts of their own. In a blog post it shares early results and says it has learned how Claude can support the many stages of drug development. The post also describes how this work fits Anthropic's wider ambitions in the life sciences.Claude Code 2.1.312 limits concurrent hooks, widens automatic model switches and adds an OIDC claim setting
Claude Code v2.1.312, released October 27, 2026, per its release notes:Codex 0.165.0 adds a Google Cloud Vertex AI provider and GPT-6.1 Terra, and turns on memory v2 for fresh profiles
Codex CLI 0.165.0, released October 27, 2026, per its release notes:Cursor adds Annotate to design mode for visual prompts to agents
Cursor announced on October 27 a new Annotate feature in its design mode. It lets users give agents visual prompts: edit elements, draw on the page, and review designs at different screen sizes. In the browser, Cmd+Shift+D starts design mode. Documentation is at cursor.com/docs/agent/design-mode.
Google Research proposes a "sleep" phase so LLMs can keep learning without forgetting
Google Research published "The sleep framework" on October 27, 2026 (Ali Behrouz and Vahab Mirrokni). It describes a continual-learning approach in which a deployed model alternates between an active phase, holding new information in short-term memory, and a sleep phase, when it stops taking input and consolidates that memory into its weights.Google releases the Gemini API CLI in beta
Google's Gemini API changelog lists a beta of the Gemini API CLI (gemini-api), a stateless, zero-dependency command-line client meant for AI coding agents, scripts and CI pipelines. It runs on the Interactions API and can generate text and media, analyze files, and run Gemini managed agents. Google points to a Gemini API CLI guide for getting started.Anthropic releases Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors and workflow skills
Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors, a set of connectors and skills for the research, meeting-prep and documentation work of financial advisors. The connectors cover custodians, asset managers, portfolio reporting, CRM, planning and estate tools, with partners including Addepar, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Envestnet, FactSet, Franklin Templeton, iCapital, Invesco, J.P. Morgan Asset Management (55ip), MSCI, Orion, SS&C Black Diamond, Vanguard, Wealthbox and Zocks.Anthropic offers governments a 40% discount on Claude through an expanded GSA agreement
Anthropic expanded its partnership with the US General Services Administration (GSA) with an agreement that gives government customers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. Anthropic says it is the first time the discount covers every product surface: it applies to direct purchases now and to purchases through cloud providers in the coming months. It also extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Agencies have no minimum spend commitment and pay for what they use. Anthropic estimates the discounts will save the government $1 billion, and says agencies can buy at the OneGov discount through GSA's Multiple Award Schedule today.Anthropic study: analysts using Claude Code followed the agent's hidden lean on 86% of judgment calls
Anthropic published a study of how an AI agent shapes expert decisions. It ran a randomized trial with 50 professional analysts (experienced in causal inference) who analyzed whether a fictional farming cooperative's advisory program worked, using Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.8 at High effort. According to Anthropic:Vercel's HarnessAgent now accepts image input
Vercel says HarnessAgent now supports image input across every harness adapter. You pass images alongside text in the standard AI SDK message format, and according to Vercel each harness's underlying vision model handles the rest. The details are in Vercel's changelog entry.ChatGPT adds iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins
OpenAI's ChatGPT account says iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins are now available in ChatGPT, calling them much requested. Once connected, you can ask ChatGPT to find an email, catch up on your inbox, check what is next on your calendar or update a calendar event.Arena adds connectors to Agent Mode
Arena says Agent Mode now supports connectors to outside tools, including Vercel, Linear, GitHub, Supabase and Notion, so the agent can work on tasks that use those services.
Liquid AI introduces LFM3, six small models across text, vision, audio and omni
Liquid AI announced LFM3, a new generation of its Liquid Foundation Models built on what it calls a new tri-hybrid architecture, with new multimodal encoders. It says the architecture is optimized for 14 processor classes across GPUs, CPUs and NPUs, and that the models can be fine-tuned on one GPU.Nous Research revamps Hermes Agent subscriptions with a cloud agent and daily and weekly limits
Nous Research announced on X on October 27 new Hermes Agent subscription plans. According to the post, every new plan includes a cloud agent out of the box, and usage is capped by daily and weekly limits instead of one monthly block of credits. Existing subscribers can switch to the new plans at any time from the billing page of the Nous portal. The post includes a short video; it gives no prices.
Google DeepMind introduces Genie 4, a real-time interactive world model
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on October 27, 2026, calling it its most realistic and interactive world model yet. In its post, DeepMind says users can explore dynamic environments in real time and see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react and speak. It published a blog post, "Genie 4: a new generation of world simulation".Parallel launches the Decisions API, which grounds decision models in current web data at $0.001 per request
Parallel announced the Decisions API on X on October 27 and says it is live. It calls it "the first web-grounded decisions engine": decision models such as Jev answer instantly but lack the recency of current news, and the new API combines both in a single call. That claim is Parallel's own.