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OpenAI help page says ChatGPT and Codex limits will be shared from December
An X post by TokenGremlin, with about 190 likes and 60 replies on X by October 31, says OpenAI's help page "Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits" now states that from December, the Plus, Pro and Business allowance will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex. OpenAI has not announced the change in a post of its own that we have seen.OpenRouter's catalog gives Z.ai: GLM 4.7 an expiration date of December 31
OpenRouter's model catalog now shows an expiration date of December 31, 2026 for "Z.ai: GLM 4.7" (z-ai/glm-4.7), a model listed since December 22, 2025 with a 204,800-token context. The entry had no expiration date before. This is a catalog field only; the entry does not say why or what happens to the model after that date.OpenCode says its DeepSeek V4.1 Flash configs match DeepSeek's API, after reports the model feels dumber
OpenCode's founder (thdxr) wrote that OpenCode Go gets occasional reports that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash "feels dumber" for some people. He said he ran every benchmark he could find against the different configurations OpenCode Go serves, and that the results are in the same range.Hex, a local voice-input app for talking to coding agents, reaches a stable release
The OpenCode account said on X on October 31 that a stable release of Hex is available. It describes Hex as a way to talk to any agent by voice that is fast, runs locally and works on Mac, Windows and Linux. The post links to anoma.ly/hex.Rock Matrix open-sources EdgeRock-4B, a small reasoning model with a fixed-size KV cache
Rock Matrix released the weights and code of EdgeRock-4B, a 4B text-and-image reasoning model, on GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope, with NF4, INT8 and FP8 versions. A paper is on arXiv (2610.10118). The announcement was relayed on X by TestingCatalog on October 31.Researchers say a public ChatGPT share link could run code in a victim's session; OpenAI fixed it on October 26
The security firm Parameter published a write-up on October 28 saying its researchers found a way to run attacker-controlled JavaScript inside the signed-in ChatGPT session of anyone who opened a public conversation share. OpenAI fixed the issue on October 26 and classified the report as P1, according to the write-up.
GPT-6 Astra for Law is not announced, but appears on OpenAI's pricing page and model list
OpenAI has not announced a legal version of GPT-6 Astra. Two X accounts report that it has shown up on OpenAI's own pages.Anthropic sets thousands of Claude agents to red-team training-data monitors for emergent misalignment
Anthropic published research on automating red-teaming for subtle emergent misalignment, saying red-teaming is vital to model safety testing but limited by researchers' time. Everything below is Anthropic's own account, from its post and its Alignment Science Blog write-up.
Claude Code 2.1.316 deprecates fast mode for Opus 4.8, with removal on November 30
Claude Code v2.1.316, released October 30, 2026, per its release notes:Vercel Labs introduces agent-desktop, computer use for any coding agent
Chris Tate of Vercel Labs introduced agent-desktop, described as "agent-browser, for your whole computer". Vercel Labs' agent-browser is its browser-automation command-line tool for AI agents.
Artificial Analysis details AA-Omniscience v1.1, with a smaller dataset and a new public set
Artificial Analysis published the details of AA-Omniscience v1.1, its knowledge and hallucination benchmark, which it updated on October 27 as part of v5 of its Intelligence Index. The benchmark's Net Score rewards correct answers, penalizes wrong ones and treats abstaining as neutral.OpenAI Agents API adds auto review, background compaction and automatic system-prompt caching
An OpenAI engineer on the Agents API team listed the week's changes; the OpenAI Developers account posted a pointer to the same list. According to that post:Cloudflare Durable Objects can now wait to apply code updates until they hibernate
Cloudflare Durable Objects can now defer a code update until an object hibernates, so long-running agent turns can finish even when new versions are deployed often. Cloudflare engineers describe it this way: after a deploy, each object waits for its current work to complete before it switches to the new code. The change is documented in Cloudflare's developer changelog dated October 30. One of the engineers adds that more Durable Objects updates are coming, aimed at running long-running agents.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Rosalind, a biology model with scientific tool use, to approved organizations
OpenAI's API changelog for October 30, 2026 lists the release of GPT-6 Rosalind (gpt-6-rosalind), which it describes as bringing specialized biological reasoning with scientific tool use to complex life sciences research. Access is limited to organizations approved for Rosalind Research through a trusted-access program, for internal research by authorized users.Gemini API's Computer Use tool is generally available
Google's Gemini API changelog says the Computer Use tool has moved to general availability. It works across both the Interactions API and the GenerateContent API.Anthropic confirms a Claude Code prompt change to stop Opus 5.5 recreating specific games
Anthropic has confirmed that it added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer the model away from recreating a specific existing game. Game Developer reported it on October 30.
Mercor's APEX-Agents leaderboard puts Gemini 4 Carbon first, the only model with a mean above 90%
Mercor, which publishes the APEX-Agents benchmark, says Gemini 4 Carbon debuts at #1 on its leaderboard. These are Mercor's own measurements. APEX-Agents tests long-horizon, multi-step tasks drawn from investment banking, management consulting and corporate law.Anthropic renames its Max plans to Max and Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts
Anthropic announced on X that it is renaming its Max plans: Max 5x becomes Max and Max 20x becomes Ultra. Prices do not change: Max stays at $100 a month and Ultra at $200. Anthropic says existing subscribers need to do nothing.
OpenCode Go raises its DeepSeek V4.1 Flash quota to $100 of usage
OpenCode posted "Operation Cheepseek Phase 4": its OpenCode Go subscription now includes $100 of usage for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. The post does not say what the quota was before or whether it applies to every plan.OpenCode 2.2.3 adds an image generation tool
The OpenCode account said on X on October 30 that OpenCode 2.2.3 has an image generation tool that supports image models from OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and others. It suggests using it for concept UI or reference art for video games.