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OpenAI· Coding

Codex 0.167.0 adds an agent command center, backend switching in the session picker and image previews

OpenAI's release notes for Codex 0.167.0 list these changes:Models

Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a proprietary model with open weights promised

Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, saying it scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a big jump over Inkling Small. It is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker, its platform, and in Tinker Playground today. Thinking Machines says the full weights are planned soon; for now the model is proprietary.Models

Arena ranks Tencent's Hy4 the best Chinese model in Agent Arena

Arena says Tencent's Hy4 is now the #1 Chinese model in its Agent Arena, and that this makes Tencent Hunyuan the only Chinese lab in the top 5. Arena bases the ranking on more than 12,000 real-world, long-horizon agentic sessions from its user community, up from about 8,500 in its earlier result, when it placed Hy4 #14 overall.Models

World Labs releases Frameboy, a real-time demo of its Atlas world model

World Labs released Frameboy, a demo for exploring generated worlds in real time. It runs a highly optimized version of Atlas, the autoregressive world model with camera control that the company introduced two months ago, and streams from cloud GPUs at up to 15 frames per second. World Labs describes Atlas's camera control as pixel-perfect; that is the company's claim.Anthropic· Coding

Users report Claude Code puts their email address in web request headers; Anthropic says a built-in mod blocks it

A GitHub issue on the Claude Code repository, opened on November 5, 2026, reports that Claude Code sent the user's email address to third-party websites in the User-Agent header of web requests made during searches. The reporter, on version 2.1.318, says they receive dozens of scam emails a day and asks for the behavior to be removed entirely. The Hacker News thread about it had 574 points and 192 comments by the evening of November 5, and the issue itself had dozens of reactions.OpenRouter· Models

OpenRouter's catalog gives two Meta Llama 3.2 models an expiration date of November 15

OpenRouter's model catalog now shows an expiration date of November 15, 2026 for two Meta models listed since September 2024: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct, 131,072-token context) and Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (meta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct, 60,000 tokens). Neither entry had an expiration date before. This is a catalog field only; the entries do not say why or what happens to the models after that date.Models

Artificial Analysis ranks FLUX 3 Image Klein #2 among open-weight text-to-image models

Artificial Analysis says Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open-weight image model released on October 15, is the #2 open-weight model on its AA-Image-T2I v2.1 leaderboard, neck and neck with #1 Qwen-Image-2.1. On AA-Image-Editing v2.1 it ranks #3 among open-weight models. The rankings are Artificial Analysis's own.Moonshot AI· Models· 5 discussions

Moonshot releases the open weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro

Moonshot posted on X that it is releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, on Hugging Face as moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro, and said "we'll keep advancing open intelligence." It had promised the weights by November 4 when it launched the model on October 23.Models

Perplexity cuts Agent API prices at every effort level and adds an "ultra" level

Perplexity says every effort level of its Agent API now costs less with the same or higher research quality, and adds a new ultra level for the most demanding, long-running requests. Effort levels are bundled agent configurations, optimized for specific tasks; developers choose among fast, low, medium, high, xhigh and ultra.Google· Models

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now live on Vercel's AI Gateway

Vercel says Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video model is live on its AI Gateway, under the model id google/gemini-omni-1.2-flash. Vercel lists clips of 3 to 15 seconds with native audio, edits with up to six reference images, extensions to 30 seconds in total, and resolutions from 360p to 4K in landscape or portrait.Open source· 1 discussions

Hermes Agent v0.23.0 adds a browser desktop, /rewind, group chats and spend limits

Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.23.0, which it calls the Hearth Release. Its highlights, as the company lists them:Coding

Executor v2 launches as a code-drivable, agent-facing take on Zapier and Retool

Rhys Sullivan announced Executor v2, which he calls a massive overhaul of the product that unlocks "every use case people have wanted from the beginning." He describes v2 as Zapier or Retool made fully drivable as code, with everything exposed to your agent. The announcement came with a demo video; the post had 574 likes on X by November 5. These are the author's own claims.Moonshot AI· Models

Kimi K3.1 Pro is now available in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI

Cognition's Devin team posted that Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro can now be used in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI.Google· Models

Arena ranks Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash #1 in text-to-video and image-to-video

Arena says Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash debuts at #1 in both its Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video leaderboards and at #3 in Video Edit.OpenAI· Models

OpenAI will retire gpt-5.5-cyber-preview on February 1, 2027

OpenAI's API deprecations page lists gpt-5.5-cyber-preview for shutdown on February 1, 2027, in an entry dated November 5. As the replacement it names "the most capable cyber model available to you", without naming a model.Cursor· Coding

Cursor lets cloud agents build and host live web apps

Cursor says you can now build a web app in Cursor and share it with a link. You start a cloud agent and tell it you want to build an app; Cursor then scaffolds the app, spins up a Postgres database if needed, sets up authentication behind Cursor SSO and provisions hosting. When you publish, you pick a unique domain and get a live link. If the app needs to reach your systems, such as a data warehouse, Cursor asks for the secrets it needs.Models

Design Arena ranks Ling-3.2-flash #10 on Image to Frontend Arena

Design Arena says Ant Ling's Ling-3.2-flash placed #10 on its Image to Frontend Arena with an Elo of 1238, among models from Meta, Anthropic and DeepSeek. It says the model sets a new Pareto frontier of preference against price, at $0.30 input and $0.90 output per 1M tokens, the cheapest for any model at that level of performance.Infrastructure

Cloudflare AI Gateway adds model aliases, named pools of models with fallback

Cloudflare's AI Gateway now supports model aliases, according to a post that Cloudflare's developer account shared. A model alias is a pool of models that an application calls by one name. The gateway tries the models in the order set and falls back to the next one if a request fails, or uses smart routing to choose a model for each request.OpenRouter· Models

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now live on OpenRouter

OpenRouter says Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video model is live on its platform. It lists 15-second clips, resolutions from 360p to 4K, native audio, and about 30% lower per-second pricing than Omni 1.1. OpenRouter says the price is the same as going direct to Google, and that one API now covers video and chat.Infrastructure

Vercel Schedules is in public beta, so agents and apps can schedule their own work

Vercel put Vercel Schedules into public beta. Vercel says agents and applications can schedule and manage their own work:
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