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Today in brief.
OpenAI pipeline patched 948 Linux kernel bugs for $1.2M in one run
OpenAI says an autonomous pipeline with an unreleased cyber model found, exploited and patched 948 local privilege escalation bugs in the Linux kernel in a single run.
🔬 Science
Claude mapped a bacterial vault particle in days, and hand-wrote a network's weights
Anthropic's biology team used Claude to solve a first 3D structure of a vault particle from bacteria in days instead of months, and a separate post says Claude wrote a classifier's weights by hand.
🤖 AI
Agents reality check: 4 Uber rides, but a $30k ad budget at 3.5x revenue
Uber says third-party AI agents booked four rides last quarter, while Perplexity says its agent ran a $30k Meta ad budget for a brand and beat the agency.
🎬 Media
Try today: ChatGPT makes GIFs, Runway Dev plugs into Claude Code, Perplexity search at $0.001
Three things you can use now: animated GIFs and reference images in ChatGPT, a Runway plugin that lets Claude Code add video and image generation to an app, and a cheap grounded-search API.
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🔧 Tech
Two open-weight models you can run, and open weights hit 75% of OpenRouter tokens
Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro as open weights and Ricursive released a 65B dense model trained for $32M, while a Reddit usage chart says open-weights labs now carry over 75% of OpenRouter tokens.
🏛️ Policy
Data centers lost at the ballot box in 33 local measures
Early midterm results show voters passing local limits on data centers almost everywhere they were on the ballot, and the buildout is now a visible election issue.
🔬 Science
Nothing says its first AI device ships in December with no screen
Carl Pei says Nothing's first AI-native product ships next month, has no new screen and 'couldn't have been an app', and that chasing 'the iPhone of AI' is a dead end.
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