Meta Open-Weights an 816B Model, With a Revenue Line in the Licence
Muse Spark Open publishes 816B weights under a custom licence that requires a separate hosting agreement above $20M in gross revenue over twelve months.
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OCP Summit 2026: Intel's D-Series, AMD's Helion, Nvidia's 250kW Rack
Intel's D-series inference GPU samples in a 350W air-cooled slot, AMD's Helion racks ship from November, and Nvidia's MGX 1.2 reference reaches 250kW.
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GitHub Copilot Retires Three Models on 16 November
Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra stop working in Copilot on 16 November, so pinned prompts and agent configs must move first.
GitHub's Agentic Autofix Is Now Generally Available, and Metered
Agentic autofix is GA and metered: each fix draws AI Credits from the Code Security budget plus Actions minutes, replacing the free Generate Fix.
ChatGPT's Chrome Extension Can Now Read Your Open Tabs
OpenAI's Chrome extension can pull context from open tabs and act on them, which hands a reading agent everything a signed-in browser session can see.
The EU AI Act Gets Its First Harmonised Standard, and It Has a Number
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2274 cites EN 18286:2026 in the Official Journal, giving high-risk AI providers a citable quality-management standard.
Nvidia Open-Sources Run:ai and Retires Its Proprietary GPU Fractioning
No paid Run:ai subscription is needed for the open-source build, and the proprietary GPU fractioning gives way to a CUDA 13.4 capability.
GitHub Starts Blocking Committed Anthropic Keys by Default
Anthropic service and user API keys are now in push protection defaults, so a commit carrying one is refused before it reaches the repository.
Meta Launches Its First Frontier Models
Meta's Muse Wonder models reach developers only through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, so there is no weight file to download and no self-hosted option.
Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, and Breaks What Assumed Otherwise
UTF-8 is now the default text encoding, so code that relied on the locale encoding will read or write different bytes than it did on 3.14.
The tensorlake npm Worm Targets AI Tools, and Waits for a Token Revoke
Version 0.5.144 of the tensorlake npm SDK shipped a preinstall worm that wipes the machine if a stolen GitHub token is revoked.
Treasury Issues Its First Outbound Investment Penalty, for $92,478
Treasury fined Amidi, LLC $200,000 for not notifying a $92,478 investment by its Chinese subsidiary into an embodied-AI company, the programme's first penalty.
Gemini's Auto Browse Reaches India, and the Agentic Browser Gets Real
Chrome users in India can now hand multi-step browsing tasks to Gemini's Auto Browse, which makes the agentic browser a mass-market question.
Chrome 155 Brings JPEG XL and Post-Quantum WebCrypto
WebCrypto gains ML-KEM, ML-DSA and X-Wing, and Blink gets a Rust JPEG XL decoder, though Chrome still labels the release Preview.
An SSRF in the Official MCP Fetch Servers
CWE-918 in mcp-server-fetch and mcp-server-everything 2026.6.0 to 2026.6.4 lets a crafted URL steer the fetch tool, and the fix pull request is still unmerged.
An Appeals Court Says Training on Westlaw Headnotes Was Not Fair Use
The Third Circuit affirmed judgment for Thomson Reuters, holding that ROSS's training on Westlaw headnotes was not fair use and harmed a licensing market.
Claude Opus 5.5 Cuts Prices, and the Table Says Where
Opus 5.5 cuts input to $4 and output to $20 per million tokens and drops cache reads 60%, which is what changes for anyone running long agent sessions.
A Malicious npm Package That Defeats `--ignore-scripts`
The indexed-btree npm package hid its loader inside BTree.prototype.set(), so it ran during normal use and no install-time control ever saw it.
Ninth Circuit: Copilot's Output Is Not a Copy
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of the DMCA claim against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI, while the open-source licence claims survive in district court.
Interop 2027 Opens, and the 2026 Numbers Say the Web Is Converging
Chrome and Edge pass 98 percent of the Interop 2026 tests, Firefox 96 and Safari 92, and that gap names where cross-browser work still sits.