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Oct 15, 2026, 3:39 AM EDT
Ant Group's inclusionAI Ships Ling-3.1-flash: 560B Open-Weight MoE With 1M-Token Context and a Vercel AI Gateway Lane
Ling-3.1-flash pairs 560B total and 25B active parameters with a 1M-token native context window, an MIT license badge on its model card, day-0 SGLang and vLLM support, and a Vercel AI Gateway model ID callable from Claude Code and Codex. Verified specs, recipes and chronology.
Oct 15, 2026, 1:35 AM EDT
OpenAI Retires GPT-5.5 From Codex for ChatGPT Sign-In: Migration Targets by Plan
GPT-5.5 retired from Codex for ChatGPT-authenticated sessions on October 14, 2026 at noon PDT. Here is what changes now, which plan moves to gpt-6.1-sol or gpt-6-luna, and why API-key sessions keep working.
Oct 15, 2026, 12:36 AM EDT
OpenAI Engineer Charged After Hidden Recorder Found in Executive Conference Room
Federal prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted audio recorder in an executive conference room, with chatbot prompts tracing the alleged plan; OpenAI says model weights, source code and customer data were not accessed.

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Hero overview of five Deep Agents context techniques keeping the active window small while file-backed detail stays retrievable.

October 14, 2026

Deep Agents Guide to Context Engineering: Keep the Window Small and Detail Recoverable

LangChain's Oct. 14 Deep Agents guide explains five middleware techniques for recoverable context engineering: offloading, summarization, skills, subagents, and file-based memory that survives model switches.

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