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Oct 15, 2026, 4:31 AM EDT
Figma Ships Specs, a Markdown Rules Editor for AI Agents, and Takes Code Layers to Public Beta
At its first Config in India, Figma launched Specs, a Markdown editor for design rules that agents can consult as context, moved code layers from private to public beta, and added more than 20 tools to its MCP support, TechCrunch reports.
Oct 15, 2026, 4:29 AM EDT
Bank of America Says Patching Flaws Anthropic's Mythos Found Cost It 'A Couple Hundred Million Plus'
On its Q3 2026 earnings call, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan disclosed 1,000 contractors and hundreds of millions in costs tied to patching flaws Anthropic's Mythos model exposed — one of the first concrete megabank tallies of frontier-model dual-use risk.
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.

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Three-panel editorial illustration: an executive conference-room television with a recorder hidden at its USB port, the chatbot prompts alleged to have planned it, and the resulting federal charges and penalties.

October 15, 2026

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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