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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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October 15, 2026

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.

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