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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 Kylon rooms above five numbered harness layers, with humans, the Kylon Operations agent Ryan and bring-your-own agents Claude, Codex and Devin shown as separate members.

October 15, 2026

Kylon Launches a 'Company Harness' Where Claude Code, Codex and Devin Join Human Teams in Shared Rooms

Kylon's company harness puts its built-in Operations agent Ryan alongside user-brought Claude Code, Codex and Devin, with sandboxed cloud runtimes, draft-first approvals for email and line X sends and credit metering by room, agent and person.

Three panels showing the coordinated Qwen Code releases of 11 October 2026: CLI v0.25.1, Desktop v0.25.1 and TypeScript SDK v0.1.19, which bundles CLI 0.25.1 built from the SDK ref, above a band noting that child agents now run as sessions.

October 11, 2026

Qwen Code v0.25.1 Ships Stable: Session-Centric Multi-Agent Work, A2A on Sessions, and a Same-Day Desktop and SDK Train

Qwen Code's stable v0.25.1 moves multi-agent work onto sessions, removes the thread backend behind A2A, and lands with Desktop v0.25.1 and TypeScript SDK v0.1.19 bundling the same CLI. What operators should canary, pin and re-check.

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