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OpenAI makes Decisions API generally available with 400-question requests
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available for bounded text and image decisions without full responses. It adds native JSON inputs, prompt caching and up to 400 questions per request.

Cua Spaces adds AWS and Hetzner deployment in customer accounts
Cua Spaces added early-access deployment in customers’ AWS and Hetzner accounts. Cua reports lower sandbox costs than E2B and provides a compatibility command for existing E2B programs.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 models for document-image search
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Embed and Rerank models with document-image support through Sentence Transformers. NVIDIA reports reranking raises its ViDoRe v3 image-and-text result from 58.82 to 67.56 nDCG@10.


OpenAI makes Decisions API generally available with 400-question requests
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available for bounded text and image decisions without full responses. It adds native JSON inputs, prompt caching and up to 400 questions per request.

Modal releases open-source Spindle with reported 20–80% lower training costs
Modal released Spindle, which runs unchanged Tinker scripts in a Modal workspace with GPU-time billing. Modal reports 20–80% lower per-token costs when training runs share GPUs.

Vercel will require marketplace vendors to support OIDC
Vercel will require marketplace vendors to support OIDC instead of long-lived credentials. It shipped configuration components after finding that only 8.4% of surveyed SaaS vendors support secure short-lived access.

Cua Spaces adds AWS and Hetzner deployment in customer accounts
Cua Spaces added early-access deployment in customers’ AWS and Hetzner accounts. Cua reports lower sandbox costs than E2B and provides a compatibility command for existing E2B programs.
Vals reports Mercury 3 costs $1.25 per coding task, versus $0.38 for its predecessor
vLLM adds NVFP4 serving for MiniMax M3.1 Flash at 76 concurrent sequences
Artificial Analysis replaces DeepSWE with FrontierCode in Coding Agent Index v2.0
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 models for document-image search
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Recursive releases 40B-parameter Flint for local coding agents
Recursive released Flint, an Apache-2.0 coding model with 40B parameters and 2.5B active per token. The company reports over 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro at short contexts.


PHP 5.4+ flaws: public exploits emerge for two critical engine bugs
Two critical PHP engine flaws affect PHP 5.4 and later, and public exploits are available. Vercel says its firewall blocks attempts; patched releases include 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12.

Claude API 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k controls
Claude API version 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k and tightens message validation. New SDK major versions and the ant CLI default to it, while 2023-06-01 remains supported.

Railway users report blocked deployments after environment secrets are compromised
Railway users report compromised environment variables and drained API keys. Theo says blocked deployments prevented key rotation, forced three services offline and lasted over 17 hours.

Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an Opus 5.5 proactive agent
Claude Duet uses Opus 5.5 to work proactively with account memory, skills and connected apps. The research preview has a US waitlist for Pro and Max users and uses existing plan limits.







