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Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small with native vision and fine-tuning
Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small on Tinker with native vision and fine-tuning support. Apache-licensed weights are planned after safety testing, while early checkpoints required fixes for guardrail circumvention.
Transluce releases DSSE-1.1 with 6,915 fine-tuning datasets
Transluce released DSSE-1.1, containing 6,915 datasets across 18 unexpected fine-tuning behaviors. It reports that side effects transfer across models, while researchers predicted outcomes with 63% accuracy against 50% chance.
Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video clips
Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with conversational video editing and clips up to 15 seconds. Drafts at 360p or 720p cost $0.07 per second, which Google says is 30% below its predecessor.
Practitioners report Alpine cloud images accept passwords over 256 characters
Reports describe Alpine AWS and Azure images accepting passwords longer than 256 characters. A reproduction on Alpine 3.24 reportedly gained root and identified openssh-server 10.3_p1-r2 as the fixed package.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small with native vision and fine-tuning
Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small on Tinker with native vision and fine-tuning support. Apache-licensed weights are planned after safety testing, while early checkpoints required fixes for guardrail circumvention.
Mistral Studio opens managed agents in public preview
Mistral Studio launched managed agents and hosted apps in public preview, with workflows generally available. Private-cloud and on-premises availability is scheduled for late November.
METR estimates Anthropic benchmark progress accelerated 1.9×
METR estimates Anthropic's benchmark progress has accelerated 1.9× and judges AI-assisted R&D likely drives most of it. Attribution remains uncertain, and much of the strongest evidence is redacted.
Transluce releases DSSE-1.1 with 6,915 fine-tuning datasets
Perplexity launches persistent Teammates for Max subscribers
Raindrop launches pull-request agent simulations in sandboxes
Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video clips
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Tencent releases Hy4 with a 1M-token context window in OpenClaw
Tencent's Hy4 is available in OpenClaw with vision and a 1M-token context window through Tencent services and OpenRouter. Chutes support is planned.
OpenAI Images 2.6 adds animated GIF generation
OpenAI's Images 2.6 adds animated GIFs and reusable reference images in ChatGPT and Codex. The API also adds Flare and Sunburst variants, complexity controls and SVG export.
FrankenSim grades simulated flute audio against real recordings
FrankenSim evaluates physics-based flute audio against recorded notes using acoustic metrics, spectrogram comparisons and historical grades. Its dashboard also includes blind-listening controls and a physics-claims register.
Junior assigns a separate agent to verify tool calls
Zeeg says Junior assigns an agent to verify tool calls. Its task threads share prompts, memory access and capabilities, but keep separate transcripts with more aggressive compaction for long-lived threads.
Runner-up runs GitHub Actions on self-hosted machines
Runner-up packages a self-hosted setup used for thousands of daily CI jobs, with disposable VMs for isolation. Its author estimates equivalent cloud runners would cost $5,000–$9,000 per month.