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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter, 104B-active MoE model with 1M-token context. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and open weights arrive by Nov 4, 2026. The post Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Block releases its new voice AI model, Dessa: trained entirely on real-world conversations, with a slightly awkward conversational style.
Jack Dorsey’s company, Block, announced the launch of an end-to-end voice AI model called Dessa, claiming it was trained entirely from scratch using only human speech dialogue data. The official demonstration samples exhibited a mix of naturalness and awkwardness—for example, mistakenly addressing a user as “Ronaldo”—highlighting its anthropomorphic yet still immature conversational capabilities.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will be held in Boston on November 4, focusing on customer acquisition, team building, and rational expansion.
The Founder Summit 2026, co-hosted by TechCrunch and Fidelity Private Shares, is scheduled for November 4, 2026, at the SoWa Power Station in Boston. The event will focus on practical topics such as product-market fit validation, founder leadership, localized scaling strategies, and AI-native architectures. Representatives from institutions including Toast, Bessemer, and Glasswing will share their firsthand experiences.
iPhone Duo Review Controversy: It May Be Better Positioned as an iPad Rather Than an iPhone
The Verge gave the rumored iPhone Duo a score of 7/10, but the editorial team openly questioned the rationale behind this rating in a podcast, exploring whether its product positioning was fundamentally flawed—that is, whether it should have been a foldable iPad rather than a dual-screen iPhone.
AWS CDK builds reusable constructs to resolve the blocking issue during SageMaker endpoint scaling updates.
When a SageMaker real-time AI endpoint has Application Auto Scaling enabled, attempting to update its configuration—such as instance type or count—directly via AWS CDK or CloudFormation will fail. This paper proposes a CDK construct based on custom resources that leverages strict dependency orchestration to achieve atomic updates of both the endpoint’s configuration and its scaling policies, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
Amazon QuickSight’s layered maps now support GeoJSON point and line features, enabling the visualization of locations and routes together.
Amazon QuickSight’s layered maps now support the GeoJSON formats for Point and LineString geometries, enabling users to overlay store locations, delivery routes, or flight trajectories on the same map. This capability requires no third-party services, but it does demand that GeoJSON files adhere to the proper structure, with matching keys and static updates.
AI has achieved a series of breakthroughs in the field of mathematical proof: from a counterexample to the unit-distance conjecture to a proof of the Navier–Stokes equations.
From May to September 2026, OpenAI and organizations such as Anthropic reported several AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs, including disproving the Erdős unit-distance conjecture, completing a proof of the cycle double cover conjecture, advancing estimates for the Riemann hypothesis, and providing a new proof of the Navier–Stokes equations. The paper proposes a non-numeric conceptual framework to explain the limits of its capabilities, emphasizing that AI has unique advantages in high-cost, low-gradient exhaustive problems; however, none of these results have undergone independent verification or peer review.
Meta postpones the implementation of its new commercial terms, responding to publishers’ concerns about AI scraping.
Meta announced that, due to publishers’ concerns that its new commercial terms might authorize large-scale scraping of news website content for AI training, it would postpone the implementation of these terms—originally scheduled to take effect on October 30, 2026—to November 20, 2026.
AI-driven retro game porting wave shakes up the traditional emulation community
Recently, thanks to new AI tools, numerous unofficial cross-platform porting projects of retro games—such as “Halo” running on the web, “The Wind Waker” arriving on iPhone, and “Super Smash Bros.” entering mixed reality—have been gaining popularity. However, this AI‑accelerated decompilation–recompilation (decomp/recomp) approach is sparking controversy and division within the old-school game preservation community.
AI Agents Are Already Hacking Websites. Can Businesses Keep Up?
Andrew Yang warns that AI-powered cyberattacks are about to become historically severe. Are we seeing the first signs of this?
Meta’s update to its commercial terms still fails to allay news organizations’ legal concerns about AI scraping.
Meta has revised its commercial account terms of service, removing language that explicitly permitted its AI models to be freely trained on news websites. However, legal experts note that the remaining broad wording—such as “related to your products or services”—could still be interpreted as authorizing large-scale web scraping.
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)
DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat: The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it. Via flir on Hacker News Tags: music, ai, generative-ai, pelican-riding-a-bicycle
OpenAI officially launches the Decisions API decision-making model, directly competing with TypeSafe Jev.
OpenAI will make the Decisions API available to all customers around October 22, 2026. This model is rebuilt on top of ChatGPT Luna and emphasizes millisecond-level low latency and cost-effective inference, with advantages in multimodal tasks such as image understanding. Currently, it lags behind competitors like the latest Jev and D1 Ultra in mainstream decision-making model benchmarks, but has already been adopted in real-world testing by companies including Box, Datadog, and Speak.
Discord updates its Markdown preview rendering feature: now supports tables and formatted display.
Discord recently rolled out an update that improves the preview of uploaded .md files, now correctly rendering Markdown formatting—including tables, bold text, lists, and more—instead of displaying only the raw syntax.
Meta is vigorously promoting the Muse AI agent network: humans will primarily communicate with one another through AI agents.
Mark Zuckerberg is vigorously advancing a vision of the future built on autonomous AI agents—Muse will shop, work, and even engage in conversations with other AI agents on behalf of users. This vision gained attention following Meta’s Q3 2026 earnings call; Muse was made available to the public last month, though its actual capabilities and large-scale deployment remain in the early stages.
Major upgrade to Amazon Polly’s generative engine: 14 new voices added, and for the first time, support for Hindi and Finnish generative speech, with zero-code migration.
Amazon Polly’s generative engine has undergone a major upgrade, significantly enhancing speech naturalness, accuracy, and emotional expressiveness, while supporting low-latency streaming synthesis. Fourteen new generative voices have been added, covering nine regions, and for the first time, generative voices in Hindi (Arjun, Kiara) and Finnish (Suvi) are universally available. The entire update is a seamless, drop-in replacement, requiring no changes to API calls or code.
Chinese-affiliated hackers used AI proxies to infiltrate the ConnectWise cloud backup system, affecting approximately 2,250 enterprises.
Microsoft’s security team reported that a China-linked hacking group compromised the cloud backup service of IT management provider ConnectWise, stole customer application credentials, and leveraged the open-source AI framework ARTEX to carry out rapid lateral movement, launching nearly 3,000 login attempts per minute on average and resulting in espionage activities affecting approximately 2,250 client organizations.
Laika CEO Travis Knight said that AI contradicts the studio’s core philosophy.
Laika Animation Studio’s new film, “Wildwood,” took five years to produce and involved more than a thousand artists; the entire film was created using traditional stop-motion animation techniques. Director and CEO Travis Knight publicly stated that generative AI “runs counter to everything our studio stands for.”