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Curated coverage on «LLM»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

Codex goes beyond code: 5M weekly users in June, 40M by October
Knowledge workers are growing on Codex three times faster than developers. Together with ChatGPT Work, the OpenAI product reached 40 million active users by October.

iFlytek Unveils Spark X2.6, the Xingchen TaaS Platform and the SparkAudio 1.0 Speech Model
At the 1024 festival in Beijing, iFlytek showed Spark X2.6 with a device-plus-cloud architecture, the Xingchen TaaS platform and the SparkAudio 1.0 speech…

Vercel Agent gets production access through a scoped plan and a single approval
Vercel explains how its agent works with live systems: it investigates with read: permissions, proposes a plan, and gets write access only after approval. The API…

Open-weight models take 71.5% of Vercel AI Gateway tokens and 23% of spend

Interface: a $99 smart ring that summons AI agents with a single tap

Vercel Takes Python to GA and Launches Daemons for Background Workers

Goodfire launches 'internal' AI agent monitors that undercut LLM oversight costs

Vercel Sandbox Survives Hacking Challenge: 1,285 Reports, $242,000 and a Linux Kernel Bug
Researchers filed 1285 reports in two weeks and earned $242,000, but no one reached customer data. The top finding is a zero-day in the Linux kernel.

SpaceXSI Combined X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into One Subscription for $8–200
SpaceX Super Intelligence launched The X Subscription, combining X Premium, Grok, and Cursor in five tiers from $8 to $200/month. The comprehensive offering…

OpenAI's Revenue Hits $50 Billion: Company Seeks $30 Billion in Funding

Anthropic cuts the data leaking to Claude distillers by 90–99%

Narrow AI Agent vs. Universal Swiss Army Knife: How We Cut Response Latency from 17 to 7.7 Seconds

OpenAI Fires Three Security Researchers Who Investigated the Hugging Face Breach

OpenAI expects to reach $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026
Bloomberg reports OpenAI expects annualized revenue of $70 billion or more by year-end, up from about $50 billion in late September. That means adding $20 billion…

Sophos Cuts Cyberthreat Investigation Time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Sophos has deployed OpenAI Daybreak in its MDR service: threat investigations are 96% faster, and 52% of cases are closed automatically. Analysts keep control.









