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Happy Monday.
Welcome to the 235 new readers who joined us over the weekend!
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Enjoy today's news.
OpenCode reports a security breach from a large-scale distillation attack.
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Anthropic introduces a Public Benefit Fund that would receive 5% of its shares to support nonprofits and people affected by AI.
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Elon Musk pledges to give every U.S. child one of his own SpaceX shares next year, a giveaway worth an estimated $10.5B.
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Y Combinator opens applications for its Winter 2027 batch, with submissions due by November 2.
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U.S. banks block AI agents from moving customer money, citing security and liability risks.
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Dynamic Creatures unveils Hugo, a living character robot that notices people and responds with expressive emotion.
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Reason launches Reason Network, a free peer-to-peer tool that lets coding agents like Claude Code and Codex communicate and collaborate directly.
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Asakana launches to automate sales and back-office work for food distributors, with no system changes required.
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Elorian AI releases Glimpse, a visual reasoning model that zooms, measures, and tracks details in images and videos.
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New Hagerty video: Henry Catchpole meets up with Tesla VP of vehicle engineering Lars Moravy to break down the new Roadster’s flying tech, its three versions, and how Optimus and SpaceX shaped its design.
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Disrupt 2026: Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins TechCrunch’s Rebecca Bellan to discuss how AI lets anyone build software and what that means for the future of programming and entrepreneurship.
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New Lenny’s Podcast episode: Anthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explains how AI models plan ahead, why they’re “grown” rather than built, and how interpretability research connects to AI safety.
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New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea sits down with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch to discuss why AI agents now ship 60% of Vercel deployments, the shift from SaaS to personal software, and how the role of software engineers is changing.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Our friend Jack Zerby used Codex to hack his smart TV 😎
