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NVIDIA and Elith released Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan, a synthetic Japanese persona dataset. It has 1M records with 50 fields each, adds household finance and financial literacy data, and uses the CC BY 4.0 license.
OpenAI published Codex 0.169.0-alpha.3 on November 7, 2026, marked pre-release with no release notes. The releases page lists 0.167.0 as the latest stable version.
In the VS Code 1.145 release, Copilot local automations support cron expressions and custom agents from the workspace for running recurring tasks on a schedule.
Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash as generally available on the Gemini API and Gemini for business. It generates native video clips of up to 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds in Omni 1.1. Duration can be set from 3 to 15 seconds in one-second steps. Price is $0.07 per second for 720p, a 30% cut from Omni 1.1, and outputs carry a SynthID watermark.
Anthropic's biology research lab published what it describes as the first 3D structure of a prokaryotic vault particle. The vault comes from a bacteriophage and is built from 96 copies of a single protein; human vaults use 78. Anthropic says Claude helped with database search, DNA construct design, isolation-method optimization and microscopy data processing. A preprint has been submitted to bioRxiv.
Dependabot version updates now support Agent Package Manager. Dependabot opens PRs to update git dependencies declared in apm.yml, such as agent skills, prompts and instructions, and regenerates apm.lock.yaml. It does version updates only, not security updates.
Claude Code v2.1.317 adds onFailure: "block" for Agent SDK hook callbacks. With it, a hook callback that fails blocks the action instead of letting it run.
Claude's consumer plans are now Free ($0), Pro ($20/month), Max ($100/month) and Ultra ($200/month). Ultra takes the old $200 Max 20x slot.
Parameter Labs found a ChatGPT exploit chain: a sandboxed HTML preview sent postMessage to MathLive's virtual keyboard listener, which used innerHTML, letting a shared chat link run code in a signed-in victim's session.
Enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can get Copilot included for every GitHub Enterprise licensed user. Usage is metered against an enterprise budget with no per-seat monthly credits. Self-serve customers get it later, in stages.
Codex CLI 0.165.0 adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider (model_provider = "gcp") and GPT-6.1 Terra in its model catalogs. It also turns on memory v2 by default for fresh profiles.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, API id gpt-6.1-terra, priced at $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 cached input and $5 output, with a context window of about 1.05M tokens.
In a Claude Code skill's frontmatter, the description field is what Claude reads to decide when to load the skill, and disable-model-invocation: true stops Claude from loading it on its own, so it only runs when you invoke it.
Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class model with a 1M-token context window. It is on the Kimi API as kimi-k3.1-pro and kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeed, and in Kimi Code.
The consolidated GitHub app for Microsoft Teams lets you @mention GitHub to investigate an issue and open a fix PR. The legacy GitHub app will be retired on November 16.
Railway disclosed on Oct 21, 2026 that an unauthorized party may have accessed stored customer environment variables, some of them decrypted. Railway paused all deployments and told customers to rotate every stored variable.
Claude Code v2.1.307 adds /claude-api api-version, which moves code to Anthropic API version 2026-10-21. That version removes temperature, top_p and top_k, which now return a 400 error on every model.
On Oct 19, 2026, GitHub deprecated GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini, Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok 4.5 across most Copilot experiences. Suggested replacements include GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Grok 4.7.
OpenAI published Codex CLI rust-v0.164.0-alpha.4 as a GitHub pre-release on Oct 19, 2026. It has no release notes beyond its title.
Claude Haiku 5.5 API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens, and $0.50/$2.50 above that. Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5.
Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 no longer needs a beta header or access request. It costs $8 input and $40 output per million tokens.