A second agent now watches Codex's first one for risky actions, free for anyone signed in with ChatGPT. The Codex poster @thsottiaux told users to run it instead of full access.
DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, about $12 billion, Bloomberg reports, well past its target and ahead of an early-2027 IPO. Tencent and CATL are reported among the biggest backers.
Kandinsky 6.0 Video makes five-second clips with 44 kHz lip-synced audio from text or an image, in 3B and 29B sizes. Weights, code and Diffusers support are public under the MIT license.
Reka says its 19-billion-parameter Rho-1 draws images, edits video and outputs robot joint trajectories from one network, trained on 320 H100 GPUs. It is a research preview, and Reka lists its own limits.
Reka AI has announced Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter model that Reka says "understands and generates text, images, and video, reasons over them, and takes actions" inside a single neural network. The Decoder reported the launch on 5 October. Reka calls it a research preview, and the announcement gives a contact address for partnership inquiries rather than a download or a price.
Google says users can open, edit and comment on markdown files in Docs and Drive without converting them, with the rollout starting 5 October and taking up to 15 days.
Amazon says Z.ai's 753-billion-parameter coding model is open to eligible enterprise customers on Bedrock, and Z.ai claims a 50 percent gain over GLM 5.2 on its own test.
Amazon's ALoDLM spends extra compute only on hard tokens. The authors say the 8B model scores 80.3 across eleven benchmarks against 78.5 for Qwen3-8B, and runs about 2.7 times faster on GSM8K.
SemiAnalysis says OpenAI halved the tokens on its $200 plan and cut cached pricing, leaving Anthropic's Opus 5.5 subscriptions with roughly five times the API-equivalent value of GPT 6.1 Sol.
HackerRank says its Chakra AI interviewer ran more than 500,000 interviews in a six-month beta. The company claims suspicious-activity flags ran 70 to 80 percent below its traditional tests.
Theo's T3 Code now lets agents build dynamic visualizations inside a thread, styled with the user's own theme. The maker's clip drew 969 likes in about an hour.
The Information reports IPO documents show Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025, helped by a share top-up program. The next biggest Fortune 500 donors gave about $115 million.
Researchers say many parallel AI agents, apparently on Tencent servers, query Alibaba's Amap for routes to a park, a zoo and a hospital. They see no sign the agents talk.
TechCrunch, citing sources, says the inference-chip start-up is in early talks at $40 billion to $50 billion, up from $21 billion last month. Etched says it has $1 billion in customer orders.