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1. Model

   Anthropic opens a preview of Claude Duet, an app where Claude works on its own (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Anthropic says the app brings you what needs your attention, keeps doing tasks while you are away and checks with you before it acts. It opens by waitlist, first for US Pro and Max subscribers.

   Anthropic · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

2. Trending

   Wiz used AI to find serious flaws in PHP, the language behind much of the web (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Wiz says the bugs, found with help from Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, could let attackers take over servers, affect PHP versions back to 5.4, and were patched on 21 October.

   428 points on Hacker News

   Wiz · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

3. Research

   A Microsoft researcher and a collaborator use AI agents to help solve a 31-year-old maths problem (opens the original source in a new tab)

   The KLS conjecture, a central question in high-dimensional geometry, is now resolved. AI systems explored ideas while the researchers judged and steered them, and other experts and a machine-checked proof confirmed it.

   Microsoft Research · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

4. Open source

   NVIDIA releases Kumo Relational, a model that predicts straight from business databases (opens the original source in a new tab)

   NVIDIA says it forecasts things like customer churn or fraud from a company's tables with no task-specific training, and beat trained models across 41 tasks on 15 databases.

   NVIDIA · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)