AI Daily · Nov 5, 2026 · Thu
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GPT-6 Astra directly rewrites other models' weights via weight-space programming
The Decoder reports that GPT-6 Astra uses a method researchers call Weight-Space Programming, directly reading and rewriting other models' raw weights rather than going through the conventional training pipeline of step-by-step mathematical optimization.
The DecoderOriginalModel releases/updates
Ricursive AI releases Ripple-65B Preview: 65B dense open model scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Ricursive AI releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight model pretrained from scratch for agentic coding, self-reporting a score of 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the highest for a US open-weight model.
Dharma-AI releases 2B-parameter Field Extractor document field extraction model
Dharma-AI releases the 2B-parameter Dharma Field Extractor, which takes document images and an optional schema as input and outputs structured JSON, with the same checkpoint requiring no per-document-type fine-tuning.
Product releases/updates
vLLM BlogFirst partyvLLM supports Kimi K3.1 Pro on day one, covering NVIDIA, AMD, TPU and Zhenwu PPU
vLLM announces support completed on the day Kimi K3.1 Pro launched, covering NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, Google TPUs and Alibaba T-Head Zhenwu PPUs. K3.1 Pro is Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter (104B active) multimodal MoE open-weight model, adding DSA sparse attention to all 24 full-attention layers, with a 1M context window.
Together AI BlogFirst partyTogether AI releases Together Compiler, using agents to continuously compile and optimize AI inference
Together AI releases Together Compiler (TKCC), which uses high-throughput agents to continuously generate optimizations for inference engines, achieving up to 2.6x TPS improvement on frontier open models in under 24 hours.
Cloudflare launches traffic visibility and access control for personal agents
Cloudflare releases new analytics capabilities and more granular access policies to help sites understand how personal agents access websites on behalf of users.
Industry news
OpenAI uses autonomous pipeline to find and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that discovers, verifies and generates patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The process chains vulnerability localization, verification and patch generation into automated steps.
404 MediaPlus 1 sources reportingUS midterm elections: data center proposals rejected in many places, anti-data-center candidates win
In the US midterm elections, of more than 40 data-center-related ballot proposals across 13 states, 38 have been rejected, 6 cities directly banned data centers, and 12 cities limited their power usage in megawatts. Texas Governor Abbott, who supports data centers, lost by more than 700,000 votes, while anti-data-center candidates won state-level and mayoral elections in many places.
OpenAI announces acquisition of Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company to expand Codex's tooling capabilities in code building, understanding and review. The original text did not disclose the transaction amount or completion time.