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Nov 9, 2026
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic Back Unified AI Training Opt-Out in Robots.txt
The four largest Western AI labs will honor a single robots.txt policy token that lets website owners opt out of AI training across all their crawlers at once. Anthropic has already begun implementation; OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft follow in 2027.
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Nov 9, 2026
OpenAI Acquires Pierre to Build End-to-End Dev Platform in Codex
OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company, maker of Code Storage and open-source Git tools Trees and Diffs, to transform Codex from an AI coding assistant into a full-spectrum development platform. The deal brings Pierre's source control, code review, and project organization tools into Codex, building on OpenAI's recently launched Pando Git backend.
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Nov 8, 2026
Revolut Swaps Claude Code for Chinese GLM, Cuts Coding Costs 90%
Revolut has moved roughly 2,000 engineers from Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to a self-hosted instance of GLM 5.3, an open-weight model from Beijing-based Z.ai, cutting AI-assisted coding costs by approximately 90%. David Abitbol, who leads AI operations and infrastructure at Revolut, shared the migration story at the AI Engineer conference in New York, detailing how the fintech tuned the model from a "terrible" out-of-box experience of 14-second latency down to 1.6 seconds. The move underscores a growing trend: well-funded engineering organizations are betting on self-hosted open-weight models over per-seat SaaS subscriptions for AI coding tools.
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Inkling 2 Small: Hosted on Tinker Now, Open Weights Next Week
Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter MoE model with 17B active per token, is available today via Tinker's hosted API with closed weights. The company plans to release the full weights under an Apache 2.0 license next week after safety evaluations. The model supports text and image inputs (no audio), offers 64K and 256K context variants, and its per-token pricing on Tinker is operation-specific: prefill costs $0.30 per million tokens ($0.03 cached), sampling costs $1.00, and training costs $1.50 for the 64K context version. This article clarifies the current deployment routes, exact context limits, input modalities, and cost structure to help developers choose between immediate hosted access and future self-hosting.
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Nov 7, 2026
OpenAI Agents SDK preview separates local profiles from portable checkpoints
Alpha.6 adds LocalStorage and expands SessionState recovery. Its pinned guide keeps runtime compatibility, current tool authority and unknown external effects as separate checks.
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Nov 5, 2026
Images 2.6: set edit complexity explicitly
Omitted complexity defaults to high.
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