ZeroSlop — October 25, 2026
Today: Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans.…; Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how…; Bambu Lab teases its mysterious H3C tool changer 3D…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
TechCrunch AI
A new study found Grok’s AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races….
2. Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company
The Guardian Tech
Anthropic claims AI will shift how work gets done and labor demand – but some experts are skeptical of the vision Last year, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of co…
3. Bambu Lab teases its mysterious H3C tool changer 3D printer
Tom’s Hardware
Bambu Lab’s long-awaited tool changer H3C launches Nov. 3, 2026….
4. SpaceX In Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites For New Network
Slashdot
SpaceX is reportedly seeking access to at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile as a fourth nationwide wireless carrier. “We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there’s broad-based connectivity anywhere that SpaceX and Starlink are al…
5. Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Systems against Recent Cybersecurity Threats
MarkTechPost
Cognition released the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, 3 MIT-licensed agent skills that inventory, patch and test PHP, Node.js and self-managed GitLab deployments hit by this week’s critical RCE flaws, then open 1 PR per repo. The post Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Syste…
6. Stateful Agentic Engineering Copilots with Letta: Core Memory, Shared State, Semantic Retrieval, Custom Tools, Streaming, and Portable Agent Workflows
MarkTechPost
Discover how to extend agentic memory beyond basic prompts by building a stateful engineering copilot with Letta. This comprehensive guide covers inspectable core memory, archival vector retrieval, multi-agent shared state, custom tools, and portable workflows. The post Stateful Agentic Engineering …
7. NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
MarkTechPost
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots, targeting about 4GB of VRAM on RTX and Jetson. The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voic…
8. Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms
MarkTechPost
Kyutai released CADRE, a family of 7 open causal diffusion video autoencoders for interactive world models. World models built on CADRE run at 20 fps on 1 H100 and react in under 230 ms. The post Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms appeared first on MarkTechPost ….
9. Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
MarkTechPost
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter, 104B-active MoE model with 1M-token context. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and open weights arrive by Nov 4, 2026. The post Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model …
10. The Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open Source
EFF Updates
If you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week — and all your nerdiest friends were talking about “The Vulnerability Apocalypse” and this thing called PHP that powers nearly 70% of the websites on the internet . You may find…
11. The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Wired AI
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began….
12. ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
The Guardian Tech
After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’ Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weakne…