ZeroSlop — October 31, 2026
Today: AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis,…; Community safety report and new protections for teens; Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
MarkTechPost
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they differ, plus 12 more tools. The post AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare appeared first on MarkT…
2. Community safety report and new protections for teens
OpenAI News
OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting….
3. Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
NVIDIA Blog
While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses on AI agents built b…
4. Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
MarkTechPost
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, with no change to the agent. The post Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%…
5. The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals
MIT Tech Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to …
6. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.
MIT Tech Review
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa sh…
7. Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
TechCrunch AI
The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll….
8. RFK Jr Opens the Floodgates on Experimental Peptides, Alarming Scientists
Futurism
“It does undermine the idea that you would test drugs for safety and effectiveness before they were widely made available.” The post RFK Jr Opens the Floodgates on Experimental Peptides, Alarming Scientists appeared first on Futurism ….
9. What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
The Guardian Tech
Using AI for roles from executive assistants to chiefs of staff, companies are boasting about doing more with less, creating tension with their human workers On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. He might ask Gwen, his execut…
10. After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one
The Guardian Tech
Voicing the main character in Black Tides Draga’s Wake led to me making the kinds of noises I haven’t made since my honeymoon but also one of my favourite moments as a father “I listen to you on the radio and I keep hearing your voice in my head!” Not a typical opening to a creative partnership, but…
11. Night Plane review – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip
The Guardian Tech
Liquid Static Studio; PC You take on the role of flight attendant in this clever and absorbing retro-style game that veers from daft horror spoof to genuinely disturbing There was always something creepy about the job-simulator genre. All those mindless automatons queueing up to use your bus, bar or…
12. Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing
404 Media
A newly released database of more than 25,000 anonymized calls from the Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line opens a rare window into psychedelic experiences outside of clinical settings….