ZeroSlop — November 1, 2026
Today: DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker…; Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding…; Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent
MarkTechPost
DeepSeek released dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that turns GitHub and Feishu requests into parallel worker sessions. In DeepSeek’s own simulation, p95 task completion fell to 15.7 minutes from 29.5 minutes. The post DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Ag…
2. Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
MarkTechPost
Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. On Factory’s own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scores 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per passed task. The post Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness B…
3. Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use
MarkTechPost
Vercel Labs released agent-desktop, an Apache-2.0 Rust CLI that gives any AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux by reading OS accessibility trees and acting on stable refs instead of pixels. The post Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use appeared first on MarkTech…
4. An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
Wired AI
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs….
5. The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized
The Guardian Tech
The tech mogul’s midterm donations backing Republicans have made him the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history Elon Musk has poured so much money into US politics this midterms election cycle that his donations could fund half a dozen SpaceX rocket launches or buy thousands of Te…
6. Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry
Slashdot
Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren’t are merely “pretending.”
Stirrup deactivated his social media account shortly after (though his p…
7. French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Slashdot
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:
France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, me…
8. NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope
Slashdot
The Hubble Space Telescope “will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s,” reports Ars Technica.
So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) “asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.”
Specifically, NASA is…
9. Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
Slashdot
Earlier The Drive reported a police chief “had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department’s notice the city was canceling its service. “But in other instances Flock’s gone and reinsta…
10. Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’
Slashdot
Meta’s smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey “are requesting that Meta provide more information before Thanksgiving on whether it conducted detailed human rights due diligence and safety testing on the pr…
11. Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon
MarkTechPost
Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon appeared first on MarkTechPost ….
12. Rewriting Copyright Law for Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
EFF Updates
In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath showdown between authors and publishers fighting for a cut of Big Tech company profits. But this fight is act…