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Valve's Answer to AI Slop and Clone Games on Steam: We Won't Police Developers' Tools
At Steam Indie Connect in Korea, Valve staff addressed AI slop and clone games head-on: no gatekeeping on AI tools, and the best defense against clones is community and steady updates.
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Is DeepSeek Banned in the US? What the New DHS Order Covers
DeepSeek is not banned across the United States. A DHS order published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2026 applies to federal civilian executive branch agencies: it excludes DeepSeek products from their procurements and requires removal of DeepSeek products, and third-party products built on DeepSeek implementations, from their IT systems. National security systems are outside its scope; agencies can request exceptions. Texas, New York and Australia have separate rules for government devices; Italy's privacy regulator restricted the chatbot's processing of Italian users' data in 2025.
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Did Claude Opus 5.5 Get Nerfed? What the Data Shows So Far
Since late September, users on Reddit, X and GitHub have said Claude Opus 5.5 got worse after launch and drains usage limits faster. BridgeBench's third-party NerfBench has kept every Opus 5.5 run inside its normal-variance band, and its October 16 run put the model at 105.8% of launch. Anthropic hadn't responded publicly as of October 21, Beijing time.
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Which Models GitHub Copilot Offers Right Now, and What Each One Costs
A plan-by-plan list of GitHub Copilot models, how AI Credits pricing works, and which models retired on October 2 and October 19 or retire on November 16.
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humans& Launches Ampersand v0.1, a Model Built for Collaboration, With an API
humans& introduced Ampersand v0.1 and published API docs; the company says simulated users got more done with it than with Fable and other frontier models.
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Cline Desktop Adds a Goal Plugin That Waits for Verified Completion
Cline announced a Goal plugin for Cline Desktop. Install it from the Marketplace, run /goal, and an afterRun hook nudges verification; only then can mark_goal_complete finish the task. Plugins are TypeScript files that can add slash commands, custom tools, and lifecycle hooks.
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WSJ Reviews Anthropic Draft S-1: H1 Revenue, Losses and Cloud Commitments
The Wall Street Journal reviewed an Anthropic draft S-1, and Investing.com relayed the figures: about $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss largely from non-cash financing adjustments, and roughly $450 billion in noncancelable cloud compute agreements. Anthropic's only related public note remains its June 1, 2026 Rule 135 confidential draft S-1 notice; Anthropic has not itself published these H1 numbers.
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Google Open-Sources TorchTPU So PyTorch Runs Natively on TPUs
At PyTorch Conference 2026, Google open-sourced TorchTPU with Meta, a native PyTorch stack for Google TPUs. Teams can point models at a tpu device and use familiar tools such as vLLM, SGLang, and Hugging Face Transformers.
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ChatGPT Adds Locked Chats Behind a PIN or Biometrics
ChatGPT Locked Chats move selected conversations out of regular history and search. Unlock with a PIN on web and desktop, or a PIN, Face ID, Touch ID or device unlock on supported mobile devices. Resetting the PIN permanently deletes locked chats; changing the PIN does not.
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OpenAI Is Buying Orchestra Bio to Fold It Into Rosalind
OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio, a drug-development coordination platform, and bringing the team and technology into Rosalind alongside GPT-Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench. The deal amount was not disclosed.
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OpenAI Adds Optional 12-Hour Prompt Caching on the Responses API
OpenAI's Responses API can now keep a prompt cache for 12 hours. Cache writes cost 2.5× input for that lifetime, versus 1.25× for the default 30 minutes, and cache hits still use the lower cached-input rate.
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Antigravity Will Remove Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b on November 2
Google's Antigravity Models page marks Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b as removed on November 2, 2026. Gemini 3.1 Pro, 3.7 Flash and 3.6 Flash are listed for Enterprise only, while Gemini 3.8 Flash is on every plan.
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Perplexity Computer Can Now Run Fully Locally on a Mac
Perplexity Computer now runs both its agent and its model on a Mac. Local tasks use PPLX Pro and cost no Computer credits, and Hybrid splits complex work between cloud and local models.
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