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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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OpenAI says Codex and Work now give more effective usage
On Day 12 of his update thread, OpenAI's Tibo said Codex and Work now deliver more effective usage by reusing context across subagents, keeping context cached longer, and improving request routing to raise cache hits.
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China proposes export controls on large models, AI agents and compute clusters, but says API services and already open-sourced tech aren't covered
A draft list from China's commerce and science ministries would add 23 AI technologies to its export control catalog. Officials say offering models through APIs, apps or SaaS isn't a technology export, and technology already open-sourced is excluded.
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VS Code 1.143 Makes the Copilot Harness the Default for New Sessions
VS Code 1.142 is gradually rolling out the Copilot harness as the default for new chat sessions, restores a read-only Ask agent, and splits the model picker into Copilot and BYOK tabs with per-model thinking level and context window settings.
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Reflection AI releases Beam 1.0, a 501B open coding model under Apache 2.0
Reflection AI has published the weights for Beam 1.0, a 501B mixture-of-experts model with 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context, under Apache 2.0. It also open-sourced Mirror CLI, the coding harness it trained Beam on.
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OpenCode makes GLM 5.3 Flash free for a limited time
OpenCode now offers GLM 5.3 Flash as a free Console model under the ID glm-5.3-flash-free. The docs call it a limited-time free tier with zero retention and no training on your data.
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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt: Specs, License, Runs on 24GB
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B MoE, 12B active, 1M context, vision) and Bolt 74B (from Super VL, 9B active, native 2-bit, ~24GB, still images/video) on October 15 under OpenMDW-1.1. On October 23 it added Bolt E4B—post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B, 8B total / 4B effective, text in and text out, 64K context. The “4GB” in the name is NVIDIA’s target memory envelope for its workloads; that is not the Q4_K_M weight file size (~6.18GB), and E4B is not a shrink of the 74B Bolt.
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MiniCPM-V 4.7 puts a 35B open multimodal model on phones, using about 3GB of memory
ModelBest and OpenBMB released MiniCPM-V 4.7 in 35B-A3B and 1B sizes under Apache-2.0. The company says the 35B MoE model activates about 3B parameters per token and runs on iPhone and iPad in about 3GB of memory.
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Grok Voice 3.0 tops the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech index, at the same $0.08 a minute
xAI's new speech-to-speech model scores 86.9 on Artificial Analysis's Speech-to-Speech Index, first place by xAI's account. The Voice Agent API price stays at $0.08 per minute, and agents on grok-voice-latest have already been switched over.
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Gemini 4 Argon is out globally — $2/$10 now, $4/$20 after November 30
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to paid API users and to Ultra and Pro subscribers in the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, and Antigravity. Intro pricing is $2 input / $10 output per million tokens until November 30, then $4 / $20. Context is a unified 1M tokens.
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GPT-6.1 Sol drops the long-context fee on subscriptions — and the default context jumps to 500k
In Codex and ChatGPT Work, GPT-6.1 Sol no longer adds a long-context fee when usage comes from your subscription. The default context also rises from 272k to 500k tokens. API pricing above 272K input is unchanged.
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Devin can bill GPT usage to your personal ChatGPT plan — the rest still draws from Devin
Cognition lets you link ChatGPT Go, Plus or Pro to Devin Pro, Max or Teams. GPT calls (except fast and priority) then come out of your ChatGPT quota; other models still use Devin. When ChatGPT runs out, Devin falls back to its own quota, then on-demand credits.
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ChatGPT Dot can now start work in Codex and follow up on your threads
Your ChatGPT Dot can open new Codex work and pick up existing threads, using your ChatGPT chats, Codex threads and automations to decide whether to continue or start fresh. The ChatGPT account posted it on X; Tibo shared the same upgrade later the same day.
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