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Vercel Flags Cross Projects, but the Trust Boundary Gets Wider
Vercel projects can now evaluate one another’s feature flags without copying SDK keys between them.
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Zest Moves Its Restaurant Picks Into a Text Thread, and Its AI Agent Can Book the Table
Restaurant discovery app Zest launched an AI concierge you reach by text. It suggests places based on where your card says you actually eat, and it can reserve through OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms.
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Update Firefox: An Open-Weight AI Model Turned Security Fixes Into Working Exploits
Epoch AI says the freely available GLM 5.3 model built working attacks on six recent Firefox releases for roughly $1,000 each by studying fixes that had not shipped yet. Mozilla has patched and is changing how it releases fixes.
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The Browsers Inside AI Coding Tools Had Holes, and Two Are Still Open
Researchers found flaws in the built-in browsers of Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop. The Codex and VS Code issues were still unpatched at publication, so be careful what local files you open.
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Governments Now Get 40% Off Claude With No Minimum Spend as the $1 Deal Ends
A new GSA agreement gives US government buyers 40% off Claude on a pay-for-what-you-use basis, with no minimum order. It replaces the $1-per-user promotion that runs out on October 31.
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OpenAI Wants a Friendlier Name for Data Centers
Calling a data center an “AI compute campus” will not lower its power bill, cool its servers, or settle a fight with the town next door.
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AI Executives May Be Solving the Wrong Problems
AI executives keep presenting automation as a way to make ordinary life easier.
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AI Shopping Agents Have Placed Only Several Hundred DoorDash Orders. Ever.
DoorDash’s CEO told analysts that outside AI agents have sent it only a few hundred orders in total, during a quarter when the company handled 993 million. Agent shopping may still come, but for now it barely registers.
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CrowdStrike: China-Linked Hackers Ran AI Agents on DeepSeek Against 200+ Organizations
CrowdStrike says a China-linked group used an AI agent framework running mostly on DeepSeek to target more than 200 organizations in 11 days. It confirmed follow-on hacking at nine of them.
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Check Your Machine: A Fake Claude Code Extension Sat in Cursor’s Marketplace for About 11 Hours
Tampered builds of the Claude Code extension, versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, were served through Cursor’s marketplace on October 29 and tried to plant an SSH backdoor. If you use Cursor on a Mac or Windows PC, run Cursor’s quick check.
Elsewhere
Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Consumer framing of conversational inbox/docs/notes
Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Same-day press on Live features + plan gating
Use your voice to get more done in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Primary Workspace launch for Gmail/Docs/Keep Live voice
Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center
Clear consumer explainer of PAIR (not a hardware router)
Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026
Lab blog bundling PAIR + local-agent one-clicks + inference gains
NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR)
Official product page for local multi-PC inference router beta
