The Hackening...

AI tools are making cyberattacks faster and easier, while many systems remain vulnerable. Recent incidents show that even essential websites and services can be affected. Organizations need stronger defenses and faster ways to find and fix security flaws.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-hackening

Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents...

AI agents are already being used in cyberattacks, including attacks on banks. The author says current AI models—not just future advanced ones—need stronger oversight. He warns that attacks will worsen while companies and regulators fail to take responsibility.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-news-us-banks-are-taking

Build Your Own Reasoning Model: A Full Video Course...

Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models

Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed — Latent Space...

Kimi K3.1 Pro is a large model that appears to narrow the gap with leading closed models, especially on agent tasks. Independent tests show strong results, but performance varies by task and comparisons have limitations. Its API launched first, while the model weights were not yet available.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://latent.space/p/ainews-kimi-31/

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to put CoreWeave back together again...

CoreWeave’s stock has fallen sharply over the past six months. It briefly rose after people praised it on TV.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-the-kings-horses-and-all-the

Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO...

Modal combines computing capacity from many customers and scales it up or down as needed, rather than selling fixed GPU bundles. It is expanding from serverless functions into sandboxes and other tools that help build AI applications. Its goal is to provide flexible building blocks for new kinds of software.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://latent.space/p/modal-d/

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation...

Anthropic is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation. The goal is to keep it open, community-led, and vendor-neutral. Simon Willison had predicted this move last December.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/22/donating-agent-skills/