Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, announced that as of 16 November the Open Science Framework will no longer accept new uploads of code, data or supplementary materials, though existing public files will remain online. Private files must be deleted or made public by users, or they will automatically become public after the deadline. Preregistration services and the platform's 14 preprint servers will continue operating unaffected.
Meta rolled out Muse, a new autonomous AI agent that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says learns a user's habits and goals to handle everyday tasks like online shopping, drafting documents, filling out forms, and answering emails. Users must grant Muse permission to access their apps and data, and Meta says a separate 'Sentinel' system monitors its actions to prevent it from acting without oversight. The tool is now live in the US on iOS, Android, and via the muse.ai website.
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI accelerated its own Navier-Stokes work after learning a rival team using Anthropic's Claude was nearing a solution, and suspects OpenAI's Codex tool may have drawn on his team's draft sessions. Buckmaster says he was offered two credit-sharing arrangements, both of which he rejected, including one that would have excluded his collaborator Levent Alpöge from a paper. OpenAI researcher Sebastien Bubeck and CEO Sam Altman have publicly disputed parts of Buckmaster's account, and OpenAI says it won't seek the $1 million prize tied to the problem.
UK-based AI consultant Grant de Swardt found his Claude Max subscription burning through tokens even when he wasn't using the service. Anthropic investigated and told him a compromised session key had been used to generate unauthorized OAuth tokens, allowing a third party to consume his allotted usage. The company suspended his account, wiped his active sessions, and issued a partial refund but could not explain how the credentials were obtained.
OpenAI released Images 2.5, an upgraded image model powering ChatGPT and the GPT-Image API, offering sharper detail, better subject preservation from reference photos, and more reliable multi-turn editing. The update ships alongside new ChatGPT features like Sketch, templates, and image comments, plus two developer-facing API models, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst.
Tristan Buckmaster of NYU announced preliminary proofs on a major unsolved math problem, developed with Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge using Codex and Claude models. Buckmaster alleges that details of their unpublished progress leaked to OpenAI, which then claimed to have produced a full proof using a large team and heavy computing resources shortly afterward. OpenAI's math lead Sebastian Bubeck disputes the characterization, calling the claims false and promising a fuller response.
A hobbyist developer documented an experiment attempting to bring advanced PC-speaker-style audio techniques, including PCM and PWM sample playback, to the ZX Spectrum's single-bit beeper. The main breakthrough was getting rudimentary multichannel sound, essentially chords, to play through the one-bit speaker, though the original goal of full PC-style playback fell short.
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday release addresses 966 vulnerabilities, its largest batch ever, including 105 rated Critical and two zero-days already being exploited in the wild. The count excludes 204 additional flaws Microsoft patched earlier in the month across products like Azure AI Language, Copilot Studio, and Entra ID.
Ahead of Apple's expected unveiling of Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12, leaker pdfu found references in watchOS 27 code pointing to a new Readiness app placed near Workout on the home screen, expanded strength-training logging with sets, reps, weight and equipment data, a new optical sensor system, and possible 128GB of storage tied to a new chip. The same leaker previously surfaced details on HomePod surround sound and iOS 27 camera features.
A team of developers has completed a full decompilation of Super Smash Bros Melee, converting Nintendo's 2001 GameCube fighter into readable C code that compiles into a binary identical to the original main.dol. The project, hosted on the doldecomp/melee GitHub page, took over six years and reportedly used OpenAI's Astra to help finish the work.
A developer built an experimental one-way projectional viewer that lets programmers toggle implementation detail out of view in source code without editing it back, using a Rebol phone-number parsing grammar as the test case. Rather than removing plumbing code like value-capturing and print statements, the tool simply elides them from the reading view so the underlying grammar structure stands out.
Anthropic has been ranked No. 1 on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 list, with recognition tied partly to Claude Code, a tool originally built internally for engineers to test AI models and assist with coding. The tool spread organically inside the company before Anthropic released it publicly in early 2025, later evolving into the broader Claude Cowork product launched in early 2026.
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