Censys says it found more than 800 Artex deployments reachable online without a password. Artex is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool tied to attacks on South Korean finance firms and on ConnectWise. Researcher Silas Cutler said not every instance is run maliciously, and Artex says it will go closed-source for paid customers.
Cursor now builds and deploys live apps from a prompt: a cloud agent scaffolds the web app, spins up a Postgres database, configures auth behind Cursor SSO and provisions hosting, returning a shareable link. Anysphere says the feature is available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled, and GitLab support is coming.
Meta launches Spaces, sidebar breakout conversations where its Muse agent builds trackers, planners, and project boards tied to third-party apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on X that he had built a BBQ game and home control dashboard with it. Zuckerberg said in October that Muse agents had 10 million users in the U.S. and Canada.
Meta says it is rolling out specialized versions of its Muse Wonder models to Muse and Meta AI, adding Active Memory and Active Focus. Meta claims a 2.4x reduction in forgetting critical information and a 67% gain on everyday tasks with unexpected issues. The models score 90% on its Active Memory eval, up from 76%.
Ramp data show corporate AI token spend grew just 1.5% across August and September, down from 42% in July. Ramp economist Ara Kharazian credits price cuts: OpenAI halved API prices for GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in September, and Anthropic said cuts to Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 trimmed revenue growth by about $600 million.
CJ Avilla of Anthropic sends Claude Platform OpenTelemetry data to Sentry and finds an old project still consuming tokens, Sentry says. A workshop traces a Claude agent calling tools against a backend and database, with failed calls, retries, and final success in one trace. Sentry says this shows whether to fix the prompt, tool, or service.
Perplexity launches Teammates, persistent AI agents that take on ongoing work such as on-call shifts and ad campaigns, for Max subscribers on the web. Each teammate keeps one thread, carries over projects, skills and memory from Computer, and pages the user only when a decision is needed. Teammates run on the Max plan's monthly credit allotment, with a promotional free usage period.
Anthropic signed its first content licensing deal, a data and content agreement with the Associated Press completed just before the midterm elections, according to two people familiar with the matter. Anthropic declined to comment and the AP offered no on-record comment; financial terms and duration were not disclosed. The deal gives Claude attributed, real-time AP election data, which the company had lacked while publishers blocked its crawlers.
Dropbox is acquiring cloud storage company Tigris Data for $350 million, a deal the company says will support DBX Agent Cloud, its storage platform for businesses building AI agents. Dropbox says the transaction should close in the fourth quarter of 2026 and that it plans no headcount cuts.
Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which generates native 15-second clips and supports multi-turn conversational editing. Product manager Anish Nangia says the model costs $0.07 per second for 720p video, 30% less than Omni 1.1. It is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud.