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AgiBot’s 110 humanoids set a Guinness dance recordMicrosoft open-sources Agensh for up to 1,024 coding agentsUK launches an AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI and AnthropicAnthropic reviews Mythos 5 actions in a UK AISI cyber testAWS open-sources Infinity, a runtime for waiting AI agentsBlock unveils Dessa, a speech model trained only on voiceClaude Enterprise unifies chat and Cowork in one ClaudeGoogle Cloud offers Anthropic-managed Claude on day zeroGoogle shows five interactive builds made with Gemini 4 ArgonMoonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token contextNVIDIA and Firebird line up 45,000 GPUs in KazakhstanNVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, a 4GB open modelOpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner on AI safety researchOpenAI keeps frontier model training off the live internetAgiBot’s 110 humanoids set a Guinness dance recordMicrosoft open-sources Agensh for up to 1,024 coding agentsUK launches an AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI and AnthropicAnthropic reviews Mythos 5 actions in a UK AISI cyber testAWS open-sources Infinity, a runtime for waiting AI agentsBlock unveils Dessa, a speech model trained only on voiceClaude Enterprise unifies chat and Cowork in one ClaudeGoogle Cloud offers Anthropic-managed Claude on day zeroGoogle shows five interactive builds made with Gemini 4 ArgonMoonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro with a 1 million token contextNVIDIA and Firebird line up 45,000 GPUs in KazakhstanNVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, a 4GB open modelOpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner on AI safety researchOpenAI keeps frontier model training off the live internet

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AgiBot’s 110 humanoids set a Guinness dance record

Global Times reported (Oct 25) that 110 AgiBot Expedition A3 humanoid robots set a Guinness World Records title for the most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously. The attempt was in Jinan, Shandong, on October 24. Global Times says the robots used AgiBot’s LinkBots cluster-control platform and ultra-wideband positioning, which the company describes as centimeter-level, and that the routine included repositioning, jumps, flips, and formation changes. AgiBot said the challenge was a test of coordinating that many robots while holding precise positions, and that the same robots are headed for cultural performances, public services, and research and education settings. Science and Technology Daily’s October 24 report said the routine ran 5 minutes 43 seconds with no errors, that Guinness adjudicator Hou Ying confirmed the count on site, and that the robots left their cases, calibrated, and followed the music without an engineer driving each one. Those performance details are from that report. Distinct from earlier single-robot humanoid demos.

Source: Global Times

Agents ·

Microsoft open-sources Agensh for up to 1,024 coding agents

Microsoft Research open-sourced (Oct 24) Agensh, a multi-agent harness with no central orchestrator, under the MIT license. Workers claim sub-tasks, share findings, check results, and merge progress on their own. A shared code workspace runs on Gitea, messages run on Mattermost, and shared context is adapted from DeLM. The experiments sit on GitHub Copilot’s per-agent loop. On the five hardest ProgramBench tasks, Microsoft says the mean final test-pass rate rose from 19.31% with 1 agent to 28.78% with 128 agents, about a 49% relative gain, using GPT-5.6 Sol at high reasoning, a six-hour budget, and no internet. On Pandoc, under the same budget, it reports 33.89% with 1 agent, 50.94% with 128, and 55.06% with 1,024. The September 22 preprint described the method; this release adds the harness, launch scripts, and a reproduction guide. Those scores are Microsoft’s. Distinct from that preprint.

Source: Microsoft Research (GitHub)

Security ·

UK launches an AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI and Anthropic

The UK Cabinet Office said (Oct 24) it is setting up the AI Biosecurity Lab, an independent nonprofit it calls the first organization dedicated to AI biosecurity. The government is putting in £100 million. OpenAI is committing £100 million in compute and model credits, plus trusted access to relevant models through its Rosalind Biodefense programme. Anthropic is committing up to £100 million in model credits, trusted model access, and technical support. The Cabinet Office says the lab will work with national biosecurity centers and the life sciences industry to detect biological threats earlier and to speed work on vaccines, treatments, and other medical countermeasures. Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research are research partners. The launch sits inside a National AI Biosecurity Initiative with the UK Health Security Agency, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and the lab will also work with the medicines regulator on emergency preparedness and the regulation of AI-designed medicines. Distinct from the AI Security Institute’s model-testing budget.

Source: UK Cabinet Office

Updated October 25, 2026

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I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.

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