Claude Code can now hand long jobs to MCP servers as tasks and keep working
MCP tasks are in public beta in the Claude Code CLI from v2.1.304. A server runs the job, Claude carries on, and the task can ask you questions while it runs.
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MCP tasks are in public beta in the Claude Code CLI from v2.1.304. A server runs the job, Claude carries on, and the task can ask you questions while it runs.
In preview for GitHub Enterprise Cloud, it blocks malware, risky versions, new install scripts and too-fresh npm packages before agents or CI install them.
OpenAI says frontier RL runs now use a cached offline web, after agent red-teams found microVM escapes, internet paths and covert channels.
Grok Bot tutorial · Part 15 of 22
The fifteenth tutorial is the bad day: an unreachable computer, the least destructive fix first, and what Update, Recover, and Reset keep.
The php-rust README claims parity on WordPress core tests, Composer and Doctrine. It is still slower than PHP, and recent commits list Claude as co-author.
After five years at 0.x, Dagger 1.0 is in beta with official modules, per-test results, dev shells and GitHub checks. Expect CLI and config breaking changes.
Gary King and Steven Worthington compared 134 rapidPeer reviews with Claude Opus 4.8 reviews. AI won 132 of 132 decided pairs and 26 of 30 editor picks.
Postgres committer Robert Haas says LLM bug reports pushed back-patch commits up over 60% this year and pulled review time from the PostgreSQL 19 release.
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro and a 2-3x faster Highspeed variant are out today. The full weights are promised by 4 November, and the K2 models are being retired.
Epic's 2026 AI MegaJam runs 12 to 15 November. Teams of up to five people and any number of AI agents build an Unreal Engine or UEFN game for cash prizes.
Unit 42 says an attacker it calls BUGSTER used Hermes Agent, DeepSeek V4 and a Cursor setup with safety off to hit Indian universities and plan VoIP fraud.
The Fifth Circuit vacated Judge Wingate's injunction on Mississippi's H.B. 1193, citing a TRO with invented facts and a fake case, and moved it to a new judge.
fastembed-rs 7.4.0 puts ONNX Runtime behind a default onnx feature and splits qwen3 into text and VL features. Default builds are unchanged.
Pillow 13.0.0 lists 38 security fixes, two rated critical, including EPS argument injection and a JPEG bug Anthropic found with Claude. Upgrade and rebuild.
Regeringskansliet will block ChatGPT and Claude on work computers from 26 October and point staff to approved tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Ekot reports.
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image and its open-weights sibling Klein: 4K output, 10 references, box-level edits, per-image prices and what users say.
Version 2.0 replaces DeepSWE with Cognition's FrontierCode. Claude Code with Opus 5.5 scores 61.7; Codex with GPT-6.1 Sol posts 54.1 at about $1.51 a task.
Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, is live in Japan on iOS, Android and muse.ai. Mercari, Money Forward ME and Ticket Pia links are still being built.
IBM Research's vLLM-Hook MIA plugin captures attention and activations, and steers them, inside vLLM 0.29 with CUDA graphs left on. Overhead is a few percent.
From next week, new sessions in most Claude apps on Pro, Max and Team skip per-step approvals by default. Here is where Manual lives and who stays opt-in.
Google's experimental gemini-api CLI is a single Go binary that writes images, audio and video to disk and returns only the path. Apache 2.0, in beta.
MAI-DxO solved 83% of hard NEJM cases on Microsoft's own benchmark against 22% to 36% for physicians. A Beth Israel study will test it on real patients.
Dynamo 1.6.0 adds pluggable router queues, multi-replica Rust EPP and coding-agent session routing. One default change touches Claude Code traffic.
Canva trained Craft from scratch for layouts and lettering in 55 languages. It is live in Canva and in a preview Connect API endpoint that spends AI credits.