5 things that happened while you were busy
1 Two PHP flaws are pushing websites offline around the world
Two critical vulnerabilities were found in PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites. The NSA advised taking down any system that can't be patched right away, so many sites have gone dark. OpenAI announced a coordinated disclosure effort and released a Codex skill that helps companies check whether they're exposed. Other attacks have been reported but not yet confirmed, and the story is still developing.
2 Anthropic's Claude Duet works on tasks for you, even when you're away
Claude Duet suggests tasks it can take on, keeps working on them while your phone is off, and comes back to you for the final call. It runs on Opus 5.5, which currently tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Current Claude users keep their memory, skills, and connected apps. The waitlist is open to Pro and Max subscribers in the US.
3 DeepSeek open-sources the engine behind its low prices
U.S. labs have been racing to match DeepSeek on price. Now DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the in-house software that runs its V4.1-Flash model, to help others cut compute costs. It supports both Nvidia and Huawei chips. It isn't the company's full system, but the code is on GitHub.
4 Mistral and ElevenLabs push voice agents forward
Mistral launched Voxtral 3, a set of speech models for transcription and voice output, plus an SDK built on LiveKit that lets you swap the LLM, voice, or language. Mistral also explains how to run the whole stack. ElevenLabs released two versions of Eleven Realtime: Mini for casual conversation and Max for harder reasoning. Its API works like OpenAI's Realtime API, so switching only means changing the endpoint and model name.
5 A former Apple Watch lead launches AI agents for chronic illness
Praneeta Pujari unveiled UniqueHuman, an iOS app whose agents help people log symptoms and track conditions such as migraines, long COVID, fibromyalgia, and POTS. It can use data from your wearable or your medical records. You can download it here.
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Why AI shopping agents could make things cost more
Agents can pay now. Visa and Mastercard rolled out payments for AI agents in April. PayPal, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Coinbase have since followed, so agents can now buy things on your behalf.
The ad problem. Retailers earn a lot from ads. Amazon reported $68B in ad revenue for 2025, and Walmart about $6B. But agents don't look at ads or click on them. To make up the gap, stores may raise prices or add new fees.
The walls are going up. In September, Amazon blocked Meta's Muse agent. Yelp, eBay, Zillow, Pizza Hut, Adidas, and several airlines have since done the same.
What to watch. Higher prices only become a real risk if websites let agents in. Right now, many big sites are closing the door. Which side wins will shape how much AI shopping actually costs you.
Uber's AI coding agent runs on tools built years before ChatGPT
The numbers. Uber's background coding agent, Minion, now ships about 15% of the company's production pull requests. Much of what makes it work was built before LLMs existed.
The old foundation. Minion runs on DevPods, cloud development machines Uber started using in 2017. An MCP Gateway turns the API contracts stored in Uber's service registry into tools the agent can use. And agents test their branches on Slate, a private staging setup, with Jaeger tracing.
Copy this for your team. Four basics make agents far more useful:
• Cloud workspaces with repos already cloned and caches warm
• All API contracts kept in one registry
• A safe way to test branches from end to end
The bigger point. As Gergely Orosz notes in this podcast episode, the companies getting the most from AI are the ones that already had developer platform teams.
😅 Fold Fail. Marques Brownlee showed how awkwardly apps load on Apple's $2,000 foldable iPhone (3.7M views).
✂ Less Is More. AI loves adding extra words, code, and features. This tip tells coding agents to skip unneeded UI text, inspired by Jakub's essay Less is more (1.5K bookmarks).
🤦 Can You Trust Anything? A viral 30-second clip shows how AI editing can make almost anything look real.
👔 Interview Advice. OpenAI engineering lead Wulfie Bain says don't sell yourself short, and shares four more tips for behavioral interviews (1.1K likes).
🧠 Why AI Codes So Fast. One engineer argues LLMs owe their speed to decades of hand-written open-source code, and would struggle in less-documented languages like COBOL (8K likes).
😟 The Experience Penalty. A video about developers with 20 years of experience struggling to get hired sparked a wider talk about long job searches and lost purpose (3.3K likes).
🎭 Parody Alert. Supabase's CEO joked that he ran 12 Claude agents for six hours to "reverse engineer" his own open-source company (10K likes).
😈 Revenge Bot? Bryan Johnson claimed an agent tracks his critics, then revealed it was a joke and told followers to go to bed on time (1.1M views).
🎮 Mission Passed. An indie hacker had Claude Code create a GTA mission in which CJ vibe-codes a startup and raises $10M (10K likes).
