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Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal model with 816 billion parameters (42 billion active) and a 1 million token context window. It’s the first model of its class designed to run on a pair of Mac Studio units with the M5 Ultra chip, without relying on the cloud.

Libreboot 26.10 arrived on October 15, 2026, with the project’s first full UEFI support, compatible with Windows. The Ominous Olive release also imports 233 Intel and AMD Chromebooks from MrChromebox and debuts an official policy against using AI in its development.

OpenCode 2.0 turns the client/server setup that only power users used before into the default mode: a single background process now serves the TUI, the web client, and the desktop app. The update also redesigns the API from scratch and adds code mode, a JavaScript interpreter that lets the agent chain calls to MCP servers in a single run.

Z.ai introduced GLM Legal, a variant of its GLM model family built for legal tasks like contract drafting and regulatory queries. The company promises fewer citation hallucinations, the problem that has already gotten lawyers sanctioned for using generic AI in real courtrooms.

Since version 0.157.0, opening a Codex CLI session activates a persistent daemon that auto-updates every hour and survives closing the terminal. GitHub issue #48195 asks for that behavior to be opt-in, while several developers confirm failures when trying to fully disable it.