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Accenture says the claims that a staffer's personal Claude agent ran on a Pentagon system were investigated and found without merit.
An Accenture spokesperson, statement to WIRED (29 October 2026) ·
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Accenture told WIRED the allegations were thoroughly and independently investigated and found to be without merit.
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a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent
When pressed, Accenture didn’t offer clarification on who conducted the investigation, or dispute that there had been what could be characterized as an incident.
Mistral says Large 4 is the best open-weight model for coding.
Mistral AI, release post for the Mistral Large 4 open weights (mistral.ai, 29 October 2026) ·
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Mistral says Large 4 ranks as the best open-weight model for coding.
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On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, Mistral Large 4 scores 48%, effectively tied with the leading open-weight model, GLM-5.3, while using 47% fewer tokens per task on average.
On Cognition's private FrontierCode 2.0 benchmark, which assesses end-to-end code quality and whether a repository maintainer would merge the agent's change, Mistral Large 4 leads with a score of 19.7%.
On Terminal-Bench 4.0, Mistral Large 4 improved by 13 percentage points to 41% compared to its public preview, taking the lead among open-weight models
Mistral reports 48% on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, which it calls effectively tied with Zhipu's GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task on average.
Epoch AI says an open-weight model broke six Firefox releases for about $1,000 each.
Epoch AI, report on open-weight models and the patch gap (epoch.ai, 29 October 2026) ·
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Epoch AI says GLM 5.3 reliably compromised six recent Firefox releases for about $1,000 each.
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In our experiments, an open-weight model reliably exploited the "patch gap" to compromise six recent Firefox releases, costing about $1,000 each to carry out
In all of our compromises of recent Firefox releases, GLM 5.3 also found and used an unpublished vulnerability in conjunction with those found via the patch gap.
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