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Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic announced that it will donate Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). According to its first-party information, MCP had previously also been donated to the same foundation; since December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms have adopted the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Subsequent reports stated that AAIF, under the Linux Foundation, announced on October 22, 2026 that it had accepted four projects: in addition to Anthropic's Agent Skills, these include OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv, and Alibaba's OpenSandbox; Agent Skills is a universal format that allows different agents to reuse business knowledge and workflows, and Anthropic made it public as an open standard in December 2025. Reports also stated that the donation includes the name, logo, the GitHub organization account agentskills, and the agentskills.io domain; going forward, a technical operations committee composed of core maintainers from multiple organizations will decide the development direction, with Anthropic's David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag serving as lead maintainers; the number of projects under AAIF has grown from three at its founding to ten.

DeepSeek integrates Harness with the web, App, and open platform teams

On October 16, 2026, DeepSeek established a product department, integrating its four teams—Harness, Web, App, and Platform—under the leadership of Cui Tianyi, who comes from a quantitative trading background, to oversee product, design, and R&D. Related reports noted that DeepSeek Harness was open-sourced under the MIT license on August 13, and by mid-October the repository had accumulated about 250,000 GitHub stars; the official website has posted job openings for two directions: AI product manager and Agent Harness. The reports also mentioned that Guo Daya, a core contributor to R1, left in March 2026 to join ByteDance Seed because he believed the Agent direction was not a high priority within DeepSeek. Currently, this integration is coordinated by Cui Tianyi, and there are no further developments with supporting evidence at this time.

OpenAI donates the Open Responses specification to AAIF

On October 22, 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced the addition of four hosted projects, among which OpenAI contributed Open Responses. The specification is based on the OpenAI Responses API and defines a shared schema and streaming events for applications to call models across vendors. With these additions, the total number of AAIF hosted projects increased from 3 at its founding in December 2025 to 10. According to subsequent reports, Databricks Model Serving and Vercel AI Gateway have already provided implementations of Open Responses. The specification is currently hosted by AAIF, with no further progress yet.

Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Anthropic announced that it will donate Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). According to its first-party information, MCP had previously also been donated to the same foundation; since December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms have adopted the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Subsequent reports stated that AAIF, under the Linux Foundation, announced on October 22, 2026 that it had accepted four projects: in addition to Anthropic's Agent Skills, these include OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv, and Alibaba's OpenSandbox; Agent Skills is a universal format that allows different agents to reuse business knowledge and workflows, and Anthropic made it public as an open standard in December 2025. Reports also stated that the donation includes the name, logo, the GitHub organization account agentskills, and the agentskills.io domain; going forward, a technical operations committee composed of core maintainers from multiple organizations will decide the development direction, with Anthropic's David Soria Parra and Mahesh Murag serving as lead maintainers; the number of projects under AAIF has grown from three at its founding to ten.

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Rohan Paul says Meta's AI agent Muse reached 10.2 million downloads in the US in 40 days

Rohan Paul offered the assessment that Meta's AI agent Muse reached 10.2 million downloads in the US within 40 days of launch. The data he cited also shows that historically only 11 apps have reached this pace, most of them mobile games. On retention, Muse's US 7-day retention rate is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, compared with competitor averages of 19% and 16%, respectively. On October 16, its daily active users reached 2.5 million, up 15% in a week, but still less than a quarter of its US downloads. At present, this assessment is seen only from Rohan Paul as a single source, with no other independent sources or official evidence to cross-verify it.

Rohan Paul says Meta's AI agent Muse reached 10.2 million US downloads in 40 days

Rohan Paul offered the assessment that Meta's AI agent Muse reached 10.2 million downloads in the US within 40 days of launch. The data he cited also shows that historically only 11 apps have reached this pace, most of them mobile games. On retention, Muse's US 7-day retention rate is 30% and its 14-day retention rate is 23%, compared with competitor averages of 19% and 16%, respectively. On October 16, its daily active users reached 2.5 million, up 15% in a week, but still less than a quarter of its US downloads. At present, this assessment is seen only from Rohan Paul as a single source, with no other independent sources or official evidence to cross-verify it.

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NVIDIA expands open-source Agent Toolkit and launches Agent Knowledge Foundation

On October 21, 2026, NVIDIA announced the expansion of its open-source Agent Toolkit and the launch of the Agent Knowledge Foundation. According to information published by the NVIDIA Newsroom that day, the expansion also adds the OpenShell secure runtime, the NemoClaw blueprint, and tools such as NeMo Relay and NeMo Compass. The Agent Knowledge Foundation includes CUDA-X libraries and the new Auto-Ontology library, and integrates the Nemotron Retriever and the Kumo family of open models, allowing enterprises to use it without migrating data or rebuilding existing workflows. The same source said that companies such as Palantir, Databricks, and Snowflake have already integrated the toolkit into their respective platforms. There are currently no subsequent independent developments.

Arena announces DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 tops the Agent Arena open-source leaderboard

On October 17, 2026, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, which the company says delivers stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs, achieving a Pareto improvement in performance and cost; it is now available on the official website, App, and API, and the model also launched on OpenRouter the same day. The company also announced that the Search and Fetch APIs are open to everyone, priced at $0.75 per 1,000 calls per endpoint, with calls made through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code, and Codex temporarily free, and billing starting at 16:00 UTC on October 31, 2026. On October 17, Thomas Wolf commented that DeepSeek called this a "minor update," yet Terminal-Bench 4.0 rose from 31.2 to 42.3. On October 19, Arena announced that the model, with a score of 1670, became the highest-ranked open-source model on Code Arena: WebDev. On October 20, OpenCode updated it to version 1017 in Go and Free; Unsloth released a GGUF that can run locally, with the 1-bit quantized version retaining about 88.2% accuracy and shrinking in size from 508GB to 250GB; Arena then announced that it topped the Agent Arena open-source model leaderboard.

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Manus releases 2.0 and personal Agent Cue

Manus released Manus 2.0, its first major version update since returning to independent operations. The desktop client was upgraded to Manus Studio, adding video timeline editing and Game Dev game development capabilities, and it launched Cue, a personal Agent app. According to QbitAI, Cue equips each Agent with its own email address, phone number, wallet, and computer, enabling it to send messages externally, make payments within a budget, answer calls on the user's behalf and leave call summaries, and multiple Agents can even be pulled into the same group chat to divide up work and collaborate. It is currently in an invite-code-only early access phase. After that, on October 1, Manus posted an invitation for users to use Game Dev to create a 3D racing game, with the racing car 3D models generated by partner Tripo AI. From October 5 to 6, Manus introduced the Manus Studio video editing features and how to use Video Editor, including adapting a single video into 8 different languages and generating release videos from Figma and code repositories. On October 7, Manus launched Game Dev, saying it lets users build and customize games without writing code and simplifies multiplayer game server setup.

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Anthropic Publicly Submits S-1 Registration Statement for Proposed IPO on Nasdaq

Anthropic publicly filed its Form S-1 registration statement on October 26, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The prospectus shows that its revenue grew from $41 million in 2023 to $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, with $11.6 billion in the second quarter alone and operating profit of $974 million; about 48% of first-half revenue flowed through Bedrock, Vertex and Azure Marketplace, and it listed NVIDIA compute commitments of up to $120.5 billion. Subsequently, on October 27, World Trade Securities estimated that its cash reserves could approach $400 billion by the end of 2027; in the cover letter of its IPO filing, Anthropic reiterated that Claude will not display ads, and on October 28 it acknowledged that its life sciences business lacks physical laboratory experience. On October 28, Goldman Sachs secured the lead-left seat on the prospectus, and TechCrunch reported that public shareholders have almost no say over board nominees. On October 29, the prospectus disclosed four previously unreported Agent safety incidents. On October 30, Reuters reported that its IPO fundraising cap could reach $100 billion; Steve Eisman accused the prospectus of deliberately omitting third-quarter data, and Anthropic has not yet responded.

GitHub releases Octoverse report

GitHub released the Octoverse report on October 28. The report states that 1.3 billion pull requests were merged over the past twelve months, averaging 3.5 million per day, triple the figure for the same period last year; more than 40% of pull requests began with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file received eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million. Another report states that the report disclosed that merged pull requests grew to 220 million per month in less than a year, commits grew to 7.38 billion per month, and the rate of new repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month.

Google releases the Gemini 4 Carbon model

On October 28, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it its strongest model, ranking first with 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, and scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench. The model targets long-horizon engineering tasks and was first opened to some cybersecurity defenders, then expanded through the Fairwind Program, and afterward made available to developers, enterprises, and consumers. On October 29, Arena.ai said Gemini 4 Carbon ranked second in Agent Arena with a net improvement of 16.2% and pushed the Pareto frontier forward; the same day, Yuchen Jin cited Artificial Analysis data to raise reservations, noting that the evaluation used the Antigravity CLI. On October 30, the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index showed it in first place with 59 points, 1 point higher than Claude Opus 5.5. On October 31, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared an early evaluation, saying it set a new SoTA on the WANDR benchmark.

Tencent releases Buddy One cross-application AI collaboration system

From October 29 to 30, 2026, at the 2026 Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent released the Buddy One cross-application AI collaboration system, connecting WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and ima to share a common Agent foundation, and simultaneously launched Tencent Drive to serve as unified storage. Leikeji reported that since its launch in March this year, WorkBuddy has cumulatively completed 9 billion task requests, and its enterprise edition has been deployed in more than 50 industries; the enterprise edition has also upgraded security and observability capabilities and released WorkBuddy Managed Agent (WMA), allowing enterprises to codify workflows as Skills and run them in the cloud 24/7, and the ecosystem has gathered more than 50,000 partners and developers and listed more than 200,000 Skills. In a TMTPost report, Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President Dowson Tong said that the biggest problem for enterprises deploying Agents is not that the models are not strong enough, but that there are too many breakpoints; Tencent Cloud CTO Wang Huixing summarized the deployment threshold as four gates: runnable, trustworthy, measurable, and easy to deploy, and said that the WorkBuddy enterprise edition has already covered half of China's Top 500 enterprises.

Infisical Completes a $40 Million Series B Funding Round

Infisical Completes a $40 Million Series B Funding Round at a $600 Million Valuation. According to a report by Unite.AI, the round was led by Elad Gil, with participation from Gradient and Y Combinator. The funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand the engineering and marketing teams, and build security infrastructure for AI agents. The report notes that its Agent Vault is currently labeled as a preview version, which attaches real credentials at the time a request is sent via a forward proxy, so that secrets do not enter the agent's environment, file system, or model context. There are currently no subsequent developments.