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Anthropic to put 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund

Anthropic will place 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund ahead of its IPO.

Proofpoint agreed to acquire Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash, or $49.75 per share.

DeepSeek launched Search and Fetch APIs priced at $0.75 per 1000 successful requests.

Anthropic's red team said it built a self-replicating AI worm that spread across 15 smart TVs.

Together researchers proposed HybridAgents, reporting a 10.4% gain over frontier LLM agents across 11 benchmarks.

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Proofpoint to acquire Varonis for $6.3B

Proofpoint, owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, will acquire Israeli information security firm Varonis Systems for about $6.3 billion in cash, or $49.75 per share, a 52% premium over the June 22 close. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027, reflecting rising corporate security spending amid cybercrime and AI-driven data theft.

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  1. Anthropic · will place 5% of its equity in a public-interest fund ahead of its IPO, with the board able to add 2% each time its value rises 50%; including founder pledges and employee matching, about 20% of equity goes to public-interest uses.

  2. HybridAgents · a new paper introduces hybrid reasoning agents that switch between latent-space reasoning and text interaction, improving performance by 10.4% over frontier LLM agents across 3 model scales and 11 benchmarks.

  3. Anthropic · says its red team built a malicious AI program that spread autonomously across 15 internet-connected smart TVs and kept working, warning such AI worms are hard to stop because IoT devices are poorly secured.

  4. Google · Germany's Aachen Regional Court, following a Munich ruling, held Google liable for an AI overview that wrongly attributed criminal offenses to a doctor; Google appealed the earlier case and then quietly settled.

  5. Dawning 8000 · China showcased the physical system of its first homegrown 100,000-card AI supercluster, Dawning 8000 (Dengfeng), whose key breakthrough is unifying supercomputing and AI computing on one architecture.

  6. OpenAI · reportedly claimed on October 6 that AI proved the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, a result mathematician Alex Kontorovich said would warrant a Fields Medal; mathematicians then proved a form of the generalized Riemann hypothesis with AI assistance.

  7. DeepSeek · launches Search and Fetch APIs giving agents and RAG applications live web content, priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.

  8. Proofpoint · agrees to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash, or $49.75 per share, a 52% premium to its June 22 close, with the deal expected to close in the first half of 2027.

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Voices

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  1. Jack Clark · says roughly 20% of all Anthropic equity will be dedicated to the public good, with funds used to share AI's benefits and address its risks.

  2. Bindu Reddy · argues NeoCloud providers like CoreWeave signed compute contracts at depressed rates and should renegotiate them or go out of business.

  3. Ethan Mollick · argues developers will become a small part of total token usage, and that higher-intelligence models pay off greatly on long-running, hard-to-verify tasks.

  4. Anthropic · announces it is committing part of its shares to the new wholly owned Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, starting at 5% and rising by up to 2% for every 50% increase in company value.

  5. Ethan Mollick · argues that blocking AI agents is not a robust strategy in an era when AIs can use your computer on your behalf.

  6. Paul Graham · argues publishing on paywalled sites makes content invisible, and what AIs cannot find effectively does not exist, a trend that will only strengthen.

  7. Paul Graham · says the situation of teams under 48-hour attacks who need agents running around the clock is how things will be for the foreseeable future.

  8. Ethan Mollick · calls Odyssey's placing of a fruit fly brain inside its frontier world model Odyssey-3, flying through imagined simulated worlds, both interesting and unsettling.

  9. Bindu Reddy · says DeepSeek's newly released model tops the open-source leaderboard, beats Muse Wonder, Haiku and Luna, and has the lowest cost per task.

  10. 硅谷王川 Chuan · argues that people who did not live through the 2000 dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis are not qualified to comment on today's AI bubble.

  11. Brett Adcock · says Hark Labs aims to be the operating system for your life, making every day easier, and it will keep doing more and more.

  12. Gorden Sun · says DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 outperforms GPT 5.6 Sol in both capability and speed, leaving OpenAI squeezed from both sides.

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Launches

PH · HN · 13

Inbox Zero

An open-source, keyboard-first email client for Gmail and Outlook users.

▲ 117 · Product Hunt · 6 comments ·

shim-cli

An open-source local proxy for developers to see and mask what coding agents send.

▲ 93 · Product Hunt · 5 comments ·

3AM Super Intelligence

AI on-call engineer that finds root causes and fixes production incidents with one tap.

▲ 91 · Product Hunt · 8 comments ·

MyLens

AI that gives each attendee a private live 1-1 presentation and answers their questions.

▲ 91 · Product Hunt · 18 comments ·

Tomo for ChatGPT

Generates Duolingo-style game courses on any topic inside ChatGPT.

▲ 82 · Product Hunt · 3 comments ·

Gravity Notes

A single-list notes app that lets AI agents and scripts read and write your notes.

▲ 80 · Product Hunt · 7 comments ·

Openbroca

Lightweight native Swift AI dictation for Mac, keeping your tone with 28-language translation.

▲ 80 · Product Hunt · 5 comments ·

Sphinx

A Git hook that quizzes you on your AI-generated code before you ship it to production.

▲ 48 · Show HN · 11 comments ·

500 Clocks

A 6.3 MB self-contained HTML page showcasing 500 clocks built by Claude Opus 5.5.

▲ 16 · Show HN · 3 comments ·

Emochi

Turns voice notes into a generative character for private emotional self-reflection

▲ 157 · Product Hunt · 16 comments ·

Parrot

Free open-source Mac meeting assistant that transcribes on device and surfaces answers during calls.

▲ 82 · Product Hunt · 8 comments ·

Salience

Turns your server and CDN data into a live view of every website request and response.

▲ 80 · Product Hunt · 2 comments ·

Open Source

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Local AI job application framework that evaluates postings, tailors CVs, writes cover letters and preps interviews.

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Indexes code, docs, logs and PDFs for AI search and RAG using 40x fewer tokens than grep.

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Agent harness performance optimization system with skills, memory and security for coding agents.

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Turns any AI agent into an AI scientist with 177 validated skills and 100+ scientific databases.

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Runs and coordinates a fleet of coding agents with your own subscription across desktop, mobile and remote runtime.

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Makes all software agent-native, with a CLI-Hub entry point.

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Open source coding agent for developers.

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Agent harness to deploy multi-agent swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows and build conversational AI systems.

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Terminal agentic coding tool that understands your codebase and handles coding and git tasks via natural language.

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Long-term memory for agent coding CLIs, easing handoff between agent vendors.

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Model Ranking · 24 h

2026-10-18 UTC
01DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · 3.04T tokens15.7%▲5
02DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · 2.62T tokens13.6%▼1
03GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai · 1.43T tokens7.4%▼1
04MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi · 1.04T tokens5.4%▼1
05Hy4 previewTencent · 845.6B tokens4.4%▼1
06Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · 821.5B tokens4.3%▼1
07Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA · 789.6B tokens4.1%▲31
08GPT-6 LunaOpenAI · 644.4B tokens3.3%▼1
09DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek · 608.2B tokens3.1%—
10GLM 5.3Z.ai · 525.1B tokens2.7%▼2

New Models

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek · 1.0M ctx · 10/17$0.15 / $0.60
GlimpseElorian · 262.1k ctx · 10/17$0.60 / $3.00
Xing4.0 29B A4B (free)XingChen · 262.1k ctx · 10/16$0.00 / $0.00
Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection · 1.0M ctx · 10/16$1.00 / $3.00
Moondream 3 PreviewMoondream · 32.0k ctx · 10/15$0.30 / $2.50
Moondream 3.1Moondream · 32.0k ctx · 10/15$0.30 / $2.50
Muse Spark OpenMeta · 1.0M ctx · 10/15$1.25 / $4.25
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA · 1.0M ctx · 10/15$0.15 / $0.50
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)NVIDIA · 1.0M ctx · 10/15$0.00 / $0.00
Pareto 26.10unbiased · 1.0M ctx · 10/15$0.80 / $3.20

Deals

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