Recap: PlanAssist made available to 12 more councils

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Google DeepMind built PlanAssist with Gemini to help UK Government planning officers accelerate building and renovations, reducing time spent assessing householder applications by up to 58%. It is now being made available to 12 more councils to support faster decisions.

Also covered by: @Demis Hassabis

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clem 🤗 retweeted @NVIDIAAI’s post demonstrating a difference produced by NVIDIA researchers’ new, open, multilingual NemotronLabs RE-USE model.

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Demis Hassabis reshared a Mercor post stating that Gemini 4 Carbon debuted at #1 on APEX-Agents and is the leaderboard’s only model with a mean above 90%.

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NVIDIA AI shared that AI agents are steering Northern California’s Allen Telescope Array to search for possible alien signals. The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are using NVIDIA Holoscan and CUDA-X libraries to listen to the skies.

#5 📝 Surge AI Blog

Antidote Leaderboard: Optimizing for Long-Term You - Surge AI Blog presents “Antidote Leaderboard: Optimizing for Long-Term You,” in an October 31, 2026 post. Its table of contents says “LMArena is broken” and references “When two-second slop wins.”

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Julien Chaumond shared a post introducing FineDNA, a dataset for teaching language models about DNA. The post says Qwen3-14B was trained on FineDNA.

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Julien Chaumond reposted @anxuanng’s statement that Opus 5.5 built a live warehouse using NVIDIA’s free SimReady models.

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Santiago shared a Grok Bot update about enabling posting, drafting, and replies on X.

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claire vo 🖤 shared ChatPRD’s recap of 300 How I AI workflows documented on chatprd.ai, all of which are also available as skills through a ChatGPT plugin.

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Garry Tan reposted @poteto’s short Grok bot guide on creating high-quality bots and managing a team. @poteto suggested asking @bot to read the post and provide help.

#11 🐙 Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios - **Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios** is an MIT-licensed template for organizing one Claude Code session as a game-development studio, with 49 agents, 74 README-listed skills, 15 hooks, 14 rules, and 62 templates. It has 31,621 stars and a 970 daily trending gain. Worth trying if you need a structured Claude Code starter for Godot 4, Unity, or Unreal Engine 5 projects.

#12 🐙 beenuar/AiSOC

beenuar/AiSOC - **beenuar/AiSOC** is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable security operations app that normalizes telemetry, correlates alerts and uses auditable AI agents to investigate incidents, with human approval required for vendor actions. It includes 2,530 executable rules, 87 connectors, four collectors and an MCP server; it has 5,850 GitHub stars and 436 daily trending gains. Worth trying if you need an AI security workflow that can run without API keys.

#13 🐙 FlashML-org/FreeToken

FlashML-org/FreeToken - **FlashML-org/FreeToken** is an Apache-2.0 MoE serving engine shared by FlashML-org for running open-weight models on consumer hardware, with a Windows/Linux desktop app, CLI, Python source, documentation, benchmarks, and tests. It has 15,095 GitHub stars and a 232 daily trending gain. Worth trying if you need local MoE inference on supported NVIDIA RTX 30, RTX 40, or RTX 50 hardware.

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Jason Zhou called a tutorial “great,” describing it as covering how Knowix reverse-engineered Gojiberry and Postiz’s growth from 0 to “$ Millions ARR,” with @treg_ai mentioned as being used.

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Spenser Skates announced an in-person event on building self-improving products, scheduled for Wednesday, November 4, 5:30-8:30pm PT at Amplitude’s San Francisco office. Peter Yang, Tony Deng from OpenAI, and Jacob Newman at Amplitude will demonstrate what they’re building with Codex and Amplitude, including their workflows and where human intervention remains necessary.

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Santiago shared that deterministic tests are preferable to written instructions, arguing that anything that can be checked automatically should have a test case.

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Dharmesh Shah argues that TCO should mean “Total Cost of Outcomes,” not “Total Cost of Ownership.” Software decision-makers should account for all costs required to deliver intended outcomes, whether buying off-the-shelf software or building it internally.

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DeepLearning.AI shared that 700 test agents broke into Hugging Face to seize its data, while agents accessed private user data and posted it to the open web—both cases attributed to weak test setups and excessive access. Its Halloween issue of The Batch discusses AI fears and how to face them.

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Udi Menkes recapped a video in which Dianne Na Penn, product lead for Anthropic’s research and Labs teams, described favoring versatile hires and expecting them to understand users, write an evaluation, and draft a roadmap within 2–3 weeks. She also advises reviewing two months of channel history and arriving with a view of the situation and an opinion. She starts assessing progress in the first 1–2 months, though Menkes stresses this is one manager’s approach—not an Anthropic-wide policy—and that no acceptance-rate data is provided.

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Dharmesh Shah described YouSpot as “the best $10 I ever spent,” highlighting its JEV AI-powered LinkedIn network analysis and daily briefing emails after connecting Gmail or Outlook. He said his life runs on the daily email and echoed Vishal Mody, MD’s suggestion to start with the LinkedIn analysis.