Newsletter Saturday, October 31, 2026
Daily update on the AI tools we track. Headings originate from public sources (X, GitHub, Hacker News); the Dutch commentary and summaries are automatically generated. Each heading links to our own news page on that topic; the source link is located next to it.
In brief
A backdoor has been found in a Claude Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace. In addition, Anthropic was hit by a hack resulting in access to employee details and internal messages. Furthermore, OpenAI and Anthropic have lowered their LLM prices by up to 80 percent, and a vulnerability in the MCP Hono node server has been patched. Finally, AI coding startup Cognition is considering a new funding round at a valuation of 70 to 80 billion dollars.
Codex, Cursor, OpenCode & Hermes
- Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-30
- Malicious Claude Code Extension Found in Cursor Marketplace · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-30
- What if you could reverse-engineer how the fastest-growing AI companies get their users? I used Treg's `/rea-growth` skill in Codex to analy · source: X · 2026-10-30
Claude Code & agents
- Why did OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80 percent · source: Reddit · 2026-10-30
- Another official Anthropic plugin worth adding to your Claude Code stack… especially if you’re building MCP servers mcp-server-dev includes · source: X · 2026-10-29
- Air plugin for IDE update: your own MCP servers, code notes for Claude Code in the terminal, GitHub Copilot and OpenRouter (and what we still owe you) · source: Reddit · 2026-10-27
- AI startup hacked Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
Cloudflare OS & self-hosted
- After 4 months I'm now ranked #1 globally for building and owning the most agent-native and agent ready platform ranked on @vercel , @Cloudf · source: X · 2026-10-30
- Running Self-Hosted AI Agents on Oxide · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
- $NET Cloudflare Expands AI-Powered Cybersecurity and Agent Infrastructure, Strengthening Its Platform Cloudflare continues expanding beyond · source: X · 2026-10-27
- I'm thinking of making a open source crisp alternative Basically you can have a simple but useful customer support platform But I'd want to · source: X · 2026-10-26
Agent-tooling & MCP
- (janitor/dependencies): fix MCP Hono node-server vulnerability · source: GitHub · 2026-10-30
- As models improve, some harness complexity becomes unnecessary. But infrastructure, trust, and efficiency matter more than ever I also share · source: X · 2026-10-30
Models & pricing
- Cross-Model LLM Pricing API · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
- Agents are the most expensive way to repeat yourself! (by turn 4 of a simple loop, 89% of the prompt is stuff the model already read) LLM AP · source: X · 2026-10-30
- Plug in your own token counts and compare 62 models here: https://aiagentstore.ai/ai-models/llm-api-pricing Follow @AIAgentStore for a daily · source: X · 2026-10-29
- https://ModelAnalysis.si is a solid newer tool for LLM pricing, cost calculators, latency, and aggregating public benchmarks like LMSYS Elo · source: X · 2026-10-30
Skills & plugins
- AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-30
- Open-source dash platform for the Ola S1 Pro Gen 1: swappable themes, plugins, CAN reference and an AI-agent skill (early WIP) · source: Reddit · 2026-10-30
- To set this in your Grok Bot, open it and paste: Save as skill "Daily X Growth": 80% early high-value replies to viral indie/SaaS/AI posts. · source: X · 2026-10-29
Repos, releases & updates
- Sorry Harvey! I Made a Free Open-Source Alternative to Your Overpriced Legal AI · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
- Open Source or Custom in Enterprise AI Systems? · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
- Your AI coding agent forgets everything when the session ends. Today's fastest-rising AI repo fixes that, and it got 848 GitHub stars in 24 · source: X · 2026-10-30
- Show HN: Fengarde–OCSF-native open-source SIEM with local AI triage (Apache-2.0) · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
Funding & market
- AI coding startup Cognition is weighing a new funding round at a $70 billion to $80 billion valuation · source: Reddit · 2026-10-29
- Startup Nature in 2026: What Makes a Startup Successful? 🔹Innovation drives business growth. 🔹 Scalability creates new opportunities. 🔹 AI i · source: X · 2026-10-30
- S.Korea AI chip startup raises $620M at a $2.9B valuation · source: Hacker News · 2026-10-29
- An AI startup raises $50 million. Twitter: "The future is here!" 🚀 But ask three questions: What's the revenue? Are customers staying? Can t · source: X · 2026-10-26