- Kimi continues to challenge the frontier with K3.1 Pro
- The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
- Let AI sign in without sharing your passwords
- Canva’s first in-house image model climbs the ranks
Kimi continues to challenge the frontier with K3.1 Pro
Image source: MoonshotThe Rundown: Chinese AI lab Moonshot just introduced Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgrade to its July K3 model that it says is “matching the strongest proprietary models” on key benchmarks, with free-to-download weights set to come by Nov. 4.The details: - Artificial Analysis placed it No. 4 overall on its Intelligence Index, beating OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and trailing only Anthropic’s 5.5 duo and Meta’s Muse Wonder.
- In Moonshot’s tests, K3.1 Pro tops Opus 5.5 on hours-long coding projects, expert academic questions, document-heavy research, and real-world job tasks.
- At $2 in/$10 out per million tokens, K3.1 Pro is priced like Sonnet 5.5, a fifth of Astra’s rate, but consumes tokens at a higher rate than its frontier rivals.
- AA also ranks it the best openly available cyber-defense model, scoring 64% with no safety refusals, trailing just a GPT-6 variant available only to vetted defenders.
Rethink your enterprise app strategy 
The Rundown: Megavendors still control enterprise software today, but for how long? With AI reshaping how apps are built and licensed, this Gartner webinar shows how to use SaaS renewals for flexibility, cut hidden API costs, and govern AI outcomes.In this webinar, you'll learn how to:- Escape vendor lock-in at renewal
- Avoid hidden API costs
- Prepare to govern AI outcomes
The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature where we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and daily lives.Jonah, Head of AI Education: My wife and I used ChatGPT to bring our vision for a new master bedroom to life instead of hiring a designer.We started by sketching the basic layout, which ChatGPT rendered into a floor plan. We identified the wood, the type of cut we wanted, and the finishes. Then we had a detailed conversation about what we wanted the room to look like from each side.For smaller details, we scanned Google Images and Pinterest for inspiration pictures and designs we liked. We used ChatGPT Voice for back-and-forth conversations and final tweaks, re-rendering the images as our ideas developed.We took the final images to our contractor to help him understand the higher-level vision we wanted to achieve.Jennifer, Tech & Robotics Writer: We’re narrowing down high school options for my daughter, who wants to focus on art. I’m using Astra to find public schools in our area and beyond with strong art programs and understand how they compare.Astra can research school rankings and academic results, review art courses and facilities, and bring admissions requirements, portfolio expectations, fees, and commute times into one clear comparison. It can also suggest preparation classes—such as drawing, painting, digital art, or portfolio workshops—based on what each school expects.From there, it’s helping me build a shortlist, organize open days and application deadlines, and prepare questions for school visits. We can work through the options together and find a school she’s excited about.AI TRAINING
Let AI sign in without sharing your passwords
The Rundown: In this guide, you will use 1Password to approve an AI assistant’s login without pasting a password into chat. You’ll deny one request, test a small reading task, and check that access ends when you’re done.Step-by-step:- Check whether your agent has the official 1Password connection. Muse and Grok Bot are rolling it out, while Claude has a separate Mac setup
- Choose a test account with no private data or saved payment details. Save its login in 1Password and sign out in the browser the agent will use
- Give the agent a page to read and rule out edits, messages, and purchases. Check the site and saved login in the 1Password request, then deny the request
- Start again and approve the correct test login. Check that the agent reads the right page without changing anything or asking for a password in chat
- Stop the task, sign out of the website, and remove the 1Password connection. Check the browser as well as the connection settings
Create ad variations to scale performance marketing
The Rundown: Have an ad that’s performing well? Or an ad format that inspires you? OpenArt’s Ad Remake makes it easy to create your own versions with your product, branding, and style — giving you more ads to test without starting from scratch.OpenArt Ad Remake lets you:- Keep the hook, pacing, and structure that work
- Swap in your product, characters, and language without reshooting
- Adapt ads to 9:16, 16:9, 1:1, and 4:5 formats
Canva’s first in-house image model climbs the ranks
Image source: CanvaThe Rundown: Canva just launched Craft, the company’s first in-house AI image model, debuting at No. 4 on DesignArena’s crowdsourced leaderboard behind only three OpenAI models.The details: - Craft was trained on millions of designer-made templates like menus, slides, and posters from the company’s own library.
- The model plans each layout before drawing it with a two-step architecture, so images convert easily into editable designs via a Magic Layers feature.
- Craft’s 1340 score on the DesignArena beats the top models from Microsoft, Google, and xAI, while also landing No. 1 overall in portrait and nature categories.
- Craft is live for all Canva platform users and via public API, with MCP access for external assistants and agents also on the way.
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Everything else in AI todayMicrosoft’s Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace delivers hands-on expert support & $30K in Azure credits. Explore Premium & check eligibility now.*Jack Dorsey’s Block unveiled Dessa, a realistic voice AI trained on audio recordings of people chatting without any text, and small enough to run on a high-end MacBook.Anthropic lost two of Claude Code’s most visible builders ahead of its IPO, with desktop app creator Anthony Morris and Thariq Shihipar announcing their exits on X.OpenAI’s AI hacking teams uncovered unknown security holes and sandbox breakouts in its training setup, after a model’s Sept. escape forced an 11-day pause on frontier training.Anthropic’s deputy security chief Jason Clinton told security defenders to brace for 18 rough months and that things are going to get “a lot worse before they get better.”*Sponsored Listing
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