Daily Brief · 2026-11-05

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding ↗

Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B open-weight model trained for $32M that sets a U.S. open-weight state of the art on agentic coding, scoring 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1 and beating much larger models.

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Agent Gateway Interconnection: Use Cases and Requirements ↗

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? ↗

YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens ↗

Y Combinator's Garry Tan reportedly spends up to $200,000 a year on tokens due to his heavy use of AI agents, highlighting the real operating costs of agentic workflows.

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Gitbook Breached ↗

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app ↗

Momentic launches Mo, an AI QA engineer that runs end-to-end tests from plain-English YAML and plugs into coding agents via MCP and a CLI, aiming to put verification inside the agent loop.

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AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy ↗

Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse ↗

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor ↗

Meta acquires Conductor, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel; CEO Charlie Holtz says the team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs ↗