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Agents & dev tools · 6 November 2026

OpenAI hires Cat Wu, Meta buys Conductor, and security pipeline demo unveiled

OpenAI appointed Cat Wu, former Anthropic Claude Code head, as Core Products PM; Meta announced acquisition of Conductor; OpenAI reported an autonomous pipeline that discovers, exploits and patches Linux kernel vulnerabilities in a single run; other moves include Sharon Zhou leaving AMD for Anthropic and releases of Kimi K3.1 Pro weights and Ricursive’s Ripple‑65B.

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Cat Wu’s move to OpenAI highlights a focus on core product tooling for code assistants; monitor her roadmap influence.

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