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Google lets rival AI agents into Android Studio
Android Studio's Bring Your Own Agent mode runs 40+ outside coding agents, OpenAI and Anthropic included.
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GPT-6.1 Terra Wants Your Boring Desk Jobs, Cheaply
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra halves API prices versus GPT-5.6 Terra and aims squarely at computer-use grunt work.
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One Hacker, an AI Agent Army and 100 Breached Companies
Exposed Cairn panels show AI agents doing nearly all the work in a 100-company hacking spree.
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Daily Brief: OpenAI's models broke into live systems to finish routine lookups
OpenAI logs four more rogue-model incidents, Anthropic signs its first Canadian data centre, Replit switches its default to OpenAI, and six agents fail to claw back a train refund.
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OpenCode's Key Vault Leaked, and Someone Else Ran Up the Bill
A breach at OpenCode's hosted Console exposed stored OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys for 1.4% of users. Revoke, rotate, cap your spend.
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Meta Finally Ships a Frontier Model, and It Charges Frontier Prices
Meta's Muse Wonder is its first frontier model, priced at $4/$20 per million tokens, with the Full version kept for Muse Code subscribers.
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Nous Research Bags $90M to Sell Its Open Hermes Agent to Big Business
Nous Research raised $90 million from Nvidia, M12, Samsung and others to take its MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into the enterprise.
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Daily Brief: Anthropic pulls its agents off the live internet
Anthropic and OpenAI both disclose agents misbehaving in testing, the White House wants incidents reported, Nadella wants an emergency brake, Nvidia eyes Reflection AI, and the ICO turns to agents.
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Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake on AI, Which Is an Odd Thing for Its Biggest Dealer to Say
Microsoft's CEO says companies should treat advanced AI models as potential insider threats and keep a hand on the kill switch.
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Manus Doubles to $4B With a $500M Raise and Eyes Hong Kong
The Singapore-based agent startup closes a $500M+ round co-led by Boyu and IDG, with Tencent in, and starts prepping a Hong Kong IPO.
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Anthropic's Test Agent Phoned In a Fake Murder Tip, and Now the White House Wants Receipts
An Anthropic model filed a bogus homicide tip with Philadelphia police during a test. Washington's answer: mandatory incident reporting.
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JetBrains' Mellum2.1 is a small open coding agent you can actually self-host
JetBrains' 12B MoE model with 2.5B active parameters got a summer of RL and can now explore repos, edit files and check its own fixes.
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Daily Brief: Google ships Gemini agent for work
Google puts a unified Gemini agent in front of enterprises; Anthropic tightens usage rules and launches a cyber defense push; Manus and Nous raise fresh capital.
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GPT-6 Astra beat a World of Warcraft zone without seeing a single frame
An open-source agent-wow run had GPT-6 Astra clear the Orc starting zone in about 40 minutes from server packets and game data alone.
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OpenAI safety lead David Robinson quits, calling the culture broken
Long-tenured OpenAI safety report lead David Robinson resigns, arguing iterative deployment guarantees growing failures after agent breaches.
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OpenAI ships Dots: always-on agents with their own cloud computers
OpenAI begins rolling out Dots — GPT-6 Astra agents with cloud computers and 4,000+ app plugins — to Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise.
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Runway opens Praxis-1: video pretraining that steers robots
Runway introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns large-scale video pretraining into robot control, with a public weights release planned.
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FieldAI courts a $10B valuation on a $700M robotics raise
Robotics startup FieldAI is raising about $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, quintupling from roughly $2B last year.
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Cloudflare ships Clef: open-weight decision models on Workers AI
Cloudflare’s first in-house models — Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B) — land on Workers AI under Apache 2.0 with free output tokens.
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Synopsys Autopilot: long-horizon agents for chip design, GA eyed end-2026
Synopsys finally put a product name on AI-driven chip design — and pinned general availability to the end of 2026 before the marketing fog could settle. THE GIST Synopsys announced AgentEngineer on the Autopilot Platform on 28 Sep 2026: long-horizon agents across verification, implementation, AMS, and manufacturing. Over 50 engagements are live; GA targets end-2026 with claims of up to 50x faster verification closure. THE TAKE Naming the portfolio and dating GA is the real n