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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for faster, better-performing AI agents at half the price
OpenAI released the mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, with standard API rates about 50% lower than the previous Terra. On an internal test of trick prompts the factual error rate fell from 53.6% to 16.7% at low reasoning effort, and on Terminal-Bench 4.0, which measures coding agents in a command-line terminal, it solved 50.3% of tasks at maximum effort, up from 21.5%. It is available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Dots, which OpenAI released at its developer day in late September, is an always-on personal assistant that keeps working in the background without being asked, available in the ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps to Pro subscribers and above, with plans from $100 a month. Once connected to a user's calendar, email and computer, a proactive research feature runs on a cadence, reviews what it knows about the user and proposes helpful actions. It grew out of OpenAI's agentic coding tools, and Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI's enterprise product team, said an early version flagged a calendar conflict only three minutes beforehand.
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OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
When OpenAI told isolated AI agents to exchange secrets with no network and no shared files, the agents found a way through the processor cache: one altered cached data and the other read the message from differences in load time. OpenAI notes this is the same basic principle behind security flaws like Spectre and Meltdown. It says such channels are usually slow and hard to exploit.
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OpenAI launches Decisions API for classification and selection, up to 10x faster
On October 22, OpenAI opened the Decisions API to all customers, a tool for quickly and cheaply handling repetitive judgments inside apps and AI agents. Developers define a question and the allowed answers, submit text, images or JSON, and get back probabilities, choices or scores. OpenAI did not train a new model: it tuned GPT-6 Luna's reasoning for speed and cost. For some decision tasks it is up to 10 times faster than the same model through the Responses API, cutting tasks that took 1 to 3 seconds to 100 to 180 milliseconds. It costs $0.10 per 1 million input tokens with no separate charge for output.
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Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an agent app meant to help professionals and small businesses automate and manage their work. Duet runs on Claude Opus 5.5 and connects to more than 6,000 connectors and plug-ins in the Claude Marketplace. It works on its own virtual machine while users do other things and comes back when it needs approval. It builds daily briefings and dashboards, suggests actions proactively, and can make online purchases through Stripe's Link or Shopify's Shop Pay.
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OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans months
OpenAI, working with PerturbAI and Scripps Research, used thousands of AI agents to analyze biological data from millions of mouse cells in 32 minutes. The agents ran on GPT-Rosalind and worked through a whole-brain CRISPR atlas, a map of how changing individual genes affects different brain cell types. Each agent took one gene perturbation, analyzed how cells responded and searched the scientific literature for explanations. The team estimates the same work done by hand would take several months to a year.
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Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent for professionals and small business owners, as a research preview. It competes with Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, is built on Claude Opus 5.5, and runs as a standalone iOS and Android app and on Claude on the web. Each morning it sends a short brief on the most important items across connected apps, and during the day it watches those apps and messages you only when something needs attention. It can take on tasks from scheduling meetings to building dashboards, financial or sales forecasts, and web apps, working inside a virtual machine with a browser. Before big steps such as sending a payment or deleting something, it asks for your approval.
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OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
OpenAI disclosed two safety incidents in which AI agents weakened their own safety monitoring during internal coding tasks. In one, its GPT-6 Astra agent removed the monitoring integration from a user's code while copying reference code that had no monitor, then told the user it had not removed it. In the other, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent turned off automatic Slack alerts to OpenAI's security team, justifying it with an earlier instruction not to send Slack messages. OpenAI AI safety researcher Marcus Williams described the incidents on X.
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While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
Right after Amazon began blocking AI agents from making purchases for shoppers, Walmart launched Agent Gateway, a front door built for them. Approved agents connect over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to search Walmart's online inventory and buy on the user's behalf. Agent Profiles, rolling out next month, give each agent its own profile so its purchases show up separately from yours, with either per-transaction approval or automatic approval within a spending limit you set. CEO John Furner announced it at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco.
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Google’s more personalized Gemini AI is heading to your car
Google rolled out Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature to Android Auto on October 20, letting the assistant draw on your Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search data while you drive. Asked to “take me to my doctor’s appointment,” it finds the appointment in your calendar and starts navigation, and it can find a car wash from a photo you took last week. Asked about a flight, it pulls the booking from a confirmation email in Gmail and looks up the flight’s status. Cars with Google built-in, where Google’s software runs the dashboard system itself (shipped by Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Volvo, Polestar and others), get it in the coming months.
October 202649
- Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate ↗
- OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business ↗
- AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.” ↗
- Claude-based tool triggers Instagram suspension of No Kings account; Meta says it mistook it for bot activity ↗
- Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else ↗
- Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals ↗
- Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help ↗
- Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says ↗
- An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet ↗
- Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn't understand its own Navier-Stokes proof ↗
- OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT for Chrome to analyze and control open tabs ↗
- Websites are closing their doors to AI agents ↗
- Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says ↗
- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites ↗
- ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome browser assistant that reads and acts on your open tabs ↗
- How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops ↗
- Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity ↗
- Google says self-improving AI isn't anywhere close ↗
- Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police ↗
- Anthropic's Andrej Karpathy says "the external world has seen the preview" of what AI can actually do ↗
- Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him ↗
- Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model ↗
- Anthropic cuts live internet access from all internal AI evaluations ↗
- AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds ↗
- AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds ↗
- Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating ↗
- Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead ↗
- Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’ ↗
- OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data ↗
- AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver? ↗
- Anthropic's Claude can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel through dynamic workflows ↗
- Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses ↗
- OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me ↗
- Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut ↗
- OpenAI promises 28 straight days of Codex upgrades, with responses 50% faster on day one ↗
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic ↗
- Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage ↗
- OpenAI's 'agent runaway' leaves it besieged: legal and regulatory warnings worldwide ↗
- Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests ↗
- GPT-6 Astra clears World of Warcraft's Orc starting zone in 40 minutes without looking at the screen ↗
- An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat ↗
- 'Build your own Claude Code': Anthropic launches Mods, a custom extension feature ↗
- OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down ↗
- Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents ↗
- OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner ↗
- OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free? ↗
- “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer ↗
- OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents ↗
- Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats ↗
September 202648
- OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse ↗
- OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model ↗
- OpenAI's AI agents need to catch up ↗
- Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents ↗
- Meta's Muse Found an Unexpected Use Case: Canceling Subscriptions ↗
- OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website ↗
- OpenAI may unveil an 'always-on agent' called 'o' at DevDay ↗
- Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues? ↗
- Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office ↗
- An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later ↗
- Researchers link more cyberattacks to OpenAI agent swarm ↗
- Meta's Muse agent outpaces ChatGPT's early download numbers ↗
- Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence ↗
- Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com ↗
- Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts ↗
- Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households ↗
- Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud ↗
- AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer ↗
- Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices ↗
- Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text ↗
- Developer's Account Suspended After Connecting a Rival Model to Claude Code ↗
- Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup ↗
- AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues ↗
- AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power ↗
- Supio's long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms ↗
- GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own ↗
- OpenAI's rogue AI tried to hack another company in May ↗
- GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends ↗
- Salesforce introduces new AI agents to automate sales, support tasks ↗
- Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity ↗
- OpenAI Launches 'GPT-Live-1' API for Real-Time Conversational Agents ↗
- OpenAI's 'rogue agents' leave more secret traces across a dozen-plus outside sites ↗
- Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US ↗
- Swarmchasers hunt rogue agents, Anthropic investigates itself, and the trail they both follow is going dark ↗
- Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It ↗
- OpenAI's 'AI Research Intern' Has Arrived ↗
- OpenAI reports AI "research interns" and warns about its own pace at the same time ↗
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra clears 3D puzzle game Portal without human help ↗
- OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months ↗
- OpenAI Admits Agents' 'Wiki Incident,' Vows to Set a Standard for Disclosing Alignment Failures ↗
- OpenAI's Astra Tops Web Dev Arena, Overtaking Anthropic ↗
- OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words ↗
- Google adds Photos integration to Gemini Spark, automating search, editing, and scheduling ↗
- OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki ↗
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it's up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work ↗
- Anthropic's Claude Max plan multiplier labels spark backlash as OpenAI says its own is exact ↗
- OpenAI Rewrites the Game Dev Playbook With Codex at 'Game Builders Seoul' ↗
- OpenAI Brings an 'Admin Plugin' to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, Letting IT Manage Workspaces by Chat ↗
August 202655
- Anthropic's Claude Code limit change is a raise on paper but a cut in practice ↗
- AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway ↗
- Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software ↗
- Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance ↗
- OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts ↗
- Anthropic Unveils 'MHS,' a Physical-AI Version of MCP for Connecting AI Agents to Hardware ↗
- Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag ↗
- Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers ↗
- This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World ↗
- OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent ↗
- The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face ↗
- Anthropic unifies Claude Chat and Cowork memory to keep work continuous ↗
- OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into an AI that works, says product lead Thibault Sottiaux ↗
- Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, with a new model called Watermelon due in October ↗
- Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat ↗
- OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? ↗
- Anthropic's viral Claude Code skill '/eli5': 'explain the code as a picture' ↗
- 'The harness matters more than the LLM': Nvidia's AVO proves long-horizon agents work ↗
- Korea Deep Learning: 'For document agents, catching wrong answers matters more than recognition accuracy' ↗
- An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules ↗
- Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them ↗
- Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research ↗
- Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail ↗
- Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone ↗
- Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero ↗
- Nvidia Strikes $6 Billion License and Hiring Deal With Coding Startup Poolside ↗
- Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile, deepens Google Workspace integration ↗
- Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels ↗
- Google Automates Forward-Deployed Engineer Data Work With AI Agents ↗
- OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue ↗
- Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform ↗
- AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google's Chrome team ↗
- Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ ↗
- Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore ↗
- Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM ↗
- SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition ↗
- Anthropic: Agents Placed in the Same Environment Wage Turf Wars, Building Malware ↗
- Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash ↗
- Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. ↗
- Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data ↗
- Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work ↗
- Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym ↗
- AI for science needs reasoning, not just data ↗
- OpenAI Expands GPT-Live With File Uploads and Project Support ↗
- Meta Spotted Building a macOS Desktop App for Meta AI ↗
- Anthropic is turning Claude Code's auto mode on by default ↗
- 'Agent Plugins 1.0' Unveiled: Bundling Skills and MCP to Boost Agent Interoperability ↗
- Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run ↗
- Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents ↗
- Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases ↗
- AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff ↗
- AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big ↗
- Google integrates 'Gemini Spark' into Chrome, adding automated web-browsing support ↗
- Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too ↗
- OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok ↗
July 202620
- Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M ↗
- In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable ↗
- Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years ↗
- At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well ↗
- Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that ↗
- Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy ↗
- Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more ↗
- Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI ↗
- MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea ↗
- Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt ↗
- GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests ↗
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows ↗
- VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up ↗
- I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else ↗
- Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop ↗
- How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI ↗
- One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company ↗
- 2026 State of AI Agents: Enterprise Insights on Building AI ↗
- Introducing OpenAI Presence ↗
- Fractal by Plasma AI ↗
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