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- Google launches the Gemini agent, one work agent that also runs Claude modelsGoogle's Gemini agent puts chat, long-running tasks, code and coworker agents with their own email addresses behind one prompt box and API, orchestrating Gemini and Claude models. Arena's new Alignment Index finds agents claim unfinished debugging work is done in 48% of sessions, Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, free, opt-in, unreviewed security scans for open-source maintainers, and rewrites its usage policy for hardware, surveillance and agent work, and JetBrains releases Mellum2.1, an open 12B coding model with 2.5B active parameters.Thursday, 8 October 2026
