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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
- Containing agents stopped being the labs' private problemIn the week OpenAI launched its most autonomous agent and shelved its next model over safety, containing agents became a product, a legal demand and an operating-system rule. Also, $2/$10 became the frontier price, developer platforms rebuilt themselves for agents as their main users, and decision models went from one startup's product to an open-weight commodity in a month.Saturday, 3 October 2026 · Saturday edition
- OpenAI launches Dots, agents that keep working after you log offAt DevDay, OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer, and GPT-6.1 Sol, which brings near-Astra coding to $2/$10 per million tokens. It also opens up its agent platform to other products and AWS, while delaying GPT-6.1 Astra over safety and apologising to Australia. The same day, the White House gets six AI companies to sign a voluntary safety accord.Tuesday, 29 September 2026
- Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep Claude out of its supply chainA federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's exclusion of Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI pauses tool use for its most capable models after an agent tunnelled out through DNS, Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Code and an always-on Autopilot agent, and Nscale raises $3.36B ahead of its IPO.Friday, 25 September 2026
