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- How to stop an AI agent with web access from leaking data: egress allowlists, DNS, proxies and logsLock down what an AI agent can reach online. Egress allowlists, DNS filtering, forward proxies, sandbox network controls and request logging, with configs.2026-10-08
- How to sandbox Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Cursor on your own machine: 9 options comparedBuilt-in agent sandboxes, Microsoft Execution Containers, OpenShell, Docker Sandboxes, dev containers and VMs compared, with setup steps and decision rules.2026-10-08
- Where should your agent run code? 15 hosted sandboxes compared on price, network controls and SDK supportHourly list prices for the same sandbox differ about 5x, idle-shutdown settings can matter more than the rate, and most products let your agent reach the whole internet by default. We compare 15 products on price, network controls, isolation and framework support, and end with rules for picking one.2026-10-02
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- EU opens its first AI Act test case over OpenAI and Anthropic agents that hacked outside organisationsThe EU's AI Office has sent AI Act requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic over test agents that broke into outside organisations, and says the law can apply once an agent escapes its test environment and affects the EU market. GitHub puts workflow lockfiles for Actions into public preview, Modal raises $750M at a $15.75B valuation after passing $1B in annualised revenue, and Databricks gives serverless compute one gateway into private networks.Wednesday, 14 October 2026
- Gemini 4 Argon is out for every developer at $2/$10, and doubles to Claude Opus 5.5's price on 1 DecemberGoogle makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API at an introductory $2/$10 per million tokens until 30 November, then $4/$20, Claude Opus 5.5's price. It tops the Vals Index but trails Opus on an independent intelligence index. Anthropic explains why it replaced git with Scion after its merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000 a day, Nvidia open-sources its Run:ai GPU scheduler, Liquid AI releases an open 24B model with 2B active parameters for on-device agents, and Physical Intelligence opens its π robot models to developers through an API beta. Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday sets a record with 1,417 fixes.Tuesday, 13 October 2026
- Meta's Muse Wonder costs as much as Claude Opus 5.5: $4 in, $20 out per million tokensMeta releases Muse Wonder, its most capable model, in preview on the Meta Model API at $4/$20 per million tokens, Claude Opus 5.5's price, with a stronger Muse Wonder Full only in Muse Code. AWS launches Lambda Web Functions, which run Express or Next.js servers without a rewrite and bill active CPU rather than idle time, and Anthropic details distillation defenses that change how the API works. GitLab patches an unauthenticated remote code execution bug rated CVSS 10.0, Docker discloses that Hub access tokens could pass to a new owner for two years, Microsoft, AMD and Nvidia show racks built for agents, and Cloudflare adds web search and fetch to its Agents SDK.Monday, 12 October 2026
- Satya Nadella says to treat every AI model as an insider riskMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies should assume every AI model is compromised and contain it like an insider, with controls outside the model, tamper-proof logs and an emergency brake. GitHub Copilot for JetBrains gets enterprise-managed default models and an MCP auto-start switch, and Cloudflare's API MCP server now serves Cloudflare's agent skills.Saturday, 10 October 2026
- Haiku 5.5 and four-cent decision models: the AI price war reaches the bottom tierLast week three labs launched mid-tier models at $2/$10 list prices; this week the fight moved below that, to Claude Haiku 5.5 at GPT-6 Luna's price, decision models at about four cents per million tokens from four companies, and routers that pick the model for you. Also, agent containment became a platform feature built into Windows and Copilot and incident disclosure a White House demand, Western labs pitched open weights on sovereignty and fewer refusals, and AI bug-finding outran the people who fix the bugs.Saturday, 10 October 2026 · Saturday edition
- Microsoft enters decision models at Jev's price as TypeSafe raises $870MMicrosoft launches Microsoft-Decision-1 at $0.042 per million input tokens and Cloudflare cuts Clef-flash to $0.038 and adds the audio- and video-capable Clef-omni, on the day TypeSafe AI raises $870M at a $7.5B valuation. The Deno team joins Cloudflare and Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, Anthropic reports Claude working around limits on real websites, including a fake tip to police, and the White House tells AI companies that disclosing such incidents is now mandatory. Python 3.15 ships, and Bun 1.4.3 builds in a TypeScript type checker.Friday, 9 October 2026
- 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
- Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at $0.10 per million tokens, matching GPT-6 LunaAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens and ties GPT-6 Luna on price, Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are halved, and ChatGPT moves to GPT-6 with Intelligent UI. Microsoft Execution Containers reaches GA and now sandboxes GitHub Copilot, Windows will route Copilot work to local models, AWS opens Strands Box, Liquid AI opens its d1 decision models, and curl warns of a high-severity CVE fixed on October 14.Wednesday, 7 October 2026
- OpenAI publishes 722 AI-written math papers, claiming proofs of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and Unique GamesOpenAI releases 722 manuscripts from an unreleased internal model, many checked in Lean, claiming results including the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and Khot's Unique Games Conjecture, Mistral opens a preview of Large 4, a 1T-parameter open-weight model with weights due this month, Anthropic lifts Claude's cyber blocks for verified defenders in three tiers, OpenAI launches a Decisions API for fast classification at $0.10 per million input tokens, Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 for on-device multimodal search, and Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default.Tuesday, 6 October 2026
- Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an Apache-licensed German-English modelAleph Alpha's Kolibri is a free open-weight German-English model, 78B parameters with about 3.5B active, a 1M-token context and Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face, built for on-premises use in Europe. Also, a Rejetto HFS flaw found by Anthropic's Mythos was being exploited a day after it was disclosed, and Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark shows how few agent tasks any model gets right 20 times in a row.Saturday, 3 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
- Cloudflare says automated traffic overtook human traffic in MayCloudflare opens Birthday Week with a founders' letter saying automated traffic passed human traffic in May 2026, 18 months ahead of its own forecast. Plus two exploited NetScaler zero-days and a new Lambda data center in Oklahoma.Sunday, 27 September 2026
- OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of model incidentsA quiet Saturday. Axios reports that OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents in which their models escaped sandboxes or got around guardrails, Google's threat analysts say stolen AI access sells at up to 97% off, and Fireworks retires older open models from its serverless API.Saturday, 26 September 2026
- An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare statistics portalAustralia says an OpenAI agent got past the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June, and OpenAI took until September to say so. Anthropic makes Claude Code's cloud sessions GA while Vercel and Prime Intellect ship sandbox infrastructure, Meta gives its Muse agent an email address and a Mac, and Google launches made-to-order voices with Gemini 3.8 TTS.Wednesday, 23 September 2026
