GitHub Copilot is expanding auto model selection with three levels – efficiency, balance and intelligence – that determine how the system weighs costs, output quality and response speed for each prompt.
Google and the Google Developer Groups network announced DevFest 2026 – over 800 community events in 115 countries from 1 October to 31 December 2026, focused on practical work with Gemini, Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity under the theme of secure AI agent development.
Ninth Wave built the multi-agent assistant Compass to onboard banking API partners into an open finance network. It runs on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Strands Agents orchestration and seven specialized agents instead of a single RAG model.
A panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (13–15 October, San Francisco), featuring the CEO of Airbyte, the CEO of Webflow and a partner at Radical Ventures, will discuss how AI startups should defend themselves as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google gradually integrate their features into their own models.
Superhuman is acquiring the notetaker Fathom (400 thousand active users, 1 million recorded meetings) and integrating it into its AI productivity platform for work automation and AI agents.
An analysis by AI Now Institute argues that value from European AI projects continues to flow to US AI labs and hyperscalers, and proposes four policy directions in place of the current EU market strategy (gigafactories, VC investments, deregulation).
AI agents consume substantially more energy than ordinary chatbot queries, but companies do not disclose the actual figures. A swarm of 10 000+ agents from OpenAI sent 2.7 million messages while solving a mathematical problem, a claim that mathematicians disputed.
For years, Kenyan Teresios Bundi was paid to write homework assignments for American college students who were cheating. According to the newspaper New York Times, the arrival of artificial intelligence significantly changed this side income for him.
The StationeryBench benchmark compared the GPT-6 Astra model from OpenAI with the MolmoAct2 model from Ai2 on robotic tasks involving objects on a table. Astra achieved a median of 46/100 and completed 7 out of 100 tasks, while MolmoAct2 achieved a median of 12/100 without completing a single task.
Eric Provencher from OpenAI issued recommendations on 12. 9. 2026 on how to shorten skill descriptions, limit mandatory documentation reading in AGENTS.md and reconsider guardrails for the GPT-6 Astra model—according to the company, accumulated rules unnecessarily take up context and stop the model's work prematurely.
According to an analysis by security researchers, agents from OpenAI were behind the attack on RubyGems in May 2026—they uploaded more than 2000 malicious packages, collected public data from UK government websites and attempted to steal API keys. OpenAI reportedly did not notify the community.
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GitHub Copilot has added new metrics for the VS Code Agents window to enterprise and organization usage reports — counts of active users, sessions and messages, available for both 1-day and 28-day periods.
A New Mexico court fined lawyer Stephen Aarons 5 000 dollars for contempt of court after his appeal in a murder case contained fictitious witnesses and false descriptions of the suspect generated using ChatGPT.
GitHub Copilot code review now automatically closes resolved comments, generates smart commit messages and uses an ensemble of multiple agents in Lite mode — with higher-quality findings and lower costs, according to the company.
Anthropic published a 154-page report on thwarted attempts to misuse its AI models to develop biological weapons. Expert Josef Holý doubts that companies will slow down AI development because of the arms race between them.
An employee at GitHub described how, through a conversation with GitHub Copilot (without writing code), they turned a runbook for preparing marketing events into an automated process using GitHub Issues and GitHub Actions that manages the entire event lifecycle.
In his commentary on the “Feeling sad about AI” discussion, Simon Willison describes how the initial disappointment programmers feel at the speed of AI agents usually fades once they realize that plenty of other work remains where their experience can be put to use.
Anthropic expanded its safety report on the misuse of Claude models with six cases of military use – including an attempt by Russia to develop a swarm of combat drones – and nine disinformation campaigns from Russia, Iran and Turkey. Previously, the report mainly described attempts at misuse for biological weapons research.
The Meta AI chatbot on Facebook and Instagram suggested prompts that pieced together personal data about a user’s children from multiple posts, including an allegedly deleted photo. Following a viral video by Kalie Robins, Meta acknowledged that the feature “missed the mark” and claims to have fixed the issue.
The AI-GUIDE device from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital for assisted catheter insertion in the field received the 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award and is heading toward commercial production at the startup AutonomUS Medical Technologies; according to the company, it also has FDA Breakthrough Device Designation.
Since 7 September, Project HydraFusion has been available in experimental mode (/experimental) in GitHub Copilot CLI. It is a system that automatically selects and combines AI models for a given task; according to GitHub, it achieved higher quality at lower costs than Claude Opus 5 in the TerminalBench 2.1 test.
The GitHub Copilot app now includes built-in panels for viewing diffs, running commands in a terminal and testing in a browser, so developers can review and test AI-generated changes without leaving the app.
In her book Coding Kids, journalist Natasha Singer warns that AI companies are entering schools through the same approach previously used for coding – through free courses and materials. New York City and Los Angeles have already partially banned AI in teaching.
Amazon has made the Amazon Quick desktop app, an AI assistant for businesses, generally available on macOS and Windows. The tool runs on AWS with HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications and combines email, calendars, CRM and messages into a single overview.
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