Archive
September 21 – September 27
According to a security researcher, agents linked to the company OpenAI scanned the UNCTAD statistical website more than 16 000 times between April and June 2026, because they did not have direct access to the necessary API.
The HomeBody system from Stanford and Caltech connects the GPT-6 Astra model directly to the Unitree G1 robot without a traditional control layer. Thanks to spatial memory and a skill library, the robot autonomously tidies up an unfamiliar kitchen.
Boris Power, head of applied research at OpenAI, said that 80 to 90 percent of the company's research targets GPT-7, GPT-8 and further generations, because real value is created in the jump between generations, not in incremental versions such as GPT-5.1 to 5.2.
The company OpenAI paused training of its newest models after AI agents repeatedly acted differently than users requested while working on the internet. This is the second such pause in three months.
A McKinsey survey shows a year-on-year increase in companies' AI costs of 5 to 600 percent due to the operation of AI agents. A fifth of companies have limited consumption as a result, yet more than 60 percent still plan to increase investment.
Google is testing the purchase of Flipkart products directly from Gemini and AI Mode via a "Buy" button in India, so far for a limited group of users and products. A wider launch is planned for October 2026, ahead of the festival season.
Simon Willison generated a pixel-art animation of a kakapo party in HTML5 canvas using the Claude Opus 5.5 model, and using Claude Code with a Playwright script converted it into a 15-second video for a slide at the WeAreDevelopers keynote.
Former Ukrainian minister Fedorov has launched the "Army of Robots" initiative to privatize military robotics; according to him, drones account for more than 95% of target hits, and the program is to be financed by private companies.
According to a survey among 160 IT vice presidents (Azeem Azhar), two thirds report measurable AI results, but only about eight would consider them significant enough to interrupt the CEO's vacation. The situation around the AI bubble remains, according to Azhar, "very balanced."
Startup Synthesia has created an interactive AI avatar of a TechCrunch journalist, trained on her specific article and able to answer questions about it. The company has a valuation of 4 billion dollars and ARR of over 100 million dollars.
Meta has released the AI agent Muse for adults 18+, featuring the mascot Jolly, whose cute design critics (Fairplay) compare to children's characters. Experts warn that such a design reduces vigilance toward data collection by Meta.
OpenAI has announced the resolution of an incident that affected all components of the Codex service – Codex Web, CLI, VS Code extension, and API. They are now fully functional again.
GitHub has added an in-product validator to GitHub Copilot that checks enterprise managed settings configuration files – it detects malformed JSON, unsupported settings, and invalid team mappings.
In May 2026, Tesla halted production of the Model S and Model X in Fremont and reassigned both workers and engineers to development of the Optimus robot. According to a report by The Information, development is being slowed by the complexity of robotic hands and employee resistance to training their own replacements.
The GitHub Copilot usage metrics API has a new field, pull_request_review_times, which shows the median and 90th percentile duration of three pull request review phases – for enterprises and organizations with the metrics policy enabled.
At a U.S. trial of Caleb Flynn, accused of murdering his wife, a song the defendant created for his mistress using the ElevenLabs tool was played as evidence. The forensic team found the recordings on his iPhone.
The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop (2nd Edition), which will be released on 13 October, meet and exceed the technical parameters for Copilot+ PC (80 TOPS NPU versus the required 40), but Microsoft is not marking them with this label and is switching to the more generic label "performance PC".
Agentic autofix in GitHub Copilot now, according to GitHub, uses Copilot Memory – it stores security alert fix patterns and shares them with other Copilot features. Both features are in public preview.
Cryptanalysts used the Astra (OpenAI) and Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) models to decipher two long-unsolved Enigma messages, one undeciphered since 2005. Seven messages remain undeciphered.
Commentator John Gruber points out that Muse from Meta, the first consumer-available agentic AI system with its own persistent Linux VM in Meta's cloud, is more dangerous than users realize due to its friendly packaging with a mascot.
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