Following Amodei’s proposal, Anthropic and OpenAI say they will embed independent evaluators (e.g. METR, Redwood) with access to report incidents and assess alignment. Outside researchers welcome the idea but warn NDAs, short access windows, and missing details could leave them as contractors rather than true watchdogs; Meta, SpaceXAI, and DeepMind have not committed.
Instinct’s early access Concierge can place calls for bookings and bill disputes; Meta’s Muse is rolling out outbound calls to U.S. businesses first for users who asked for it. Rivals that advertised calling as a differentiator are now roughly at parity…
Unity released an official Codex plugin (Sept 16) with 31 skills written by Unity engineers—covering UI Toolkit, URP, IAP, multiplayer, and a unity cli for Editors and packages—so Codex checks the project and verifies results against current APIs. It requires Unity 6+, installs in two commands, and follows Unity’s earlier Claude Code plugin…
Zed launched the public beta of Delta (Sept 16), a multiplayer environment where teammates join agent threads to code and review instead of using pull requests. It’s free during beta on macOS, Linux, Windows, and the web; Zed already disabled PRs on Delta’s own repo after landing 570 changes that way…
Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, an essay platform on AGI led by Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis, and James Manyika, opening with pieces on reasoning transparency, economic policy, and frontier AI. Legg told the FT that Amodei’s call to slow frontier releases is “worth considering,” and that it’s too early to claim AGI has arrived…
Two Perplexity engineers spent about eight weeks building CobbleDB, a 40K line Rust key value store, with hundreds of coding agents that never got production access. It now serves part of search traffic at 5.6 ms median batch read latency versus 31 ms on DynamoDB, with open source plans later…
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