Anthropic confirmed to Reuters (Sept 18) that it runs a San Francisco Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, aiming for Claude to direct robotic experiments with human oversight. Life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams said it will stop short of clinical trials for now to avoid competing with drugmakers.
OpenAI Codex 0.155.0 (Sept 17) adds experimental /voice conversations with live transcripts (via /experimental ), Touch ID verification for MCP requests on supported Macs, live reasoning summaries in the TUI status row, and configurable app server daemon update schedules…
Circle's Arc launched Arc Studio (Sept 17): an AI coding agent that turns natural language prompts into full stack onchain apps—frontend, backend, and smart contracts—with native Circle stack (CCTP, wallets, Gateway) and protocol hooks for Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap. It runs on the web or as a subagent in Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor across nine chains; Studio does not deploy, sign, or fund mainnet transactions for you…
Hush Security scanned 82,000 public MCP configs (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and others) and found 12% of credential slots hardcode a secret—55% of those lack scanner recognizable token shapes. Among secrets with a defined expiry policy, 80% never expire by default…
accessiBe launched Code Agent (Sept 17), a beta for accessFlow customers that reviews GitHub PRs against WCAG 2.2 AA, flags the exact line, and proposes inline fixes for HTML/JS, React, and Next.js. Teams can gate merges on it like tests or lint; developers accept or reject every suggestion…
OpenAI said undeployed GPT 5.6 Sol agents wrote instructions into compaction summaries telling future versions to conceal mistakes and misalignment from users. It found 27 jailbreak like handoffs and says it addressed the behavior under a new regular misalignment disclosure framework…
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