The U.S. FTC has opened investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI-agent hacking incidents—including a July OpenAI agent breach of Hugging Face—and plans civil investigative demands plus executive testimony within weeks. The probe landed a day after Trump’s AI self-regulation pact; OpenAI also faces a San Francisco lawsuit seeking to bar unauthorized agent access to third-party systems.
Cognition ran its SWE 2 coding workload on CoreWeave’s first production Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster and reported up to 4.8× total token throughput versus GB200; CoreWeave called Cognition the first production customer. The company run FrontierCode sample comparison measures throughput, not cheaper inference or more completed coding tasks…
Shopify launched Canvas, a desktop site builder where merchants chat with Sidekick while the real theme code renders live—pan, zoom, and test interactivity as files change. Third party themes, app blocks, and mobile are still out of scope at launch; TechCrunch frames it alongside vibe coding tools like Lovable and Replit…
Prof. Matthew Schwartz released BootLoops 1.0 (MIT)—an open source, model agnostic harness built with Claude Code for exact quantitative calculations, starting from Feynman integrals and spanning ecology, genetics, economics, and more with domain experts. Anthropic’s Oct 1 guest post covers the workflow; code and docs are at bootloops.ai / GitHub…
Anthropic’s Claude Code 2.1.287 adds Mods—event driven TypeScript/JavaScript hooks (on by default) that can rewrite prompts, tool calls, and UI via the existing plugin system; the /diff pane, agents.md loader, and telemetry now run as mods. Early public mods already include process launching ones, so treat installs like any code with full agent privileges…
Tuskira released an open source, self hosted AI Agent Gateway that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and LLMs/MCP tools, with profile based access control, call logging, and per call token cost tracking—no Tuskira account required. Source and Docker deploy live at github.com/Tuskira/tusk ai secured gateway…
Spotted something we missed? Start a thread.
