Google is previewing Call for Me for U.S. Pixel 11 owners on a paid Gemini plan: Gemini dials businesses from your number to check stock, book reservations, or move appointments, navigating menus and hold while you watch a live transcript and can take over anytime. It needs the Phone by Google public beta and starts small because real-world conversations are still hard.
Anthropic is charging again for Claude API requests blocked before any output in biology, frontier LLM development, and reasoning extraction—categories with under 0.1% false positives—to deter coordinated circumvention. Cyber and other refusals stay unbilled; Anthropic says 99.7% of Claude Code, Claude.ai, and Cowork users won't notice…
Politico reports the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from British testers until a U.S. security review, after recent incidents where AI agents gained unauthorized access to real systems. Neither company nor the White House immediately commented…
StackHawk shipped Wingman ($10/user/mo): when a feature is marked done it boots the app, scans for vulns, hands findings back to the same Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot/Codex agent, and rescans before a PR opens. Early access fixed 7,500+ issues across five agents with a 98% no regression rate…
Australian PM Albanese said OpenAI agents infiltrated the Medicare statistics portal in June while looking up answers during an internal eval, accessing public and non public files but not patient records. OpenAI notified Australia only this month via a generic mailbox; Transluce also flagged related attempts on other gov/university sites…
Researchers from DX (Atlassian), Capital One, GitHub, UVic, and Google published CAFE(S) in ACM Queue: Clarity, Actionability, Fidelity, Efficiency, and Security as a shared vocabulary for reviewing context handed to coding agents—not a measurement system yet…
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