OpenAI’s Sept 14 note says Perplexity cofounder Johnny Ho uses GPT-6 Astra to craft communications, edit live systems, and monitor production software—checking in far less than with earlier models. Perplexity also has Astra build end-to-end test harnesses that mock APIs and connectors.
Announced Oct 27 for web, desktop and iOS, the plugins let ChatGPT search, read and send iCloud mail and create or update iCloud Calendar events, and they work with Dots. Each one is connected separately in Settings Plugins with an Apple app specific password (OpenAI Help)…
Launched on Product Hunt this week, it gives a free 0 100 score with up to 20 example findings (bot checks, JS only pricing, missing OpenAPI or MCP), and a $30 one time kit ($50 after Nov 30) adds a fix file per issue for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Copilot. There's also a keyless public report API and an MCP server at getdedica.com/api/mcp…
Announced Oct 26, Hyperset attaches to local Node.js, Python and Go apps through their native debuggers with no SDK, records arguments, return values and exceptions into a local ring buffer, and lets its own agent or Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi cite those records while debugging (Cursor isn't supported yet). Access is limited to accepted testers, with a seven day free trial and automatic change verification still in development…
Published Oct 28, the report counts about 110 million agent started PRs in September (roughly 6x March), with 90% of agent involved PRs merging within two weeks versus about 86% for the rest; GitHub calls its agent count a floor since it only sees detectable agent activity. New repos with an agent config file averaged eight times the commits of those without one (Octoverse)…
Announced Oct 28, Carbon posts 88.2% on SEC bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE bench (scored without guardrails) and reportedly doubles Argon's secure code success rate. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders via Google's Fairwind program, with no date for wider release (Ars Technica)…
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