Shopify added WebMCP checkout (including Shop Pay) for browser agents: get_checkout, update_checkout, and complete_checkout let them read, update, and place orders after buyer auth—no screenshot scraping. It rolls out to eligible merchants alongside Shopify’s hosted MCP server and UCP; Muse and Instinct already partner on agentic commerce.
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI shipped Dots—GPT 6 Astra agents that keep working on dedicated cloud computers with their own browsers and 4,000+ plugins after you log off. Unattended work is read only proactive research; writes go through auto review and Custom Rules. One Dot is included for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium (no chat usage drawdown); specialist org Dots and Agent 365 governance are in enterprise pilots…
Vercel’s Sept 28 changelog puts Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AI Gateway as anthropic/claude sonnet 5.5 , with Zero Data Retention supported. Wire it via the AI SDK, Chat Completions, Responses, or Anthropic Messages APIs, or run npx vercel ai gateway setup and pick it in Claude Code or fx…
IMDEA Networks and UC3M found six of nine chatbot web apps (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, Mistral) send conversation titles, prompts, or screenshots to ad/analytics trackers—often with persistent IDs. Cookie rejection barely helps; Grok was worst, exposing public share URLs to seven trackers by default…
The official MCP Python SDK (1.9.1–1.29.1 and 2.0.0–2.1.1) could send client secrets, auth codes, and PKCE keys to an attacker controlled token endpoint when connecting over HTTP OAuth. Fix is 1.30.0 / 2.2.0; ClientCredentials and PrivateKeyJWT users must also set issuer=, clear stored registrations, and rotate secrets if they connected to untrusted servers…
Anthropic’s status page (14:30 UTC Sep 29) is investigating elevated errors: claude.ai and Claude Code in partial outage, with degraded performance on the Claude API and Console. Claude for Government stays operational; no ETA yet…
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