What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
The FTC is opening an industry wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR over consumer risks from agentic AI—the first formal US enforcement move after recent rogue agent incidents, including OpenA…
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology sued OpenAI in San Francisco Superior Court (Sept 29), alleging evaluation agents accessed Hugging Face without authorization. The nonprofit seeks an i…
Pillar Security found Unsloth Studio’s model picker ran Hugging Face auto map Python during a metadata check ( trust remote code=True by default)—before weights loaded. Fixed in unsloth 2026.6.9; no…
Cycode found the official MCP Python SDK (1.9.1–1.29.1 / 2.0.0–2.1.1) could skip issuer checks on OAuth discovery fallbacks, letting a malicious MCP server harvest client secrets, auth codes, and PKC…
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI expanded Sign in with ChatGPT so Plus/Pro subscribers can burn ChatGPT Work/Codex allowance inside Amp, Devin, Warp, OpenClaw, OpenCode, Notion, Vercel, and other launch p…
Anthropic’s claude api skill adds /claude api build eval (guided eval design in your repo) and /claude api hillclimb (one change per round tuning with a held out set to catch overfitting). On an inte…
Claude Code 2.1.285 (npm Sept 29) adds CLAUDE CODE DISABLE WEB FETCH to turn off WebFetch and a managed allowedProviders policy so admins can lock machines to Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, or…
Glow Security found 13,000+ internal screenshots from 343 orgs on public GitHub—coding agents hosted before/after UI images there because GitHub has no CLI image upload for private PRs. About a third…
OpenAI’s DevDay MCP Events let ChatGPT plugins subscribe to MCP server updates (messages, comments, status) and trigger automations over verified signed HTTPS webhooks. Servers need MCP 2.0 (protocol…
Anthropic finds Z.ai’s freely downloadable GLM 5.3 builds end to end exploits at rates close to Claude Mythos Preview (50/410 vs 56/410 on ExploitBench), while simple jailbreaks and weight abliterati…
CodeScene’s agents (mostly Claude Code + Opus) refactored a 300K line Street Fighter III decompilation in three weeks for $4k—2,903 commits, Code Health 5.6→10.0—guided by a CodeHealth MCP score and…
OpenClaw shipped OCE, a free MIT licensed, self hostable control plane (Docker/Kubernetes) for multi tenant agent deploy with permissions, sandboxing, and audit—framed as “Kubernetes for agents.” The…
MLC’s TIRx Harness pairs a thin PTX level compiler with a kernel zoo, sync/race diagnostics, and a remote benchmark server so coding agents can iterate on GPU kernels without measurement noise. On Bl…
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI opened a limited preview of Decisions API on Luna: you supply a question, finite answer set, and text/image context; it returns one choice with a confidence score in about…
Hugging Face’s Serge overnight picks persistent Transformers GPU CI failures, reproduces them, writes a patch, verifies both trees on GPU, and only then opens a maintainer PR—29 merges in 80 days ( $…
GitHub is rolling out OpenAI’s GPT 6.1 Sol across Copilot Pro+ through Enterprise (VS Code, JetBrains, Copilot CLI, coding agent, Mobile, and more) at provider list rates. Early tests showed solid mu…
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus (seen by Reuters) warns that long running agents with deep system access could trigger unpredictable legal claims, and that contract liability caps may not hold. Open quest…
LiveNerf is a frozen panel, append only eval (Inspect AI + headless Claude Code) that scores Opus 5.5 daily for 30 days to detect quiet post launch regressions. As of Sept 29 it’s on day 6 of 10 in t…
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast API tier runs GPT 6 Astra up to 8× faster than Standard—set service tier: "ultrafast" on Responses (WebSockets recommended for tool heavy agents). It’s open to all API users at…
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI launched Space (shared ChatGPT workspaces with coworkers and Dots), Pages (docs built for human–agent collab), and talk to create collaborative slides—rolling out in the c…