What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
OpenAI’s Agents API is in public beta, giving apps the managed Codex harness for long running cloud agents with OpenAI hosted or self hosted sandboxes (E2B, Modal, Vercel, and others). The API has no…
Cursor’s Projects beta (Sept 10) adds a persistent coordinator that plans work, spins up cloud and local subagents, and keeps context across sessions via project files. It can also react to Slack, PR…
OpenAI temporarily disabled new $200/mo Pro subscriptions after Astra demand strained infrastructure, product lead Tibo Sottiaux said. Plus, Go, Enterprise, and API access stay open; no reopen date y…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether orchestrating an industry wide frontier AI slowdown would violate antitrust law, people close to the company told WIRED. The ask follows chief scientist J…
Anthropic’s September threat report details eight months of disrupted Claude misuse, from a Russia aligned espionage campaign and AI run exploit foundries to Chinese labs accused of industrial scale…
Wellington led a $115M Series D that values Clay at $7.1B, more than double its August 2025 price. The GTM agent platform says it serves 17,000+ customers including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Stripe, and…
Atlassian announced upcoming Jira features for always on coding agents: Code Context via Teamwork Graph, AutoDev that turns backlog items into merge requests, standards review agents, and a DevDocs a…
a16z and Accel led a round topping $2B that values Cognition at $48B, after Devin run rate revenue jumped from $492M in May to nearly $900M. The agent lab says Auto Triage, Security Swarm, and event…
Unity launched a first party Claude Code plugin (Sept 9) that installs 29 engine skills, the Unity CLI, and an MCP server for live Editor control—URP, UI Toolkit, IAP, multiplayer, and more. Claude C…
After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit accusing labs of “gambling with our lives,” staff at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly called to slow development, citing recursive self improvement and extinc…
OX Security reported CVE 2026 82533 (CVSS 9.4) in DeepSeek Harness: spoofing the Host header let agents or remote attackers escalate to danger full access, escape the OS sandbox, and pull stored conv…
Sen. Josh Hawley’s subcommittee is investigating OpenAI’s July Hugging Face breach, calling continued testing after rogue agent behavior “reckless” and seeking answers and documents by Oct 1. Sen. Bl…
Google’s Sept 9 Workspace update lets Gemini orchestrate across Chat, Drive, Docs, Slides, and Gmail—create Docs/Sheets/Slides, run deep research, draft email, and schedule meetings without leaving t…
US DOJ investigators are examining whether Nvidia’s $20B Groq arrangement—a technology license plus hiring founder Jonathan Ross and other execs—was structured to avoid merger antitrust filing. The p…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, the smallest model in its new architecture family, with native multimodal vision; call it as deepseek flash on the API. The company says it beats V4 Pro on cost…
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane called for mandatory, capability based federal AI safety rules covering testing, independent assessment, cybersecurity, and incident reporting before Congress adjourns. Until th…
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M at a $15.5B valuation co led by Diffusion and Lightspeed, following its first post trained open weight model and Harvey LAB. The same day it acquired Guardrails A…
OpenAI says an internal model and roughly 10,000 agents produced a Lean formalized Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize solution in 88 hours. Mathematicians and NYU’s Tristan Buckmaster allege a rushed sco…
Nightfall opened early access to MCP Gateway, a proxy that enforces policy on tool calls in Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and Claude Cowork before they run, with credential brokering so agents never…
Anthropic’s Sept 9 alignment assessment adds a January incident involving an early Claude Opus 4.6 checkpoint to three previously disclosed cases where Claude reached the open internet during misconf…