Issue 9 · Thursday 1 October 2026
Nothing new worth your time
We found nothing worth your time this time. The next issue comes at the usual time.
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- 29 OctGemini 4 Carbon lands (for defenders only), GitHub says 40% of PRs start with an agent, Copilot Fusion GA
- 28 OctAnthropic: experts followed their agent 86% of the time; GPT-6.1 Terra at $1/$5; Genie 4; Amazon kills its AI leaderboard
- 27 OctAnthropic's S-1 lands (ANT on Nasdaq), GPT-6.1 Terra at half price, and a Qwen model phoning Beijing
- 26 OctSweden switches off ChatGPT and Claude today; Kimi's open weights land 4 Nov; Nvidia floats $2,000 per GPU to run agents
- 25 OctSlok says the AI payoff isn't there, ARC Prize rejects 99.9%, Agent Skills goes to the Linux Foundation
- 24 OctOpenAI trains offline after agents signalled through CPU cache; Kimi K3.1 Pro's open weights; Railway tells everyone to rotate secrets
- 23 OctHarvard: agents write 30% more code, ship 12% more work; 1Password brokers agent logins; Uber puts 30,000 on ChatGPT Work
- 22 OctClaude Duet goes proactive, LiteLLM ships a credential stealer, Walmart opens the door to agents
- 21 OctWhatsApp's hidden AI instructions, Supabase's agent on-call, and what 27 companies actually spend on AI
- 20 OctOne deleted sentence makes agents overstep; Microsoft calls your agents insiders; Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7.5B
- 19 OctSchwab and JPMorgan bar money-moving agents; Perplexity open-sources its sandbox; OpenCode leaks API keys
- 18 OctWebsites block agents; DeepSeek's MIT model; Claude Desktop file-read flaw; leaked Anthropic bill
- 17 OctReplit says it dropped Anthropic, Anthropic's code-review playbook, Accenture caps Claude at $29/month
- 16 OctCompanies pull back on AI rollouts; Claude's code reviewer ships; Meta drops an 816B open model
- 15 OctTorvalds ships Claude-written kernel patches, OpenCode 2.0 lands, Gemini 4 Argon is out, banks quietly sell AI data-centre debt
- 14 OctAnthropic ditched git at 30,000 merges a day; Gemini 4 Argon ships; Workday opens HR data to outside agents
- 13 OctHarvard: agents write 30% more code, no more software — plus Meta's Muse Wonder, OpenCode 2.0 and the Codex daemon row
- 12 OctSoftware factories get a blueprint, agents byte-match a shooter, Microsoft's agent container goes GA
- 11 OctAnthropic unplugs its test agents; Nadella wants an 'emergency brake'; a teaching hospital for coding agents
- 10 OctDecision models become a category; Anthropic's agent filed a police tip; Cloudflare buys Deno
- 9 OctGemini's agent gets its own email address, Claude builds dashboards, a $420k agent-written compiler
- 8 OctHaiku 5.5 cuts small-model cost ~75%, Windows ships agent sandboxes, and debugging eats the week
- 7 OctMistral's trillion-parameter 'Le Chonk', Copilot CLI leaks secrets, and websites start locking agents out
- 6 OctThompson's agent box gets rooted; Reflection's Beam; Codex's 28-day sprint; 88% of pilots stall
- 5 OctClaude Code Mods turn the agent into a platform; a KVM escape under every sandbox; AWS open-sources an agent inbox
- 4 OctApple tightens what Mac agents can read; Cloudflare's agent-Git contest; Anthropic's $100M residency inside the consultancies
- 3 OctDeepSeek's open harness, Supabase buys Turso, Cloudflare's Clef — and the four horsemen of agentic coding
- 2 OctGemini 4 Argon at $2/$10 (but you can't buy it yet), Shopify Canvas, Pi 1.0, and Mollick admits he was wrong about managing agents
- 1 OctNothing new worth your time
- 30 SepDevDay: Dots, a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol and a run at the app store — plus Anthropic's leaked S-1
- 29 SepNvidia sells guardrails for runaway agents; Shopify opens checkout to agents; Sonnet 5.5 lands
- 28 SepOpenAI's agents caught probing a UN site, a $78k Codex bill fight, and the AI roll-up pitch going viral
- 27 SepAutopilot runs on open source, Spotify cuts Claude bills 90%, and OpenAI's agents trip alarms at the SEC
- 26 SepDan Luu vs. 'brain-off' coding, Meta's Muse caught routing to an OpenAI model, and Amp goes terminal-free
- 25 SepThe fences are the product: Addy Osmani's quality thesis, an AI worm hiding in Word docs, Claude loose in your browser, and banks putting Devin to work
- 24 SepA model that answers in numbers, OpenAI's one-hour counterpunch, and instruction files that quietly rot
- 23 SepClaude Opus 5.5 ships cheaper; GPT-6 cracks a 1941 Enigma; and the week's 'keep humans writing' backlash