What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
Copilot for JetBrains now lets admins centrally set sandbox enablement, filesystem/network access, and related locks that override user settings. The same release adds /ide to ground Copilot CLI sess…
Devin’s maker shipped SWE 2, scoring 50.0% on its FrontierCode 1.1 Main benchmark—within a point of Anthropic’s Fable 5.1—while claiming 64% lower cost. It’s live in Devin Desktop and CLI now, with W…
Copilot Business and Enterprise admins can now centrally set which agent shell, file, and network actions are blocked, need approval, or run unprompted. Policies apply in the Copilot app, CLI, and VS…
Google launched a standalone Gemini desktop app for Windows 10/11, summoned with Alt+Space over whatever you’re doing. It pulls from Gmail and Drive, hands multi step work to Gemini Spark, and can ge…
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…