What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
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…
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI made Codex cloud workspaces persistent and shareable across laptop, phone, and cloud—with voice CLI, a new /agents view, ChatGPT desktop code review, and Codex Security Cl…
At DevDay (Sept 29), OpenAI shipped GPT 6.1 Sol for agentic coding, computer use, and multi step work—claiming near GPT 6 Astra intelligence at one fifth Astra’s token prices. It’s live in ChatGPT Wo…
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 p…
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 sc…
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, o…
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 p…