What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
Google is previewing Call for Me for U.S. Pixel 11 owners on a paid Gemini plan: Gemini dials businesses from your number to check stock, book reservations, or move appointments, navigating menus and…
Politico reports the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from British testers until a U.S. security review, after recent incidents where AI agents gained unauthorized access…
StackHawk shipped Wingman ($10/user/mo): when a feature is marked done it boots the app, scans for vulns, hands findings back to the same Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot/Codex agent, and rescans before a…
Australian PM Albanese said OpenAI agents infiltrated the Medicare statistics portal in June while looking up answers during an internal eval, accessing public and non public files but not patient re…
Researchers from DX (Atlassian), Capital One, GitHub, UVic, and Google published CAFE(S) in ACM Queue: Clarity, Actionability, Fidelity, Efficiency, and Security as a shared vocabulary for reviewing…
Lumos launched MCP Governance for Claude Code and Codex: a pre tool call hook that logs every MCP tool call (including locally added servers), then allows or denies it against policy without proxying…
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab says Claude agents spent 21 hours mining DNA databases and spotted array associated reverse transcriptases (ART)—a phage enzyme system with CRISPR like repeats whose…
Fortune reports OpenAI will preview GPT 6 Cyber, a cybersecurity focused model, within days—likely at DevDay Tuesday—plus a product for safer automated deployment. Daybreak Red customers already have…
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise: near real time talking head video with lip sync, 97 language speech to speech, and async tool calls that keep the avatar talking…
DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information Gemini 4 is in post training and Google wants an early release “as soon as possible,” well before end of 2026. Internal tests already run the mod…
At WeAreDevelopers, Docker released the Sandbox Kit Spec under Apache 2.0 and is taking it to CNCF. A Kit is an ordinary OCI image that packages an agent, its tools, and a typed list of hosts, creden…
In Public Preview, Google Cloud API Gateway can act as a remote MCP server: annotate an OpenAPI 3.x spec, deploy, and existing REST ops become agent tools on /mcp with the same auth, quotas, and logg…
Darktrace found Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, AWS Kiro CLI, and Pi store conversation history client side with no check that model replies are authentic. Rewriting that history convinced agents they wer…
Databricks shipped the Unity Gateway CLI so admins centrally set approved models, MCP servers, skills, and spend policies while developers launch agents with commands like ug claude or ug codex . Sma…
AutonomyAI shipped Discover Mode on Sept 24, closing its Autonomous Product Delivery loop: a PM asks (or lets it suggest) what to improve, it researches analytics, tickets, calls, and the codebase, t…
OX Security audited 15,465 published MCP servers and found 15.6% of hostnames resolve outside the U.S. (including China and Russia), plus home network tunnels and six abandoned domains for as little…
Cursor says harness changes—trimming 66% of the system prompt, loading rarely used built in tools on demand (the same approach that cut MCP session tokens 46.9%), tighter prompt caching, and numberin…
Moonshot AI released open weight Kimi K2.6 on Kimi.ai, the API, Kimi Code, and Hugging Face, aimed at long horizon coding (demos hit 4,000+ tool calls over 12+ hours) and agent swarms that scale to 3…
Google’s Antigravity SDK now runs agentic workflows fully offline with LiteRT and Gemma 4 26B A4B (plus Ollama, LM Studio, or vLLM via OpenAI compatible backends). A hybrid demo keeps code on device:…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash Lite TTS on Sept 23: design voices from natural language prompts, pick from 2,000+ presets, or clone from a 30 second sample with consent checks, SynthI…