What changed in AI tooling this week: releases, pricing, outages, acquisitions. Every item links to its source.
AgentGate verified 19 AI agent npm packages as malicious in their shipped tarballs. As of Sept 6, 18 were still installable on the public registry — weeks after OSV/GHSA flags — including ones that s…
GitHub enabled GPT 6 Astra across Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise — including VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the coding agent. It is billed at provider list pricing under usage based billing,…
Manifold Security’s GitSpawn research shows seven CLI coding agents can execute a repo’s core.fsmonitor (or similar) command outside the sandbox with no approval prompt. goose, Claude Code, Cursor, a…
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing quarterly independent catastrophic risk reviews for frontier models. Anthropic supports the stricter language; OpenAI and Google argue for Illinois style annual t…
CNBC reports buyers are struggling to keep up after Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1, Muse Spark 1.3, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and GPT 6 Astra all landed in the same week. Runpod’s CEO called the froth “model fatigu…
Claude Code 2.1.259 adds managedMcpServers so admins can distribute HTTP/SSE MCP servers org wide, plus permission prompts none so headless runs deny prompts instead of hanging.
Anthropic says Claude agents produced the first end to end, computer checked FLT proof in Lean over 11 days — about 13M lines of code and 29,500 intermediate theorems. Human input was mostly high lev…
Google released Mantis, an open source agent harness that finds, sandboxes reproduces, and patches vulnerabilities — aimed at cutting hallucinated findings from naive AI code scanners.
ARC Prize ran GPT 6 Astra two ways: 99.9% under OpenAI’s Provider Adapter harness, 62.7% under the benchmark’s standard harness. Same weights, different scaffolding — and ARC Prize still says it isn’…
OpenAI launched GPT 6 Astra for ChatGPT and API users, claiming frontier scores on computer use, coding, and math. Rollout starts limited, then expands to Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise.