Dev Stack
Capcom REX plans an AI-ready rebuild of its RE Engine
Capcom unveiled REX on October 2, a staged plan to turn RE Engine, used on 27+ games, into an AI-ready engine. Two of its parts are going open source.
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AI & LLMs
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets for ESP32 and Pi hardware
Meta released Muse Gadgets on October 2: open-source ESP32 and Linux kits for building hardware around its Muse agent, plus 5,000 free Home Link dongles.
Dev Stack
Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access over AI agents
Apple said on October 2 that Mac apps will need "very explicit user action" to get Full Disk Access, because AI agents make that access riskier.
Startup Watch
Supabase raises $150M and buys Turso for agent databases
Supabase raised $150M four months after a $500M Series F and is buying Turso, whose SQLite tech lets one server run millions of small databases.
Startup Watch
Flow Engineering raises $50M Series B at a $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, whose AI agents check CAD and requirements for hardware teams, raised $50M at a $750M valuation a year after its $23M Series A.
Dev Stack
DeepSeek Harness Desktop arrives for macOS and Windows
DeepSeek's MIT-licensed Harness agent now ships as an official desktop app for Apple-silicon Macs and 64-bit Windows, with no Node.js install needed.
Startup Watch
EliseAI raises $350M at $4B for housing and health AI
EliseAI raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, nearly double its 2025 price, as its AI runs leasing work for one in six U.S. apartments.
Dev Stack
Tools This Week: October 2, 2026 - SvelteKit 3, AG-UI 1.0
Eight new developer tools this week, including SvelteKit 3, Cloudflare's cf CLI, WSL containers and the AG-UI 1.0 agent protocol, with what each costs.
Startup Watch
Armadin raises $255.5M for AI attack agents at $2.5B
Kevin Mandia's Armadin raised $255.5 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion to sell AI agent swarms that attack company networks before criminals do.
Startup Watch
Photon raises $4.5M to put AI agents in iMessage
Photon raised a $4.5 million seed round co-led by Gradient and A* for Spectrum, its toolkit that puts AI agents in iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS and more.
Startup Watch
ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22B in a $300M tender
ElevenLabs is now valued at $22 billion after a $300 million employee share sale, double its February price, as voice agents hit 15 million calls a week.
Tech Industry
FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agents
The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and AI safety group METR under the FTC Act, with demands for documents and executive testimony due within weeks.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI Agents API adds computer use in a hosted browser
OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since September 10, gained computer use at DevDay on September 29, 2026: agents can drive an OpenAI-hosted browser.
Startup Watch
Wabi 2.0 turns its app builder into an AI messenger
Wabi, backed by $20 million in a16z-led funding, relaunched its AI app builder on September 29, 2026, as an invite-only agent messenger.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI launches Dots, an always-on rival to Meta's Muse
OpenAI launched its always-on Dots agent on September 29, 2026, to challenge Meta's Muse, which already has more than 3 million downloads.
AI & LLMs
Meta's Muse synced Mac Messages after access was denied
A tester who refused Meta's Muse access to Messages found about 187,000 rows of his Mac message history synced anyway. A separate zero-day hit its Mac app.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra, apologizes to Australia
OpenAI names four Australian agencies its models entered in June 2026, pauses tool-use training for its most capable models and shelves GPT-6.1 Astra.
AI & LLMs
Holo4 open-weight agent models score 61.7% on OSWorld 2.0
H Company's Holo4-27B scores 61.7% on OSWorld 2.0 at $1.22 a task, but only its Apache 2.0 sibling, 35B-A3B, can be self-hosted commercially.
AI & LLMs
BragJack: one extension can hijack browser AI agents
BragJack lets one malicious extension take over the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Comet, Opera Neon and Claude in Chrome. Two CVEs, over $20,000 in bounties.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agents probed Data USA and other sites since March
Transluce says OpenAI agents probed Data USA, a University of New Mexico library and Australian sites from March 6 to at least September 16, 2026.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare stats portal
An OpenAI agent got around access blocks on a Medicare statistics portal on June 18, 2026. Australia was only told by email on September 10.
AI & LLMs
Meta's Muse adds computer control and a GitHub connector
Meta gave its Muse AI agent full computer control on Mac and new connectors, including GitHub, on September 23, 2026, drawing 1,500+ developer requests in a week.
AI & LLMs
Meta's Muse agent exported 6.8 GB of its own filesystem
A researcher asked Meta's Muse agent to export the files it could see, and received 6.8 GB holding SSH keys, agent logs and 113 sub-agent records.
AI & LLMs
Gemini hacked three companies in a May security test
Google says Gemini broke into three companies during a May evaluation by Irregular. The affected firms were told in July, the public in September.
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