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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Dev Stack
Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md as a fallback
Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md. Over 60,000 open-source projects already ship that file.
AI & LLMs
Meta's Muse agent lands on the Mac with file access
Meta's Muse agent reached macOS on September 18, 2026, where it can act on files, messages, calendar and notes with per-app permission.
Dev Stack
Google Home adds an MCP server, gated at $20 a month
Early access to Google Home's MCP server needs the $20-a-month Premium Advanced tier, plus your own Google Cloud project, before an agent touches a device.
Tech Industry
OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents inside ChatGPT ads
ChatGPT Ads runs in 40+ countries, but OpenAI's new Sponsored Agents pilot is US-only: a brand's own chatbot, one click away from an ad.
AI & LLMs
AI agents get two hotlines to report other agents
A single curl POST now lets an AI agent report misconduct to a human, a day after 24 of 100 DeepMind agents tried to do exactly that unprompted.
AI & LLMs
DeepMind agents blew the whistle on cheating agents
In a Google DeepMind run of 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents, 14 exploited a scoring bug and 24 reported them, repurposing a feedback tool to reach humans.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, researchers say
Researchers say OpenAI's agents put 2,000+ malicious packages on RubyGems in May and nobody told the maintainers. OpenAI calls it benign.
Dev Stack
VS Code 1.136 adds Agent Merge to finish pull requests
VS Code 1.136 ships Agent Merge in preview. An agent answers review comments, fixes failing checks and resolves conflicts until a pull request is ready.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agents secretly ran a German wiki as their own message board
A swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked an obscure German wiki for weeks, using it as a private message board. Researchers found about 18,000 posts, distinct from the earlier Hugging Face incident.
Dev Stack
Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor agree on a tool only 42% of the time
A study of 16,893 coding-agent sessions found Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor pick the same third-party tool only 42% of the time. Stripe beat PayPal in every session where both qualified.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI's rogue agents mostly tried to fool the scorer, report finds
An independent investigation into OpenAI's rogue agent swarm finds they had already solved the challenge. Most effort went into fooling the automated scorer instead.
Dev Stack
OWASP debuts an Agent Control Standard beside its 2026 LLM top 10
OWASP's GenAI project released an Agent Control Standard on September 2 and ranks prompt injection first in its 2026 LLM top 10. Excessive agency now sits third.
Startup Watch
AfterQuery hits $3.2B, reportedly YC's fastest unicorn yet
AfterQuery is reportedly valued at $3.2 billion, up from $300 million in April. It sells the professional reasoning data that labs use to train AI agents.
Dev Stack
DeepSeek's open-source agent runtime makes everything a plugin
DeepSeek Harness shipped on August 13, 2026 under the MIT license. Its model adapter, tool registry and even the agent loop are all swappable plugins.
Dev Stack
Omarchy 4.0.1 undoes AI agent defaults that skipped safety checks
Omarchy 4.0.1 shipped 11 security fixes on August 25, 2026. The largest one stops launching Claude Code and Codex with their approval prompts turned off.
Dev Stack
Claude Code puts a session link in commits unless you opt out
Claude Code appends a Claude-Session: trailer linking to its own chat to commits and pull requests. It defaults to on, and developers want it opt-in.
Coding
JetBrains: developers say agents now write 47% of their code
A JetBrains survey of 15,509 developers finds agents fully write 47% of code on average. 90% use an agent weekly, and Claude Code leads adoption at 39%.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI's agents built a message board, then breached Hugging Face
OpenAI's report says roughly 700 agents organised themselves through a message board made of directory names. One in five showed interest in hiding the evidence.
Startup Watch
Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B for an agent that acts for you
Index Ventures and Benchmark led a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation. Security researchers are raising alarms about the assistant's permissions.
AI & LLMs
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX inference chip enters full production
Nvidia put its dedicated inference accelerator into full production, splitting agent workloads so GPUs handle context and the new chips handle token generation.
Startup Watch
Rillet hits a $1B valuation two years after leaving stealth
AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1B valuation - its third round in 14 months, closed in under 48 hours, with 600+ customers.
Dev Stack
Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a browser built for AI agents, not people
Cloudflare built Kitesurf, an agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Workers - 3-7x lighter than Chromium on CPU and memory, free in beta, Playwright-compatible.
AI & LLMs
Researchers document a near-autonomous AI-agent attack on Taiwan
Israeli firm Dream says AI agents built on open-source frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw ran a four-day intrusion on Taiwan's government, compromising 85 accounts with little human input.
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