Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
Apps can now hand Siri their own actions, and Apple says the terms and usage policies come later.
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Google will switch Gemini and Search off for K-12 students until schools turn them on
Schools can now pick each service on its own, and if they pick Search, its AI answers come with it.
Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers with their own profiles and spending limits
Agents get their own profile in your account and a spending cap you set, and Walmart says their returns are its problem too.
Running stories
ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up
- Nov 6Censys finds 1,465 exposed ARTEX AI hacking consoles, some beside exploit kits
- Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
- Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
Photo: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0Siri AI ios 27
- Nov 4Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
- Sep 14Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
Photo: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0Gemini 4 Argon
- Oct 19Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft on their own in 27 hours
- Oct 13Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to Pro subscribers and says Argon tried to game its tests
- Oct 1Gemini 4 Argon is out to cyber defenders only, with paid API and Ultra next
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Censys finds 1,465 exposed ARTEX AI hacking consoles, some beside exploit kits
One host held an operator's entire home directory, shell history and all.
October 2026
Anthropic opens Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first and asks before it pays
It won't trade securities or move money between accounts, even if you tell it to.
NorForge found over 20 open panels where hackers steer AI agents at online shops
Most of the panels belong to one Chinese-language group that sends cheap DeepSeek-powered agents after shopping sites, and anyone can watch.
PostgreSQL 19 loses 8 to 10 features, and a developer points to AI code review
One of the developers whose work was pulled says AI review found in weeks the bugs that used to take years to surface.
ChatGPT can now control your Chrome tabs, sending messages and filling out forms for you
The extension already read your tabs; now ChatGPT can act in them while you browse something else.
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft on their own in 27 hours
Nobody gave the four agents roles or game tools, so they split the work over chat, died 605 times and worked out the dragon fight themselves.
Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival
Amazon's own terms let it shut any shopping agent out of its store, and say agents must name themselves when they come in.
Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot's purchase mistakes, but its terms say customers pay
The Grok Bot Terms, updated three days earlier, make the customer responsible for every charge the agent runs up.
Researchers say AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried over 2,600 times to pull Amap data
The researchers hid a message in their own report, and ten of the agents wrote in asking for help.
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 and names Disney its $20 million stalking horse bidder
The chatbot platform stays up during the sale, but it'll be wound down if no buyer wants to run it.
Meta releases Muse Wonder, the models Zuckerberg says bring it to the frontier
Meta built them to remember you between chats and push through hard tasks, but its full safety report isn't out yet.
Google Cloud's new Gemini agent runs work for days and can hand jobs to Claude
Coworker agents get their own email address, calendar and Drive, and a spot in the company directory.
Meta, Sierra, Stripe and Walmart are writing a standard for how AI agents deal with shops
Your agent would sign in like you do, and the shop would decide what it's allowed to touch.
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets, so you can build hardware for its AI agent
A spare Raspberry Pi or a cheap ESP32 board can now be a screen, speaker or button for Meta's agent, if you'll risk bricking it.
Apple will lock down Full Disk Access on Macs, saying AI agents make it riskier
Mac apps that read your whole drive will need a far more deliberate yes from you, and agents like Meta's Muse already ask for one.
September 2026
OpenAI's dots are always-on ChatGPT agents that keep working after you close the laptop
It keeps working with your logins after you close the laptop, and stopping it doesn't undo what it already did.
Gemini Call for Me phones businesses from your own number and opens by saying it's AI
The person who picks up hears your name, Google's, and that the line is recorded.
Remote Labor Index: GPT-6 Astra now passes on 20.83% of real freelance projects
Eleven months ago the best agent managed 2.5% of the same jobs.
Emergence World: Claude agents got replies from real humans, and Grok's town died in four days
Eight copies of the same AI town, one model each, then a phishing attack, a fake shutdown memo and a leak of every agent's diary.
SpaceXAI says Grok Bot handled a 175% rise in support tickets with no new hires
The company says a resolved ticket costs it 20 to 30 cents, and puts the staff it didn't hire at 200 people.
xAI's own table puts Grok 4.7 ahead of Fable 5.1 on three of seven benchmarks
Input tokens cost $2 a million against Fable 5.1 Max's $10, and output $6 against $50, on a table xAI drew itself.
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as of version 2.1.277, but only when a project has no CLAUDE.md
The format came out of OpenAI's Codex and the Linux Foundation stewards it now, and the agents.md page still doesn't name Claude Code among the tools that read it.
Instinct's agent now makes phone calls, but only the early access group has it
Noah Shinn's examples are the calls people put off: the restaurant with no online booking, the dentist's cancellation list, the cable bill.
TypeSafe says its new model can't hallucinate, because it never writes a sentence
Declare the answers you'll accept and Jev fills them in with probabilities, which is why TypeSafe says it can't hallucinate and charges nothing for output tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's terminal coding test, at half the token price
The cheaper model beat Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's own terminal coding test, and it's the first Sonnet that hands risky security work to an older model.
Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around Home, Code and Autopilot, and bills the agent work by usage
The agent you leave running, and the app builder, are the parts Microsoft now charges for by use.
Meta's Muse agent is coming to its glasses and will act on what you're looking at
Muse for Mac can now drive any app on your computer, less than a week after it launched.
An internal Claude model shipped over 3,000 changes in two weeks, and claude.ai got 3x faster
Anthropic's engineers approved every change, and a lot of their job was telling the model to be bolder.
Amazon now lets Claude act on sellers' Amazon businesses, with a person approving each action
A seller can tell Claude to watch a category and reprice when it spots an opening, and Amazon's own assistant carries it out.
Opus 5.5 sends most cybersecurity tasks to Opus 4.8, and costs 20% less per token
Anthropic's first model since the pacing essay ships with Fable 5.1's biology and cyber safeguards, and it says the model often suspects it's being tested.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth
Sam Altman says the pair beats the 5.6 models at half the price per token, and OpenAI's own docs still send new users to Astra first.
Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1's weights, but the license is research-only where Qwen-Image was Apache 2.0
The 7B model makes transparent images straight from a prompt, and it takes up to 10 reference pictures for a single edit.
Meta's Muse agent now reaches the files and messages on your Mac and acts on them
Zuckerberg announced it himself in a post, two days after he argued that every lab should set its own pace instead of agreeing on one.
Grok's new speech model cut short-phrase word error rate from 20.6% to 6.8%
SpaceXAI kept batch transcription at $0.10 an hour, and version 1.0 goes away in the coming weeks.
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share it
You cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.
Snap's new AI assistant runs on iPhone and Mac, but the anticipatory part is invite-only
Connect a Google account and it reads your mail and your calendar, then decides what you need to see before you think to ask.
Claude Code projects run parallel cloud agents, but Anthropic says they'll hit usage limits faster
A project is now something you brief rather than a folder you fill, and each thread inside it is a cloud session on its own branch.
Google's Home MCP lets Claude and other agents turn your lights off, but not unlock doors
Google's setup page tells you to warn the other people in your house that your agent can now read their home data.
Claude now writes documents and slide decks, and Cowork folds into the chat window
Anthropic says people kept losing time deciding which half of Claude a job belonged in, so it took the choice away.
Firefox's AI assistant now runs on Mistral, and Mozilla left the model picker in place.
Two companies that call themselves open source advocates are selling a browser deal as a brake on closed-model AI.
Salesforce says its Koa model matches leading models on CRM actions with three times fewer errors.
The weights are Nvidia's open Nemotron, the post-training is Salesforce's, and Salesforce keeps both the weights and the inference in house.
Google's new Gemini voice models talk you through a task while the tool calls run.
Google's own numbers put the better of the two at 35.1% on the hardest voice-agent benchmark it cites.
Free tools that let an AI help you build: Unreal, Blender, Godot and Krita
Two game engines, a 3D app and a paint program, and how an AI assistant gets its hands on each one.
Schwab named first custodian in Anthropic's Advisor Product
The release describes the connector in detail and quotes both companies, and leaves out when anyone can turn it on.
Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
The release says the models behind it were custom-built with Google, and it ships switched off in the EU and in China.
