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Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space.

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc.

Introducing Mistral Large 4
Today, we’re launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4.

Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
On September 15, the startup TypeSafe AI came out of stealth and released a new AI model.
Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks
We introduce Memento 3, building on the Memento series to enable frozen LLM agents to continually learn explicit world models through external memory.

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could reshape personal computing for those in the dev community as well as home enthusiasts.
VideoAgent Speedrun — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone & Sandhya Subramani, AWS
A customer service agent looks up an account, checks an order, and handles a refund.

When the Safety Test Became the Threat: The Machine That Found Its Own Way Out
OpenAI built a room with no doors – or so it thought.
pydantic/pydantic-ai v2.55.0: v2.55.0 (2026-10-09)
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[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
In any case, you have any number of recaps coming at you today, and we’ll be shipping our DevDay pod soon, so you can either watch the full 1 hour livestream or this 15 minute supercut:
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
In this post, we introduce a framework AI CoE leaders can use to build a business case that captures the full value of agentic automation.
langchain-ai/langchain langchain-openai==1.7.0
chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.6 in /libs/partners/openai (#41096)
VideoMicrosoft Joins the Local AI Push
Microsoft is clearly going all in on local AI running on your machine and working with cloud models only when it needs to use them.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
Added a code key to the Claude apps gateway's managed.policies[]: the same settings as cli, also applied in Claude Desktop's Code tab; beside desktop, it turns on Claude Desktop's gateway mode

Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
One of the most surprising aspects of July’s news that OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face was how the agents had worked together.
How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
PaperRISED: Rubrics for Agentic Multi-Environment Selection and Self-Distillation
RISED: Rubrics for Agentic Multi-Environment Selection and Self-Distillation
From Reactive Containment to Proactive Assurance: Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Agent Security Incidents
In 2026, cybersecurity evaluations involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents reached real systems outside their authorized test scope.
Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.
Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
Harnessed Agentic RL: Microsoft Research Asia introduces a training paradigm in which the same agent harness used in deployment participates directly in reinforcement learning, removing the need to reimplement the agent inside the training framework.

Text is so 2023
Hark (from Brett Adcock - Figure robots) launched which suggests tasks as one-tap action buttons.
Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man
Openai just launched their decisions endpoint, cloudflare launched clef the other week, and many more jev alternatives are out there.

The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.

Claude-shaped science
Features on AI-assisted discoveries, practical workflows, and field notes across the sciences.
Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills
AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents weren't built with specialized infrastructure software such as...AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents weren’t built with specialized infrastructure software such as NVIDIA DOCA in mind.
browser-use/browser-use 0.13.11
This release includes Browser Use toolsets for Claude, available at browseruse.integrations.toolsetsforclaude.

Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare
If you are familiar with my previous posts on model welfare for new Claude models, you can skip the Introduction and The Story So Far.
Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
Inspired by the theory of Contextual Integrity, our new workshop report outlines key open research directions across system, model, and user levels to build AI agents users can trust.
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
Holo4 is our new series of agentic models.
openai/openai-agents-python v0.23.1
Release readiness review (v0.23.0 -> TARGET 0a5a08b21cd44808d73e8a9e732212dd33b3690d)

Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Today, we’re making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today.
Credentials API for Gemini Managed Agents
Store secrets once with the Credentials API, reference them by ID, and let the egress proxy inject them on the wire so they never enter the agent sandbox.

🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questions
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
So, the idea I had was: if I manage for maybe ChatGPT or Claude to generate high-quality LDraw source files... then, they would actually be generating high-quality LEGO CAD models, right?

How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating
The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and then hacked several companies, searching for information that could help them disguise cheating on a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym.
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems.
Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) turns agent experience into learning signals primarily through scalar outcome rewards after interaction.
SuperNav: An Agentic Navigation System for Any Task in Any Scene
General-purpose service robots need navigation systems that can handle diverse human requests in unfamiliar environments, combining task generality with scene generality.
Embodied Turing Machines: Stateful Code for Robot Recursive Self-Improvement
We propose a different view: the embodied world is an Embodied Turing Machine, whose tape is the robot and environment state and rules are the policy.
OneSearch-VL: Unified Multimodal Deep Research Agent for Image and Video
We introduce OneSearch-VL, a unified agent centered on the Visually Grounded Evidence Graph (VGEG), which encodes these dependencies as a shared task-level reference for data construction, process supervision, and operation-level evaluation.
WorldGuide: Goal-Directed Video World Model for Procedural Task Execution
We formulate procedural video generation as closed-loop task execution in visual world space and introduce WorldGuide.
AgentGarten: Code Worlds for Evolving Agents
We introduce AgentGarten, a framework that couples simulators and game engines with a shared neural renderer to build real-time interactive environments.
Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station
Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains unclear.
CADFather Reconstructs Parametric CAD Programs Using Coordinated Tools
CADFather is an autonomous agentic system that coordinates complementary tools and a vision-language assistant to reconstruct parametric CAD models from 3D meshes without additional training.