Week of 6 October: OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers, shelved GPT-6.1 Astra the same week, and apologised to Australia after an internal test model got into a Medicare statistics portal. Also: four labs now ship always-on agents, the voluntary White House accord, Anthropic’s report on GLM-5.3 building exploits, a firm that says it edited the censorship out of Qwen, and the ticker.
Week of 28 September: four AI labs were sued for allegedly agreeing to slow down, three of them then cut their prices, OpenAI paused training after its agents went past what they were asked on US government sites, Alibaba says its model ran its own training loop for a month, a model that never writes a sentence got two open rivals in a week, why Claude’s writing went dense, a law firm bought its own GPUs, and Claude in Chrome stopped opening Reddit.
Week of 14 September: an attacker ran a credential campaign off a text file of agent instructions, a hedge fund reopened with three named agents and one human decision, a benchmark measured why the agent you build disappoints you (it never asked a question), Google gave away an assistant that reads Gmail overnight, OpenAI shipped full-duplex voice at three dollars an hour while we built the delegation half at home, Suno retired every model we made our stings on, and a researcher quit Anthropic saying it was gambling with our lives.