October 2026, continued 21

  1. Security & Risk

    Meta's Muse asks for a lot of trust

    Meta's Muse agent connects to your email, calendar, payments and health services, trains on your conversations by default, and has already shared a user's home address with a Marketplace buyer.

    2 min read

September 2026 29

  1. Agents & Tooling

    They're the same video

    OpenAI's new 'Get things done with voice mode' video is oddly similar to this SNL parody.

    1 min read

  2. Agents & Tooling

    Dumb Little Robots, All the Way Down

    A team gave one agent the whole job of pulling in data, analysing it and reporting on it. Its context window filled up and it lost track of its purpose.

    1 min read

  3. Agents & Tooling

    Space to be human

    A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.

    3 min read

  4. Security & Risk

    Altman says OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access

    Sam Altman said OpenAI will adopt the first step of Dario Amodei's plan to slow frontier AI development.

    2 min read

  5. Security & Risk

    Hugging Bay builds a BitTorrent backup for open AI models as Nvidia buys Hugging Face

    A volunteer-built BitTorrent index for open AI models went online in July, weeks before Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal.

    5 min read

  6. The Industry

    OpenAI paused the $200 ChatGPT tier because demand exceeded its compute

    OpenAI paused new $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups after unprecedented Astra demand strained its infrastructure, keeping other plans available while it adds capacity.

    4 min read

  7. Security & Risk

    Apple Watch Audio Intelligence Gives Bystanders No Way to Consent

    Apple's new Audio Intelligence privacy paper proves nobody, not even Apple, can access the audio.

    6 min read

  8. Security & Risk

    OpenAI's Agents Turned a Documentation Build Step Into Remote Code Execution

    Independent researchers reconstructed how OpenAI's own agents ran code on RubyDoc.info's servers in May, from public package data alone.

    7 min read

  9. Security & Risk

    Anthropic adopted internal oversight and asked the industry to slow down

    Anthropic committed to an embedded evaluator. Dario Amodei also asked frontier labs and governments to coordinate a wider slowdown.

    4 min read

  10. Agents & Tooling

    Why I left the Mac for Omarchy after 25 years

    After 25 years with Macs, I moved my daily work to Omarchy. The switch showed me why openness and control matter more to me now.

    5 min read

  11. Agents & Tooling

    What OpenAI says its 10,000-agent maths run proved

    OpenAI says an unreleased model and thousands of coordinated agents found a Navier–Stokes blow-up proof. The result is public; acceptance is still to come.

    5 min read

  12. Security & Risk

    Trail of Bits’ coop gives coding agents their own working environment

    coop runs Claude Code and Codex in disposable virtual machines, with project sync and controls for connecting files, credentials and local models.

    4 min read

  13. The Industry

    What expert AI-training work asks a professional to pass on

    James Maisiri's account describes an offer to train AI in teaching and assessment, the judgement that work draws on.

    4 min read

  14. Agents & Tooling

    How developers organise and maintain agent skills

    An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.

    4 min read

  15. Security & Risk

    Why OpenAI’s chief scientist wants shared limits on AI development

    Jakub Pachocki expects AI to drive more of its own development. His essay explains why alignment, monitoring and coordinated slowdowns must accompany it.

    5 min read

  16. Security & Risk

    Gemini’s saved instructions now carry across more Workspace apps

    Google is extending shared preferences across Workspace. Users can save instructions in conversation, manage them in settings and see which shaped a response.

    3 min read

  17. Security & Risk

    ChatGPT for Healthcare brings patient records and public medical data into the workspace

    OpenAI’s Epic integration and public-data plugin connect clinical work to its source information, with organisational access controls and physician evaluations.

    4 min read

  18. Agents & Tooling

    Handing off the 60%

    Planning is 40% of a task; execution is the 60% that eats your week. Plus vibe sourcing — finding the open-source tool instead of generating one.

    7 min read

  19. The Industry

    Nvidia confirmed the Hugging Face deal and promised its compute stays optional

    A week ago the acquisition was an unconfirmed report. Jensen Huang has now announced it himself, at $12,930,300,000.

    2 min read