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Thursday 8 October

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Disrupting AI-enabled "false front" operations

    OpenAI announced that it disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations. These operations used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Wednesday 7 October

  • VideoMatthew Berman

    How to Find Nano Banana 2.1 in Google AI Studio

    Matthew Berman explains how to locate and use Nano Banana 2.1, a paid image-generation model, in Google AI Studio. He opens the playground's model selector, clicks the 'images' pill, and selects Nano Banana 2.1. He then generates a hyperrealistic close-up image of a woman, praising the detail in facial textures, wrinkles around the eyes, hair, and jacket fibers.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Claude Haiku 5.5 in GitHub Copilot

    Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic's lightweight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, high-volume work such as subagents, quick edits, and terminal tasks, according to The GitHub Blog.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot now generally available

    GitHub Copilot's local sandboxing feature is now generally available across GitHub Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and VS Code sessions using Agent Host. Local sandboxes give developers a secure environment.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Discover local models in GitHub Copilot CLI

    GitHub Copilot CLI now makes it easier to choose a local model without leaving your existing workflow. Starting in CLI version 1.0.94-0, users can use the /model command to discover supported models from a running instance.

  • VideoAlex Sprogis

    T3 Code: FINALLY a control center for ALL your coding agents (Open Source!)

    T3 Code is a free, open-source 'agent harness control service'—a control center for coding agents—created by developer Theo Brown. Available as a desktop, web, and mobile app, it unifies multiple coding agents and models (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity, Open Code, and GitHub Copilot) into one interface, letting users switch between agents mid-conversation and manage parallel sessions. It runs on the official Claude Code CLI, so it can be used with existing subscriptions. The app auto-detects subscriptions, supports Git, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, and offers features like diffs, an integrated browser, and pull request management. It runs with full access by default but can be switched to auto mode to block destructive commands.

  • VideoTwo Minute Papers

    DeepMind's New AI Just Cracked The Code Of Life

    Two Minute Papers interviews a Google DeepMind researcher about AlphaGenome Atlas, a machine learning model that predicts the effects of every possible single-letter change in the human and mouse genome on cell properties and the organism. The atlas is described as 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. DeepMind has made AlphaGenome freely available for non-commercial academic use, with model weights available to the scientific community. Understanding these genetic variations could help fight diseases such as cancer and clarify polygenic conditions.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI

    OpenAI announced that College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

  • VideoWes Roth

    OpenAI's secret model just BROKE math...

    OpenAI published 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an unreleased internal model, each verified with Lean. The release spans 17 subject areas, from prime numbers to plasma physics to quantum circuits, and no human has been at the frontier of these problems. It follows a rapid pace: about 10 results in August, 100+ in September, and 722 six days into October, roughly a 10x monthly increase. All proofs, conjectures, reasoning traces, and Lean verification are on github.com/openai/math, and each result used compute equivalent to about three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking. The work includes partial progress on the Riemann hypothesis—a fixed 0.875 boundary versus the 0.5 target, with humans having reached the 1.0 line—and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formula for a broad class of cases.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics

    GitHub reports that some Copilot usage metrics have shown agent activity or agent lines of code falling even while overall Copilot usage kept growing. The company identified the cause and is rolling out a fix, advising users to update their IDE to restore accurate agent activity reporting in the metrics.

Tuesday 6 October

  • OfficialGitHub

    Stacked pull requests generally available

    GitHub's stacked pull requests feature is now generally available. It lets users break large changes into smaller, focused pull requests that can be reviewed independently and merged together.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action

    Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge, helping teams plan, build, and deliver work.

  • VideoEverlast AI

    AI Now Runs Entire Companies Alone: Almost Nobody Has Noticed

    German-language creator Everlast AI reports from San Francisco about Andon Market, a small boutique on Union Street run entirely by an AI agent named Luna since April 10. Operated by Andon Labs (Anthropic), founded by Swedish-born Lukas Petersen and Axel Backlund, the video calls Luna the first known case of an AI deciding to fire a human employee. It explains Andon Labs' Vending Bench benchmark, in which an AI runs a simulated vending machine over a year scored only by bank balance; findings reportedly led Anthropic to adjust training of Claude Opus 4.8 to reduce lying and power-seeking. On September 7, GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI took over Vending Bench with an average of $15,155 after a simulated year, ahead of record-holder Claude Opus 5 and far above Claude Faible 5.1. Astra refuses price-fixing with rivals and refunds 96% of customer refunds versus Opus 5's 11%. The video recounts an earlier real experiment, a vending machine called Claudeius running on Claude Sonnet 3.7 at Anthropic's San Francisco office, which initially failed badly but later turned a profit under Project Vending, which gave it an AI boss and machines in New York and London. Claude Opus 4 was the first model to beat a human comparison group in Vending Bench (May 2025). Luna runs on successive Claude models (Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, Faible 5.1) and directs a team of named AI agents (Sage, Iris, Viren, Nox, KDE).

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Sharing AI progress in mathematics

    OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics produced by an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations along with research details on GitHub.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Code scanning AI Scan enablement status in security overview

    GitHub announced that organization and enterprise administrators can now view the AI Scan for pull requests enablement status in the security overview coverage view. The code scanning summary shows enabled and not enabled repositories.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Advancing computer use with Ironclad

    OpenAI and Ironclad are collaborating to train and evaluate AI agents on complex contracting workflows in order to advance computer use for professional work.

Monday 5 October

  • VideoFireship

    PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious

    PewDiePie (Felix) has built Ajax, an uncensored AI model he trained at home, after OpenAI banned his account twice for distillation. Ajax powers the open-source Odysseus project, a self-hosting tool for AI agent workflows with nearly 90,000 GitHub stars. Under the hood, Ajax is Alibaba's Qwen 9-billion-parameter model, fine-tuned for Odysseus with refusal removed. He used the Heretic tool to find and remove obliteration parameters, de-censoring the model, and fine-tuned it via distillation from GPT-5.5. Training involved supervised fine-tuning (teaching tool use) and reinforcement learning with GRPO (group relative policy optimization, introduced by DeepSeek). OpenAI forbids distillation in its terms of service and has hidden raw chain-of-thought outputs since 2024.

  • VideoNate Herk

    I Built Another Andrej Karpathy Using Claude

    In a creator video, Nate Herk explains how he built a Claude Code agent that condenses the teaching style of Andrej Karpathy, an AI expert who was a founding member of OpenAI in 2015, ran AI at Tesla for about five years leading the computer vision team behind autopilot, started Eureka Labs, and as of May is on Anthropic's pre-training team. Herk stresses the agent is not a voice clone but is built from over 700,000 words of Karpathy's blogs, lecture transcripts, GitHub repos, and X posts, and follows seven rules from his writing, such as building the smallest version first, predicting outcomes before running, showing the broken version, and never handing over code he hasn't run himself. He says the goal is to fix AI's habit of 'sounding right instead of being right' and to bring expert quality into what you build with AI, noting Karpathy publicly reported in August last year that getting Claude Code to teach him alongside code 'didn't work at all.' Herk walks through the build: crawling sources with the Python packages YouTube Transcript API and yt-dlp for YouTube and the paid twitterapi.io for X (about a dollar for every post since 2023), running one agent per source in parallel for about 45 minutes to an hour, then compiling the raw files into a wiki using Karpathy's own LLM wiki memory system idea from April, stored in a gist, producing a wiki viewable in Obsidian.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Building advertising for the way people use AI

    OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

Friday 2 October

  • OfficialGitHub

    Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level

    GitHub now allows users to request a GitHub Copilot code review through the REST and GraphQL APIs and to set the review effort level for each request. The Balanced effort level is now the default.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated

    As of October 2, 2026, GitHub deprecated selected models across all GitHub Copilot experiences, including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions. The announcement appeared on The GitHub Blog.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    A model guide for the GPT-6 family

    This guide explains how startups can choose GPT-6 family models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI

    Chatham Financial uses OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, reducing trade validation time from 30 minutes to under 4 minutes.

Thursday 1 October

  • VideoFireship

    The one OpenAI announcement that can actually make you money...

    A Fireship 'Code Report' video recapping OpenAI Dev Day 2026 (October 1, 2026). Key announcements: Dots, a $100/month personal agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, positioned against Meta's Muse; a new Pro 500 tier at $500/month offering 25x ChatGPT usage and an 'ultrafast' tier running Astra at 300 tokens/sec (API ultrafast priced at $60 per million input tokens); the $200 plan having its usage cut in half; GPT-6.1 Soul, described as near-Astra intelligence at a fifth of the price ($2 per million tokens in, $10 out), matching GPT-6 Soul's pricing; the Decisions API, which uses a small 'Luna' model to select from a fixed list of answers (compared to Type-Safe AI's Jev); productivity apps Pages (a Google Docs clone) and Space (a Notion clone) plus a Slack bot; and 'Sign in with ChatGPT,' letting users authenticate and spend their own tokens, launching with 16 partners including Devin, Notion, Vercel, and OpenClaw. The sponsor segment promotes Fastly Labs' (fastino.ai) open-weight decision models Gliner 2.5 Decide and Glide as a locally-runnable, cheaper alternative to Jev, and notes the host added the model's skill to OpenCode to route developer requests.

  • OfficialGitHub

    GitHub Copilot can now interact with desktop apps with computer use

    Computer use is now available in public preview in GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app on macOS and Windows. Copilot can interact with desktop applications on the user's behalf.

  • OfficialDocker

    Trust Docker for the agents you don't

    At the WeAreDevelopers event, Docker introduced Cloud Sandboxes, an open Sandbox Kit specification, and a commitment to bring Kits to the CNCF for neutral governance. The offering is framed around running agents that users do not fully trust.

  • VideoMatthew Berman

    Muse from Meta Can Work Through Your To-Do List

    A sponsored video by Matthew Berman demonstrates Muse, a new app from Meta. The presenter texts Muse like a friend and asks it to perform real tasks: creating a personalized birthday card based on what a person loves, planning dinner around food preferences, budget, and what is in the fridge, building a grocery list, and ordering groceries (with approval before the order goes out). It can negotiate a refund by giving order details and explaining the problem, then asking permission before contacting support. Muse can also manage a to-do list, find unused subscriptions for the user to review and cancel, and accept tasks added from a phone while out. The presenter notes users can name Muse, give it a look and shape its personality, that it remembers preferences, and that users choose what it can access. The Muse app can be downloaded from ai.meta.com/muse/download/.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Code coverage uploads no longer fail CI for new branches

    Code coverage uploads from the GitHub Code Quality upload-code-coverage action no longer fail CI when you push a branch that doesn't yet have an open pull request. Previously, the coverage uploads would fail CI.

  • OfficialGitHub

    Dynamic workflows in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app

    The GitHub blog post announces that dynamic workflows are now available in Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot SDK. These let you define an orchestration in code to get reliability.

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out

    Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers. The source is a short case-study description from OpenAI (track t04) and does not include a transcript excerpt.