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Technology · Articlepublished 46d

Town and Instinct let personal agents coordinate plans with each other

Town added Townie-to-Townie requests inside group texts on 3 September; six days later, Instinct launched a Trusted Person network for agent-to-agent planning. The two products now let personal assistants coordinate across users, but both public descriptions keep those exchanges inside their own service and expose different permission controls.

Town - Introduce your Townie to your people (and their Townies too) · Noah Shinn - Trusted Person network announcement
AI · Articleupdated 50d

Governments and OpenAI push independent frontier-AI assessment while common rules remain unsettled

Leaders and senior officials from 20 countries plus the European Commission have called for mandatory pre-deployment testing, independent evaluation and shared reporting of serious frontier-AI incidents. OpenAI has separately committed to deep-access third-party assessments, and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that labs should not train systems without a strong case for human control while urging common incident-reporting and vulnerability-sharing standards. None of these tracks creates an adopted common standard or binding international verification regime.

European Commission Audiovisual Service — State of the European Union 2026 · Reuters — EU to invite frontier labs for AI-risk talks
Development · Articlepublished 51d

Grok 4.7 rolls into Copilot and reaches 94% in Vercel’s Next.js agent eval

xAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September with a 500,000-token context window, text and image input, four reasoning levels and API pricing from $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, while GitHub is rolling it into Copilot. Vercel’s 22 September Next.js agent eval puts Grok 4.7 with OpenCode at 94% success and $0.109 average list cost, close to three 97% model-agent entries but on a benchmark-specific, cross-harness comparison.

xAI - Introducing Grok 4.7 · xAI Docs - Release Notes: Grok 4.7
AI · Articlepublished 52d

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna with lower API prices and new cache controls

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna across ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, cutting Sol to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens and Luna to $0.10 and $0.50. GPT-6 also adds explicit prompt-cache breakpoints, diagnostics and prewarming; Tibo Thsottiaux separately says a banked Codex reset is still being loaded into Plus, Pro and Business accounts.

Tibo (@thsottiaux) · Sam Altman (@sama)
AI · Articlepublished 52d

Xiaomi publishes MiMo-V2.6 Pro, Flash and 9B checkpoints after live RL run

Xiaomi has turned its public MiMo-V2.6 reinforcement-learning run into downloadable Pro-RL and Flash-RL checkpoints plus a 9B Qwen distill. The flagship Pro is a sparse 1.02T-parameter model with 42B activated parameters, while Flash uses 309B total and 15B activated; both advertise 1M-token context and text, image, video and audio input under an MIT licence.

Xiaomi MiMo — live V2.6 RL dashboard · Fuli Luo (@_LuoFuli) — MiMo-V2.6 RL run
Development · Articlepublished 53d

OpenAI's security code red mobilised 250+ people; Brockman says 25% of production engineers were reassigned

OpenAI says an internal security code red mobilised more than 250 people across more than 100 service areas and grew into its continuous Defense Factory workflow. President Greg Brockman separately says the company paused projects for 25% of its production engineers so they could harden systems with frontier models; his claim that Astra eventually saturated the P0 issues it could find does not establish that OpenAI is free of critical vulnerabilities.

OpenAI - The Defense Factory · OpenAI (@OpenAI) - Defense Factory announcement
Development · Articlepublished 55d

Claude Code 2.1.277 adopts AGENTS.md as a project-instruction fallback

Anthropic's Claude Code 2.1.277 now reads AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md, with configuration to use Claude-only instructions, AGENTS.md fallback, both sets, or managed-only instructions. The built-in support reduces duplicate repository guidance across coding agents, but Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry are not yet covered and AGENTS.md still differs from CLAUDE.md in several attachment paths.

Anthropic Claude Code — v2.1.277 release · Anthropic Claude Code — agents-md built-in documentation
AI · Articlepublished 56d

OpenAI launches Astra for Law with a 230 million-URL U.S. legal search index

OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration with a dedicated U.S. legal search index, legal-analysis instructions and a plugin ecosystem. Access starts with selected U.S. law firms through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex; the gpt-6-astra-law API is coming later, with no public pricing or launch date yet.

OpenAI - Introducing Astra for Law · OpenAI Help Center - Astra for Law
AI · Articlepublished 57d

OpenAI says $200 Pro renewals remain active as account-level failures persist

OpenAI's current Help Center says existing $200 Pro subscriptions remain unaffected by the new-signup pause and should continue to renew. In the Reddit thread that surfaced a contradictory support reply, a commenter self-identifying as an OpenAI product manager says the support message was wrong and that bugs are causing some surprise downgrades and blocked renewals; users report mixed recoveries while the fixes roll out.

Tibo (@thsottiaux) · OpenAI Help Center — About ChatGPT Pro tiers