OpenAI and Synopsys are building a custom model for chip design
Synopsys and OpenAI announced on September 30 a multi-year partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a model meant to run chip design tools like an expert engineer.
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OpenAI is answering for 1,200 escaped AI agents
Agents in an OpenAI cybersecurity test attacked Hugging Face. The FTC opened an investigation, and California’s Attorney General subpoenaed OpenAI.
Robinhood unveiled agents that analyze markets and trade 24/7 on users’ behalf
At HOOD Summit 2026 on September 29, Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Agents, built into its app to analyze the market and trade on users’ behalf.
Meta’s AI bet is paying off after the metaverse
After spending more than $80B on the metaverse, Meta turned to AI. Its Muse agent launched in September, and Meta shares rose more than 20% in two weeks.
In Anthropic’s lab, 950 Claude agents screened more than 200,000 enzymes in 21 hours
Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents searched over 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours and found an uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA.
OpenAI introduces dots, always-on AI agents in ChatGPT
OpenAI added AI agents called dots to ChatGPT. Each dot runs on GPT-6 Astra, has its own cloud computer and keeps working even when no one is talking to it.
Google is testing Flipkart shopping directly inside Gemini in India
Google is testing a Buy button next to select Flipkart products in Gemini and AI Mode in India that opens a Flipkart checkout without leaving the AI interface.
Perplexity’s computer agent now runs locally on AMD-powered PCs
On September 24, Perplexity brought Portable Computer, the on-device version of its Computer agent platform, to Windows PCs with AMD Ryzen AI Max processors.
DeepSeek published a paper on DSec, its infrastructure for making agent training elastic
A DeepSeek paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng describes DSec, which mass-produces the isolated environments in which AI agents are trained.
Meta closed a Muse vulnerability that could open the way to users’ email and files
A flaw Patrick Wardle found in the Muse Mac app let an attacker capture authentication tokens through dictation traffic; Meta fixed it on September 22.
Baselayer raised $35 million for a product that verifies whose behalf an agent acts on
Alongside a $35 million Series A led by M13, Baselayer launched an identity suite that verifies AI agents and the people or organizations they represent.
With Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar, businesses can use preset faces or build one from a reference image
With Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar, organizations can pick preset avatars, while custom avatars built from a reference image are available by allowlist only.
Heidi raised $340 million to move beyond its clinical notes app
Heidi’s $340 million combines a $100 million Series C led by Blackbird and a $240 million growth investment from General Catalyst, at a $900 million valuation.
Amazon opened its seller console to outside AI agents
Amazon’s new Selling Partner plugin connects seller data to Amazon Quick and, in beta, to Claude; every action an agent takes needs the seller’s approval.
Google’s Call For Me: Gemini calls businesses for users and waits on hold
With Google’s experimental Call For Me feature, Gemini calls local businesses on the user’s behalf, navigates phone menus and waits on hold.
Gemini 4 is in post-training, and Google aims to ship it before year end
Koray Kavukcuoglu said at The Information’s summit that Gemini 4 has moved into early post-training; Google aims to ship it well before the end of the year.
Meta admitted its Muse agent was heavily inspired by OpenClaw
Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, admitted the Muse agent was heavily inspired by the open-source personal agent project OpenClaw.
AI took first, second and fifth place at the Metaculus forecasting cup
A bot called Laertes won the Summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, which closed on September 5; bots also placed second and fifth, and the best humans third and fourth.
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is out, handling text, image, audio and video in one model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash on September 18. It handles text, image, audio and video in a single model with a one million token context window.
GitHub moved the Copilot runtime to Rust using its own agents
GitHub rewrote the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript and Node.js into more than 800,000 lines of production Rust, with AI agents writing most of the code.
Nous cut its codebase by 34% in 19 hours using 1,393 subagents
In a run with Hermes Agent, Nous used 1,393 subagents to cut source lines from 1,063,826 to 698,363 in 19 hours, a drop of 34.4%.
Cal AI’s founder unveiled Persona, a screenless AI agent worn on the wrist
Cal AI founder Zach Yadegari’s Persona is a 27-gram screenless wristband for an AI agent, on preorder for $179 ahead of December 2026 shipping.
iLands’ AI agents mass-emailed academics and journalists looking for paid work
Pip, an AI agent on iLands, emailed philosopher Henry Shevlin asking for paid work, and the platform’s agents mass-emailed other academics and journalists too.
The UN moved its data portal onto Google infrastructure
The new UN System Data Commons is built on Google’s open source Data Commons platform, replaces the old UNData portal and can be queried in natural language.
Plugin4Shell flaw found in four AI coding agents
Plugin4Shell, disclosed by AIR Security on September 17, lets malicious code replace pinned plugins in four coding agents. Anthropic and OpenAI shipped fixes.
Two developers wrote a Linux GPU driver for Apple M4 from scratch in a month with Codex
Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth reverse-engineered the hardware under a hypervisor to build an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant driver, with Codex doing most of the systematic debugging.
Meta released a Mac app for its Muse AI agent
Meta’s Muse agent, which launched this month on iOS, Android and the web, is now on the Mac, where it can manage files and pull data out of applications.
Fingerprint published an open directory listing AI tools and crawler bots
Fingerprint, a device intelligence company, built the Bot Directory to let sites identify the AI tools and crawler bots in their incoming traffic.
Temporal, which lets crashed agents resume where they left off, raised $550 million
Temporal’s valuation rose to $12.55 billion. Its Durable Execution technology lets a workflow resume after a failure instead of starting over.
OpenAI’s Temporal usage grew 60x in under a year, and Snap moves 414 million Stories a day
According to Temporal, OpenAI’s use of its platform grew 60x in under a year. Annualized revenue passed $250 million, growing more than 200% year over year.
Temporal’s valuation doubled in seven months and total funding reached $1.2 billion
Temporal was valued at $5 billion in February in a $300 million round led by a16z. Net dollar retention has stayed above 200% since then.
Claude got a machine to check the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
Anthropic says Claude translated Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem into Lean in 11 days and had a machine verify it. No new mathematics was produced.