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AI News Roundup — October 7, 2026
NYC grills OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta under oath, Trump launches a Super Intelligence Force, ChatGPT gets image ads, and Barclays scales Claude.
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AI News Roundup — October 2, 2026
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents and cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, Nvidia ships an agent safety platform, and AI firms sign a voluntary White House safety accord.
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AI News Roundup — September 27, 2026
OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to the open internet, Salesforce recasts agents as the executor of business logic, and Google outlines Search as an agent platform.
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AI News Roundup — Week of September 14, 2026
GPT-6 Astra ships behind a cyber lock and OpenAI opens a hosted Agents API, while Salesforce gives its agents names and week-long memory. Plus: GitSpawn hits seven AI coding tools, and the EU AI Act gets its first incident report.
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AI News Roundup — Week of August 31, 2026
Claude moves inside the Salesforce trust boundary and agents finally get real identities. Meanwhile, attackers are forging AI crawler headers to hunt for exposed credentials.
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AI News Roundup — Week of August 24, 2026
Agent protocols consolidate under the Linux Foundation and the hyperscalers ship agent infrastructure. Meanwhile, new survey data suggests the controls are lagging the deployments.
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Guides & Analysis
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Agentic AI in Production: A Practical Guide to Running AI Agents Safely
How to run AI agents in production as of October 2026: scoped jobs, agent identities, approval rules, containment, audit trails and the OWASP agentic risks.
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Open-Weight AI Models Just Got Enormous — and Cheap
Trillion-parameter open models, an 80% price cut from OpenAI, and a 27B model that runs on a laptop. The economics of AI shifted this summer.
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AI Agents Go Mainstream: OpenAI, Meta, and Open Source All Ship
ChatGPT reportedly nears a billion weekly users while agent products for knowledge work and coding land from every direction — including MIT-licensed ones.
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Frontier Labs Tap the Brakes: A Big Week for AI Safety
Over 1,000 staffers across frontier labs call for pacing AI progress, OpenAI slows internal agent research, and AI security tooling consolidates.
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Cloud Cost Optimization in 2026: FinOps Practices That Actually Work
Cloud bills keep climbing, but the fixes are well understood. A practical rundown of the FinOps habits that consistently cut 20–40% of spend.
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Windows Endpoint Security: Why Read-Only Audits Are Gaining Ground
Security tooling that modifies your system can become part of the problem. The case for read-only, local-first auditing of Windows endpoints.
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