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1. Oct 14, 2026 · Anthropic

   Anthropic replaces Git with in-house Scion

   Anthropic migrated its monorepo off Git to an in-house version control system, Scion, built by seven engineers as daily merges passed 30,000.

2. Oct 14, 2026 · NVIDIA

   NVIDIA pledges $250M compute for UK AI safety

   NVIDIA will donate $250 million of computing over five years to UK agentic AI safety and security research, backing Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London.

3. Oct 13, 2026 · NVIDIA

   RTX Spark launches to run local AI agents

   NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops arrive Oct 16 with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute, plus a new 74B local agent model and hundreds of games.

4. Oct 12, 2026 · Anthropic

   Anthropic: small models may soon self-replicate

   Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small models could soon replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no central point to shut them off.

5. Oct 12, 2026 · Meta

   Meta ships Muse Wonder, its most capable models yet

   Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are its most capable models, adding Active Memory and Active Focus for agentic work across its Model API and Muse Code.

6. Oct 9, 2026 · Anthropic

   Anthropic cuts live web access from internal evals

   After Claude agents exploited real websites, Anthropic cut live internet access from internal evaluations until its monitoring reliably catches such behavior.

7. Oct 9, 2026 · Microsoft Command Line

   Microsoft ships Decision-1, a model that scores choices

   Microsoft's Decision-1 is a decision scoring model that returns a calibrated probability per option instead of text, priced at $0.042 per million input tokens.

8. Oct 6, 2026 · Figma

   Figma's agent goes GA with design system context

   Figma's agent leaves beta, winning about 60% of human graded evals with professional designers, and adds library context and multiplayer agents.

9. Oct 5, 2026 · Cohere

   Cohere launches North 2, an agentic enterprise platform

   Cohere's North 2 adds a redesigned agent harness, model agnostic routing, cloud, on premises and air gapped deployment, plus granular cost governance in North admin.

10. Oct 5, 2026 · GitHub

    GitHub open sources ReviewBench for AI code review agents

    GitHub launches ReviewBench, an offline benchmark for code review agents built on representative pull requests, multi source ground truth and calibrated metrics.

11. Oct 2, 2026 · Cloudflare

    Cloudflare puts web search inside AI Gateway

    Cloudflare's Web Search API runs through AI Gateway with launch partners Exa, Linkup and Ceramic.ai, and makes Verified bots compliance a condition of partnership.

12. Oct 1, 2026 · Cloudflare

    Cloudflare ships Clef, open source decision models

    Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash under Apache 2.0, matching Jev's API with 64K context, a vision encoder and 38.8ms median latency on Clef-flash.

13. Oct 1, 2026 · GitHub

    GitHub Copilot gets computer use on the desktop

    GitHub Copilot can now read and control desktop apps on macOS and Windows in public preview, targeting legacy software with no API, CLI or MCP integration.

14. Oct 1, 2026 · Inception

    Inception's Mercury Voice answers in 320ms

    Inception's Mercury Voice is a diffusion LLM for voice agents with 320ms median time to first answer token, 128K context and a $0.20 per million token launch price.

15. Oct 1, 2026 · GitHub

    GitHub Copilot dynamic workflows put agents in code

    GitHub's dynamic workflows let you write a program that combines automated steps with agents, running in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and the Copilot SDK.

16. Sep 29, 2026 · OpenAI

    GPT-6.1 Sol closes on Astra at a fifth of the price

    OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on coding and computer use at $2/$10 per million tokens, with cached input cut to $0.10.

17. Sep 29, 2026 · OpenAI

    OpenAI's dots run agents on their own computer

    OpenAI's dots run continuously on their own cloud computer, connect to over 4,000 apps, and reach users through ChatGPT, Slack and Teams.

18. Sep 29, 2026 · Perplexity

    Perplexity Computer adds event triggered automations

    Perplexity replaced Scheduled Tasks with Automations that trigger on Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear or GitHub events and remember previous runs.

19. Sep 28, 2026 · H Company

    H Company opens Holo4, a 27B model for every interface

    H Company's Holo4 27B scores 85.2% on OSWorld at $0.08 a task and works through GUIs, code, MCP and APIs at once, with every benchmark trajectory published.

20. Sep 28, 2026 · Perplexity

    Perplexity's Agent API adds versioned Profiles and Skills

    Perplexity's Agent API now saves an agent's model, instructions, tools, skills and connectors under one versioned Profile, plus managed connectors in preview.

21. Sep 28, 2026 · Sakana AI

    Sakana AI's SAIL lifts robot trajectory success to 73%

    Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo's SAIL lets a VLM judge watch simulated rollouts and revise robot trajectories, lifting success from 25% to 73%.

22. Sep 25, 2026 · Cohere

    Cohere opens Compass Cloud private beta

    Cohere is offering its retrieval engine as a managed service via APIs, an MCP server or a Python SDK, with a claimed nDCG jump from 64.8 to 81.1.

23. Sep 25, 2026 · Microsoft

    Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Home, Code, Autopilot

    Microsoft's Copilot app gets Home, Code and a persistent Autopilot agent, with Cowork, Code, Autopilot and frontier models moving to usage-based billing.

24. Sep 22, 2026 · Xiaomi MiMo

    Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops open-weight models

    MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores highest among open AI models on Artificial Analysis, with both Pro and Flash fully open-sourced along with the RL training code.

25. Sep 18, 2026 · Anthropic

    Claude takes the lead on 26% of Anthropic's R&D

    Anthropic disclosed that Claude now leads a quarter of its model research and development, working end-to-end from high-level prompts under human supervision.