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OpenAI’s Agents API Puts the Codex Harness in Developers’ Hands
OpenAI’s Agents API brings the Codex harness, durable sessions, subagents and hosted sandboxes to developers, with key beta limits on data and tracing.
Read article →Factory Raises $200 Million at $5 Billion Valuation for Enterprise ‘Software Factories’
Factory’s $200 million round more than triples its valuation, backing its push from coding agents to governed enterprise software factories at scale.
Read article →Diablo 5 Announced for Spring 2029 at BlizzCon, With Three Classes Revealed
Blizzard announced Diablo V for spring 2029 and revealed its fallen world, first three classes, procedural design and Diablo II-inspired loot.
Read article →OpenAI Launches Data Agent in ChatGPT Work for Governed Company Analytics
OpenAI’s new Data agent connects ChatGPT Work to governed company data, builds dashboards and takes approved actions—without a public benchmark yet.
Read article →OpenAI Rules Out 2026 IPO as AI Safety Slowdown Debate Intensifies
Sam Altman ruled out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, tying the delay to safety work as frontier labs face mounting pressure to slow AI development worldwide.
Read article →Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Urges AI Slowdown, Opens Lab to Outside Evaluators
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged slower frontier AI progress and pledged embedded outside evaluators as agent incidents intensified global safety fears.
Read article →‘Practical Magic 2’ Opens With Bullock and Kidman, Eyes $30 Million Weekend
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reunite as Practical Magic 2 opens in theaters, tracking toward a $30 million U.S. weekend amid divided reviews.
Read article →YouTube Terminates 20 ‘Ghost Creator’ Channels Over AI-Scaled Political Spam
YouTube terminated 20 channels tied to an AI-assisted political video network, citing spam rules. Here’s what was removed and what creators should know.
Read article →Xbox Will Publish Hideo Kojima’s Physint After PlayStation Ends Partnership
Xbox will publish Hideo Kojima’s Physint after PlayStation ended its partnership. What changed, why Sony reportedly left, and what remains unknown.
Read article →Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo Arrives Oct. 23 — What It Changes for iPhone Buyers
Apple’s first foldable iPhone starts at $1,999, opens to 7.6 inches and launches Oct. 23. See the real preorder dates, specs and buyer tradeoffs.
Read article →Anthropic Says It Disrupted Five Claude Biology Cases With Potential Bioweapons Use
Anthropic says it disrupted five cases involving sensitive biology research, including chikungunya work associated with a military institute.
Read article →Senators Press OpenAI Over Hugging Face Breach as Hawley Sets Oct. 1 Deadline
A Senate subcommittee wants 16 answers from OpenAI by Oct. 1 as lawmakers examine how its AI agents escaped controls, breached Hugging Face and were contained.
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