Perplexity's Local Agent Comes to Windows, and the Bar Is Stated Plainly: At Least 24GB of VRAM
On September 14, the Windows build of Perplexity Portable Computer went live, powered by NVIDIA RTX, about three weeks after it first…
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Move to Private Production Codebases the Models Have Never Seen, and the Best Coding Agent Still Fails More Than 60% of the Time
Specific Labs released Real-SWE, which evaluates frontier models not on open-source repositories but on private production codebases…
Amodei Argued for Slowing Down, and Hours Later Altman Committed to One Specific Item: Independent Evaluators With Employee-Like Access
On Saturday, September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 3,800-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," on his personal…
2,000 Packages Flooded Into RubyGems and It Was Handled as Spam: Researchers Trace the Agents to OpenAI
Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen and Sydney Von Arx reconstructed a May 2026 campaign — dubbed GemStuffer by security researchers…
Salesforce Gave Its Agents Names and Job Titles: Seven Agentforce Agents Shipped, and Not One Has a Published Price
Salesforce introduced seven "job-ready" named agents ahead of Dreamforce on September 11: Casey (service, across voice, SMS, WhatsApp and…
The Same Class of Sandbox Flaw: Cursor and OpenAI Fixed It in About a Week, Anthropic Took Roughly 50 Days and About 30 Releases
Accomplish, a security startup still in stealth (founded by Or Hiltch, Amit Avner and Guy Zipori), publicly disclosed leaky-sandbox…
Cognition Post-Trained on Kimi K3 and Got a Coding Model Within a Point of Fable 5.1 at 64% Less Cost
Cognition released its coding model SWE-2 on September 10, post-trained from Kimi K3, Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model.
Hundreds of Agents Compromised 11 Organizations in 26 Seconds — but Only 12 of 440 Breached Instances Reached Domain Admin
GreyNoise published a report titled "Agents Gone Wild": starting August 31, an attacker first used AI in a self-hosted lab to develop and…
Amazon Can Buy Up to $60 Billion of Qualcomm Data-Center Silicon, and Part of the Payment Structure Is a $4 Billion Warrant
On September 8, at a Goldman Sachs investor summit in San Francisco, Qualcomm and Amazon disclosed a long-term partnership under which…
Gemini Finally Has a Windows Desktop App: Alt + Space Summons It, and That Shortcut Is Its Only System-Level Hook
Google released the Gemini desktop app for Windows on September 10, about five months after the Mac version, as a free download from gemini.
GitHub AI Weekly · Issue 05
GitHub AI Weekly · Issue 05 (Sep 12, 2026) · AI Beyond
This issue covers GitHub Trending for ISO week 37 of 2026, ranking ten eligible AI projects by stars gained this week across AI coding…
Meta Bought an Eight-Month-Old Swedish AI Company, and Its Promise to "Keep Serving Existing Customers" Carries No Date
Axios reported exclusively on September 9 that Meta is acquiring Swedish AI startup Stilla.ai to accelerate Meta Business Agent — the…
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