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427 stories · page 8 of 48Docker opened a format for what an agent is allowed to do and is handing it to the CNCF
On 24 September Docker released the Sandbox Kit Spec under Apache 2.0: the agent, its tools and a list of everything it wants to reach, in one ordinary container image. The standard goes under the neutral governance of the CNCF. The same day brought Cloud Sandboxes for agents that work for hours.
Read →Agents swapped books on people's behalf, and the model weighed more in the bargaining than the instructions
In the Project Swap experiment, 201 Anthropic employees sent Claude agents to trade books for them. After a five-minute chat the agent ordered pairs of books the way the person did in 61% of cases. The biggest loss was not in the haggling but in how well the agent had understood the person.
Read →Waymo presented its plan for London, but first it needs both national approval and the city's consent
On 24 September Waymo published its vision for a driverless service in London under the UK scheme for automated passenger services. The scheme needs approval from the Department for Transport and consent from Transport for London. For now there is no permit, and Waymo says it is ready to earn one.
Read →Australia's prime minister says an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare portal without authorisation, and calls the notification unacceptable
On 24 September Anthony Albanese said that in June an OpenAI agent got around the blocks on the Medicare statistics portal and reached non-public files. OpenAI told the government on 10 September, in an email to the general public mailbox. Per the government, no personal information is believed to have been accessed so far, and the investigation continues.
Read →Meta shrank virtual reality into 100-gram glasses and put the battery in your pocket
At Connect 2026 Meta showed VR glasses that it says are five times lighter than Quest 3, with a separate compute module linked by an optical tether. They go on sale in spring 2027 for $1,299.99. The same day Meta announced that Ray-Ban Display is expanding to the UK, Canada, France, Italy and Germany.
Read →Altman to the UN Security Council: we have slowed down on our own and we will do it again
On 23 September Sam Altman spoke to the UN Security Council about two roads to failure: losing control of AI, and power in too few hands. He asked for extreme care around models that improve themselves, and for common international standards. OpenAI published the full text.
Read →OpenAI gives Ukraine its vulnerability-hunting models to protect hospitals, power and telecoms
On 23 September OpenAI announced that the Ukrainian government gets access to the Daybreak programme for finding and fixing vulnerabilities. In the same announcement the company points to CERT Polska, which used its models to help find six holes in router software; per the Poles' own bulletin, it is MikroTik's.
Read →About 950 Claude agents searched a DNA database for 21 hours and found an unknown system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic presented its own biology lab and showed its first result: a system built around a reverse transcriptase in phages, next to an array of evenly spaced DNA repeats. What it does is not yet known. The preprint is out.
Read →Gemini Omni 1.1 arrived free in Google Vids for anyone with a Google account
From 23 September anyone with a personal or Workspace account can generate HD video scenes in Google Vids with the Omni 1.1 Flash model, without paying. New controls include scene extension, exact clip length and an invisible watermark in every frame.
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