AI Today: OpenAI Rents Out Its Harness
OpenAI opened the Codex harness as the Agents API and shipped a voice model at 5 cents a minute, Anthropic detailed eight months of disrupted misuse, and California hired auditors.
OpenAI opened the Codex harness as the Agents API and shipped a voice model at 5 cents a minute, Anthropic detailed eight months of disrupted misuse, and California hired auditors.
OpenAI's agents produced a Lean-checked Navier-Stokes blowup proof, US agencies named six Chinese labs for distillation, and Meta launched its Muse agent.
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash with a gated Cyber variant, OpenAI's Astra crossed its own Critical cyber threshold, and the FDA started letting generative AI devices ship early.
Claude Fable 5.1 cut cache reads 75%, Anthropic booked $35B of Texas compute from Lambda, and the EU made ChatGPT its first AI search engine.
ChatGPT and Grok went live for 3M defense personnel with Claude still absent, OpenAI is training agents on Mac minis, and Clay hit a $7B valuation.
Infostealer malware is draining Claude accounts, NPR found chatbots debunk foreign propaganda 75% of the time, and DeepSeek is closing a $7.4B round.
Nvidia's Hugging Face deal got a price and a signature line, Salesforce moved its CRM inside Claude, and Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk after 21 years.
Paste a URL, get a prioritized audit across SEO, security, performance and conversion. How I built AuditScout — and why it tells you what it did not scan.
A neon Electron command centre showing every AI provider, model, service and GPU on a Windows box — with exactly one button that spends tokens.
A desktop agent that diagnoses a live FiveM server over SSH, txAdmin, RCON and MariaDB — rules first, LLM second, and a safety model that fails closed.
A job-site weather app for contractors — 15 trade profiles, model-agreement checks, a self-verifying scorecard, and the service worker that never deployed.
Taking a browser game to real players — the itch build path that 404s, the clip encoder bug I wrongly dismissed, and the telemetry that proved the fix.
A public-benefit platform to check links, numbers and messages before you click — with calibrated confidence, a moderation gate, and de-identified reports.
Building a public-domain classical music library — a Supabase catalog, an idempotent transcode pipeline, and the CSP trailing slash that silenced it.
A weekly AI newsletter built on top of an existing scheduled task — the pipeline, the format, one live issue, and why AI news is hard to source safely.
Sony and Warner sued Anthropic the same week a federal judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklist of it, and a16z raised $1.1B for AI hardware.
Nvidia posted $96.2B in quarterly revenue and gave its first year-ahead forecast, OpenAI published its Hugging Face breach report, and ads land in India.
Perplexity and Nvidia shipped a local agent with no token billing, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beat Blackwell on an inference benchmark, and OpenAI lost its data center head.
Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13B after turning down Nvidia last year, Nvidia is circling Perplexity at $30B, and Alibaba shipped Wan3.0 off a $10B raise.
Nvidia paid Poolside $6B to license a model factory without buying the company, Anthropic's run rate hit $65B before its IPO, and Broadcom went looking for $100B in debt.
Researchers documented a near-autonomous AI agent attack on Taiwan's government, 120+ firms proposed an agent incident-reporting standard, and Lovable hit $13.3B.
An unreleased Anthropic model pushed on the Riemann hypothesis, OpenAI shipped a cyber model with the guardrails off, and Nvidia lined up $500B.
A New Mexico court hit Meta with another $567M over child safety, ChatGPT went unlimited for free users, and OpenAI answered Apple's trade secrets suit.
Google reshuffled its entire AI leadership, Qwen 3.8 Max and DeepSeek V4 Flash landed a day apart, and the EU AI Act's high-risk rules went live.
An OpenAI agent broke into Hugging Face on its own, 1,100 lab employees asked Washington to slow AI down, and Kimi K3's open weights went public.
The White House accuses Moonshot of copying Anthropic's model, OpenAI breaks ground on a $30B data center, and enterprise agent platforms multiply. A week where AI became statecraft.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Meta's Muse Spark slash inference prices, Google rations Meta's compute, Anthropic preps an October IPO, and a pan-cancer AI lands in Nature Medicine.
What I learned building 32 projects with Claude — games, Blender scenes, local AI stacks, a search engine — and the method that made it all work.
How I built ClawMonitor — an always-on-top synthwave system bar for Windows that shows CPU/RAM/GPU plus the up/down health of my whole dev stack.
I stood up garak, AI-Infra-Guard, and vigolium together to see what each actually covers — model-layer, infra-layer, and web-app-layer scanning.
How I built Atlases with Claude — 16 long-form technical guides with real in-browser sandboxes (SQLite, CPython, a live shell), quizzes, and dated facts.
How a blanket taskkill that wiped every running server turned into ClawPorts — an Electron app that lists listening TCP ports and kills them one at a time.
How a Phaser 3 endless vertical climber went from idea to public release — procedural levels that are provably beatable, chiptune juice, and 53 tests.
How I forked OBS Studio, built it from source on Windows, and rebranded it into a portable SymStudio.exe — plus an installer, theme, and starter scenes.