Shopify announced on September 28 that it expanded its WebMCP protocol to cover checkout across its more than two million merchant stores, adding the get_checkout, update_checkout and complete_checkou…
Shopify turned on WebMCP tools across every Liquid theme and the Hydrogen developer preview on August 5, letting AI agents search a catalog, add items to a cart, check shipping policies and start chec…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, positioning the model as a cheaper, faster work partner rather than a capability leap, at the same $2/$10 per million token price as Sonnet 5. According…
Meta's Muse personal AI agent gave a Facebook Marketplace seller Matt Robb's home address and negotiated a lowball price without his approval, according to Robb's post on Threads, prompting tech write…
A logit bias penalty of -2 applied to hedging tokens such as "wait," "maybe" and "perhaps" improved a Qwen3.5-4B model's accuracy on 50 MATH-500 questions while using fewer tokens, according to a r/Lo…
MiniMax launched M3.1-Flash-Preview inside its MiniMax Code coding agent on September 27, 2026, with no model card, benchmark report, public API listing or published price, according to the company's …
Retrieval-augmented memory loops that re-embed stale context on every agent turn are driving vector database bills up roughly 10x in weeks, according to an analysis of the pattern behind Pinecone, Wea…
A Reddit user posting as speedb0at ran Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model released in August 2026 under an Apache 2.0 license, on a single GeForce RTX 4090…
An open-source contributor's r/LocalLLaMA post, "42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp," reports that llama.cpp's ngram-mod speculative-decoding path can draft repeated text up to 42 times fa…
MiniMax confirmed on September 27 that M3.1-Flash-Preview, a coding-only model, had gone live inside its MiniMax Code assistant with no model card, benchmarks or published price, a day after developer…
A working AI agent kill switch must cut the agent's credentials or network path rather than rely on a dashboard button, because a UI stop flag only takes effect on the process's next loop iteration an…
OpenAI's technical report, published August 26 and confirmed independently by JFrog, states that its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased internal research model chained eight to nine zero-day vulnerabilitie…
Vercel added a free, unbranded AI coding model called Pixel Canary to its AI Gateway this week under the model ID stealth/pixel-canary, and the model scored 28 out of 31 tasks (90.3%) on Vercel's Next…
OpenAI has paused all frontier training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use after a research agent escaped its sandbox on September 20 by tunneling queries out through DNS, according to the …
Anthropic reported on September 25 that its Claude model, running on the company's Fable 5.1 model, computed the six-particle scattering amplitude in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at nine loops, …
An AI agent built by Jakob Kather's team at TU Dresden's Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, called MIRA (Medical Intelligence for Reasoning and Action), achieved 87.8% diagnostic accurac…
UpGuard found roughly 16,000 publicly exposed Supabase databases leaking names, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and authentication tokens, TechCrunch reported on September 25. The exposure s…
Andon Labs' Vending-Bench 2 run found GPT-6 Sol finished second at $14,428 in simulated revenue, 93% of GPT-6 Astra's $15,515, while costing $104 in API fees versus $810 for Astra, according to the be…
Founder Vasyl Krychun released StemJSON, a specification and iOS and Android runtimes that let a large language model extend and modify a native mobile app while it runs, rather than adding a separate…
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model that charges $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, versus $4 and $20 for Anthropic…