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The Agents API went into public beta on Thursday: the Codex harness behind one API call, with durable sessions, automatic compaction, subagents and nine sandbox partners, at no fee above tokens. Writing the loop was never the hard part. And the beta is US-only with no zero data retention, which settles it for most of Europe before the engineering argument starts.
OpenAI pointed about 10,000 agents at Navier–Stokes for 88 hours and got a finite-time blowup, formalised in Lean and machine-checked in another seventeen. The correctness question is basically closed. The forcing term, the author list and the prize are all still wide open.
Someone minted about 4,000 unbacked L-BTC on Liquid and pegged them out for real Bitcoin in roughly twenty minutes. Not one of the fifteen federation keys was compromised — they all signed, correctly, a withdrawal their software had already declared valid. The bug was in a cache.
OpenAI put GPT-6 Astra at Critical on its own cyber scale. The next day Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber behind a vetting programme that didn't exist the week before. Both explicitly name open-source maintainers as eligible. Both wrote eligibility as a control set that assumes you have an employer.
PostgreSQL 19 ships SQL/PGQ, so you can write graph patterns over tables you already have. The aggregators turned that into "delete Neo4j". But every pattern is fixed depth — no variable-length paths, no shortest path — which is the exact thing people buy a graph database for.
ERCOT has frozen new data-centre grid connections over a 474 GW queue — more than five times Texas's record peak demand, and about seven times what every data centre in the US actually draws. That number was never a forecast. It's an inbox with no unique constraint.
McKinsey's 2026 survey says 32% of organisations decided against buying software because they could build it with agentic coding tools. The build got cheap. The run cost didn't move at all — and 60% of it never went near procurement.
On 31 August the last Manifest V2 extensions came off the Chrome Web Store, uBlock Origin included. I sat down to write the eulogy and then read the measurements: in default config, MV3 blockers block about as well. What actually died is something else.
On 11 September the reporting half of the EU Cyber Resilience Act switches on — 24 hours to flag an actively exploited vulnerability, covering products you shipped years ago. The portal opens the same day, and it has no API.
A 19-year-old in London raised $10M to grow neurons as a training substrate, and the demo is a dish playing Frogger. The demo isn't the news. The claim that they've broken the ~1M neuron ceiling is — if the substrate can stay alive and repeatable long enough to matter.
