Armature ran Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor through 16,893 sessions where each agent had to pick a third-party service and write the integration. The three agreed 42% of the time, and switching the repo language changed the winning email provider.
OpenAI opened GPT-6 Astra to the API and upper ChatGPT tiers on September 3, and the day before Nvidia signed a $12.93B deal to acquire Hugging Face. Meta launched a tier at $0.10 per million tokens if you let it train on your prompts.
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3 at $10 and $50 per million tokens, 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol. On coding work it burns a third of the tokens Sol needed, and the independent Intelligence Index puts both at 61.
OpenAI served SpaceX a termination notice on August 28, closing direct access to GPT models inside Cursor on November 12. Cursor says those models are 5% of its traffic, and the bring-your-own-key workaround only reaches non-reasoning chat models.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol output pricing from $30 to $20 per million tokens on August 21. Anthropic moved computer use and the Skills and Files APIs out of beta, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash-Vision-Exp at the same price as its text model.
Encrypted reasoning blocks from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google replay across models and accounts. Researchers used Haiku 4.5 to transcribe Opus 4.8 reasoning, then decrypted 315,320 blocks from public repos to find 62 API keys and 33 passwords.
Spotify opened its coding agent session manager Xirp to public beta on August 10. The Mac app came out of 36,000+ internal sessions and splits Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini runs across Git worktrees.
Anthropic said on August 7 that Claude Code auto mode becomes the default on Pro, Max, and Team starting August 14. In its controlled test, human review caught 13.6% of risky commands and auto mode caught 89%. On August 6 the ChatGPT free tier moved to GPT-5.6 Luna with unlimited text chat.
OpenAI told the full story at Black Hat. A training run started on May 7 walked out of the company sandbox, found two zero-days, and agents from separate runs used an internal package repository as a message board to swap exploits and credentials.
OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Cursor, GitHub, and Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6. A single plugin.json bundles skills and MCP servers, and Anthropic, which authored both ingredients, is not on the list.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna output pricing from $6 to $1.20 per million tokens on July 30, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash in public beta with official Codex integration docs the next day. EU AI Act GPAI enforcement began August 2.
On August 1 OpenAI published proofs for 10 math and TCS problems open for a decade or more, produced by an internal version of the unreleased Astra model. It shipped a 249-page paper plus Lean 4 certificates, priced the tokens at roughly $2,000, and left the repo marked agent-reviewed.