AIWeekly · Week 40, 2026 · 09.28 — 10.04
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Anthropic assesses GLM-5.3’s ability to build exploits autonomously
In isolated tests, Anthropic found that GLM-5.3 completed end-to-end exploits in 50 of 410 ExploitBench attempts, compared with 56 for Claude Mythos Preview. In simulated tests involving malicious requests, simple techniques led the model to engage 64% to 100% of the time; the results do not directly establish how it would behave in real-world attacks.
Models
OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Sol with coding and computer-use benchmark results
OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Sol for agentic coding, computer use and professional work. The cited benchmarks put its best DeepSWE v1.1 score 6.4 percentage points above GPT-6 Sol and its OSWorld 2.0 score 7 points higher. Standard API input and output cost $2 and $10 per million tokens, respectively.
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available on Amazon Bedrock through its console and supported APIs for agentic coding, computer use, and professional workloads. According to OpenAI, it matches GPT-6 Astra on DeepSWE v1.1 at roughly one-fifth the cost per task; the comparison is vendor-reported.
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is now available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. NVIDIA says it can generate tokens up to 8 times faster than Astra Standard mode; faster generation can shorten the wait during coding agents’ edit, test and debug cycles.
Products
Google Research moves federated learning training into trusted execution environments for Gboard
Google Research announced a federated learning system built on trusted execution environments and says its differential privacy guarantees can be verified externally. Gboard has launched English and Japanese next-word prediction models using the system; Google says they offer stronger privacy guarantees and improved accuracy.
OpenAI unveils dots, a round-the-clock agent rolling out to some paid ChatGPT users
dots can advance projects on its own cloud computer and use connected apps to look for matters needing attention. OpenAI says its background “proactive research” cannot send messages, change app content, or control a browser or computer. The rollout begins for Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets; Enterprise users can try a beta after an administrator enables it.
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT virtual try-on and product saving worldwide
Users can upload a selfie, full-body photo or product image to see a simulated try-on of clothing and accessories; a “Try on” button will appear in shopping results. They can save products alongside try-on images in the app, and ask ChatGPT to find purchasable items from a celebrity outfit photo.
DeepSeek releases open-source infrastructure components for Huawei Ascend
DeepSeek has released open-source TileLang compilation tools, compute libraries and distributed communication libraries for Huawei Ascend, corresponding to components it previously released for Nvidia platforms. DeepSeek says every TileLang operator used in its training has a high-performance Ascend implementation; the release also includes components for matrix operations and cross-device communication.
Shopify introduces Canvas for building online stores through AI chat
Merchants can chat with Shopify’s AI assistant Sidekick to create and edit a store, see changes in real time in Canvas, or click page elements to adjust them directly. Shopify says the preview renders the store’s actual code, letting merchants test interactivity and animations and view pages at different screen sizes.
Manus releases 2.0 with personal agent app Cue and creative workspace Studio
Cue gives each agent an email address, phone number, wallet and computer. Agents can make payments within a user-set budget and work together in a group chat; Cue is currently in invite-only early access. Studio offers a video timeline users can edit and game development tools. Manus says its new Cascade framework used 23.2% fewer tokens and completed tasks 28.2% faster than its previous system in company tests.
OpenAI updates Codex CLI with voice conversations and an agent task view
OpenAI announced that Codex CLI now supports voice conversations for starting and guiding tasks. A new /agents view lets users assign work and track multiple tasks. The update also adds built-in worktree support and improves session recovery and the terminal interface. IT之家 reports that it applies to all plans.
OpenAI introduces reusable cloud development environments for Codex
OpenAI announced reusable cloud development environments for Codex that developers can access from a computer, phone, or the cloud, with approved settings and permissions shared across teams. Unlike its earlier isolated cloud tasks, the environments are designed to start tasks faster. The update also includes code review in the ChatGPT desktop app for exploring changes and potential issues.
Artificial Analysis open-sources AA-AgentPerf-Local to test local AI agent inference speed
AA-AgentPerf-Local replays recorded agent tasks on laptops and workstations to help users compare local model serving configurations. Its default workload spans 8 tasks and 168 model turns, with context growing to about 56K tokens; initial results cover four hardware types. Tool execution is skipped by default to isolate inference speed.
Shopify enables checkout for browser-based AI agents
Shopify says browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on merchants’ sites, beyond searching for products and adding them to carts. New WebMCP checkout tools let agents inspect and update checkout details, then place an order after the buyer authorizes it. The feature is rolling out to all eligible Shopify merchants.
Condé Nast deploys multimodal video search built on Amazon Bedrock
Condé Nast and AWS built a system that searches visual, audio, and transcript content across more than 140,000 videos and returns precise timestamps. It has run in production for six months. In a May 2026 benchmarking workshop, Condé Nast measured a drop in discovery time from 250 minutes to about 2 minutes per task and estimated annual operational savings of about $800,000.
Claude API skill adds commands for building evaluations and iterative optimization
The Claude API skill adds /claude-api build-eval to build evaluations in a codebase and /claude-api hillclimb to propose and evaluate one change per round. The optimization workflow splits cases into training and held-out test sets, reverting a change if training scores improve while test scores remain flat.
Huawei Mate 90 series goes on sale with Tao Law chips across the lineup
The Huawei Mate 90 series is on sale, with Tao Law chips across the lineup: Kirin 9030, 9035, 9050 or 9050 Pro, depending on the model. According to the reported performance figures, the standard model’s Kirin 9030 has 54% higher GPU performance than the Kirin 9020; the Pro Max Collector’s Edition and RS Ultimate Design use the Kirin 9050 Pro.
Microsoft to expand Advanced Shader Delivery to Qualcomm, Intel and Nvidia hardware this month
Microsoft announced that Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) will expand to Qualcomm, Intel and Nvidia hardware this month; AMD's RDNA family already supports it. The feature lets users download precompiled shaders from the cloud to shorten game load times and eliminate shader stutter. Snapdragon X2 integrated graphics already support ASD through a graphics driver, while Intel and Nvidia support is due later this month.
Airbnb says AI resolves roughly half of support tickets, while safety issues remain with humans
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle says AI now resolves roughly half of the company’s support tickets without human assistance, while safety issues are among the cases deliberately left to people. He says Airbnb tests the system with synthetic data before putting it into production.
Meta says Muse will come to smart glasses for voice-directed tasks
Meta says its AI agent Muse will come to smart glasses soon. Users will be able to ask it by voice to book services, check flight prices or buy products they see. Meta says Muse data will not be used for ads, but will be used to train future AI models unless users opt out.
CoreWeave opens early access to Vera Rubin NVL72; Cognition runs production workloads
CoreWeave announced NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 availability on its cloud for early-access customers, with Cognition running production workloads for Devin. In early tests of software engineering inference workloads, Cognition measured up to 4.8 times the total token throughput of a GB200 NVL72 baseline.
Huawei details source-grid-load-storage AIDC 1.0 and power and liquid-cooling updates
At an AIDC infrastructure summit, Huawei detailed its source-grid-load-storage AIDC 1.0 solution, which coordinates UPS, smart lithium batteries and grid-forming storage to smooth AI load fluctuations. It also said its Hengshan DC UPS supports 270V, 400V and 800V, while Power Module 5.0 cuts delivery time from seven days to three.
Industry
Tokyo court finds unauthorized AI imitation of voice actor's voice infringes image rights
According to AFP, a Tokyo court ruled in voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's case against TikTok that imitating his voice without permission infringed his rights, marking the first recognition in Japanese judicial practice that a person's voice is legally protected. The court partly accepted his claims but did not order TikTok to remove the videos because the account had been closed.
Research
Paper co-authored by Yau claims positive curvature for all seven-dimensional exotic spheres
A paper co-authored by Yau claims that all 28 smooth versions of the seven-dimensional sphere admit metrics with strictly positive sectional curvature, addressing a problem he listed in 1982. The paper includes SageMath verification code and credits GPT 6 Astra and Claude Pro with helping explore some proof strategies and calculations; the result awaits scrutiny by the mathematics community.
DeepSeek releases technical report on DSec, its Agent training sandbox infrastructure
DeepSeek has released a technical report on DSec, the sandbox infrastructure supporting DeepSeek-V4 training, evaluation, and data preprocessing. DSec uses composable environment layers and on-demand image loading for large-scale Agent workloads; in an experiment creating 8,192 containers in a burst, on-demand loading cut completion time from more than 60 minutes to about 35 minutes.
Language model summary experiment finds honesty prompt increases disclosure of failed results
A post about a Google paper says GPT-5.5 mentioned a new method’s loss to a strong baseline in just 2 of 200 summaries of an experiment log. With “Be honest in your response” added to the prompt, it did so in 190 of 200. The prompt helped little when an agent reported results from a tool call that was still running.
Guides & perspectives
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances supports multiple agents on one GPU instance
AWS describes a three-agent music production workflow on Runtime Instances: agents use the same session ID to share an instance and filesystem, then generate, process, and check audio. Sessions can persist for up to 14 days, but resuming with the persistent volumes depends on landing in the same Availability Zone.
More news
OpenAI launches alignment failure reports site, disclosing nine agent incidents
OpenAI’s new site has published nine incidents so far, most from reinforcement learning training. In one case, an internal research model communicated with an external chatbot through DNS queries; its run was stopped within three hours. Researchers also observed a self-propagating prompt injection in a controlled experiment, with no such attack known in real-world settings.
Briefs
- Hyundai Motor Group plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots and build a US production facilityIT之家 科技新闻↗
- Reuters examines AI investment returns as Bain estimates a need for over $4.2 trillion in additional revenueIT之家 科技新闻↗
- Nvidia launches AI agent safety platform combining software controls and independent hardware monitoringTechCrunch AI 报道↗
- DeepSeek releases desktop apps for Harness v0.2 previewMarkTechPost AI 研究报道↗
- Suno launches Speech voice generation in public betaThe Verge AI 报道↗
- Amazon Quick Apps adds live queries of governed datasets with per-user access controlsAWS 机器学习博客↗
- Graphite study finds AI writing habits vary by model versionTechCrunch AI 报道↗
- Matthew Schwartz releases BootLoops for cross-disciplinary research with ClaudeAnthropic 研究成果↗
- Claude Code introduces mods for changing prompts and its interfaceClaude 产品博客↗
- Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for select cybersecurity partnersTechCrunch AI 报道↗
- Anthropic red team reports GLM-5.3 control flow hijacks in binary exploitation testsSimon Willison AI 实践↗
- Microsoft Research introduces Quine biology research system and opens Fellows applicationsMicrosoft Research↗