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Google Cloud has announced the Gemini agent, a single agent for knowledge work, media and code that can spin up sub-agents and "coworker" agents with their own identities. The Financial Services and Legal versions are in preview; Google gave no general-availability date. What it does, how Google says it is fenced in, and what is still unproven.

An NVIDIA tutorial shows OpenAI's Codex coding agent turning a Jetson Orin Nano into a self-starting kiosk that captions a live webcam feed with Google's small Gemma 4 E2B model, running on the device. What the demo shows, what "No Mac required" means, and why local inference matters.

Samsung's third-quarter guidance points to about ₩107.4 trillion in operating profit on ₩195 trillion of sales, up from ₩12.17 trillion a year ago, with AI data-centre memory demand credited. AWS becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, with a board seat. What the numbers say and what they leave out.

A new benchmark, TasteVal, says the best AI model now reaches expert-level results on eight AI research tasks with 2.3 times less compute, though its authors list reasons that may overstate progress. Preference Model has open-sourced Karotte, a framework for training environments that are harder to game, and DatologyAI has released Zephon, a data loader that keeps experiments repeatable when the GPU count changes. What each claims, and who measured it.

Cognition has given its Devin coding agent a memory: short notes kept in a Git repository and tidied each night by a "dreaming" session, with the format open-sourced. Separately, Hark has released Hark Pro, a free assistant built on a model trained to use computers. What each launch is, and which claims are the companies' own.

A critical Langflow flaw let MCP server settings run any command. Researchers say GitHub's Copilot CLI followed encrypted instructions that it refused in plain text; GitHub says that is not a vulnerability. Meanwhile Atlassian has split its 220+ agent tools into read, write and destructive tiers, and OpenAI has made Codex Auto-review free. What each one confirms.

Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers, Defense, Red Team and Specialized, that relax Claude's cyber safety blocks for vetted security teams on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1. Specialized applicants are reviewed with the US government. What each tier allows, and what Anthropic's own test shows.

Nous Research has raised $90 million to build Hermes for Businesses, a company version of its MIT-licensed Hermes agent. The raise is confirmed; the valuation is reported, mostly at $1.5B, with one $1.2B figure in circulation. Nous's "2.5% of global token usage" is its own estimate.

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, by Anthropic's estimate, and jumps from 15.7% to 72.4% on Anthropic's OSWorld 2.1 computer-use test. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are also halved. What is confirmed, what is company benchmark, and who it is for.

Anthropic’s Claude for Google Workspace add-on entered public beta on 6 October 2026, with a Docs, Sheets and Slides sidebar plus link-based edit connectors.