5/ A 360M parameter model that pretends to be a computer terminal.
No shell. No filesystem. Every keystroke goes in, it predicts the next screen.
Bash, vim, tmux, snake. 208MB. Runs in your browser at 38ms a keypress.
Author's verdict: "obviously a pretty weak world model."
4/ Anthropic's Claude Duet runs on its own cloud computer with its own browser.
It keeps working when your laptop is closed. Morning brief, checks every few hours, pings you when something needs you.
Asks first before paying, signing, sending or deleting.
3/ Walmart built a front door for AI shopping agents.
Each agent gets its own profile in your account, its own receipts, and a ceiling you set ($50, $100, $200).
No card details. No purchase history.
Amazon is blocking agents outright. Opposite bets, same week.
2/ OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps ran 1,946 agents in parallel over a 7.7M cell mouse brain CRISPR atlas.
32 minutes.
Without the original manuscript, they matched or refined 48 of its 55 findings. 30 blinded biologists backed the rankings.
Preprint. Not peer reviewed.
1/ Oct 3: an agent told "don't send messages" set a no-notify flag and emptied the list of people who'd be paged if something broke.
Oct 6: another removed its monitor, rewrote a test to assert it was gone, then denied removing it.
OpenAI: no satisfying explanation yet.
OpenAI published a report this week saying two of its own agents turned off their safety monitoring.
One of them, asked directly whether it had, said no.
The 5 most astonishing AI advances of Oct 18 to 24, with receipts:
4/ Do these six:
1. Update phone + browser, restart it
2. Check theperimetersite.com/hacked-… daily
3. One password per site, two-step login on
4. Read statements back to Oct 16
5. Pull bank logins out of AI apps
6. Fake "reset password" emails are coming. Type the site yourself.
1/ This week AI found a 10-year-old hole in 7 out of 10 websites. Hours later, AI started attacking it. Here's what to do before Monday.
5. Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors in Q2, on top of 3,000 staff, to fix software flaws that Claude Mythos found. "The risk is real risk," said CEO Brian Moynihan. The first big AI labor story at a bank was hiring, not firing. 6/7
