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September 18, 2026

New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

toolThe Verge

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple agents ↗

Anthropic revamped the Projects feature in Claude Code so multiple agents run under one roof with shared memory, goals, and a library of files and artifacts. Each project has “threads” running tasks in parallel, with a “coordinator” directing everything.

toolThe Verge

Google Home opens the smart home to AI agents via MCP ↗

Google is opening its smart home to AI agents — tools like Claude can access, control, and analyze connected devices via the standardized Model Context Protocol. The new Google Home MCP integration lets third-party agents in too.

announcementTechCrunch

Google DeepMind launches an institute to widen the AGI debate ↗

Google DeepMind is launching a new institute to surface differing views on AGI between Google, DeepMind, and the broader research community. As it notes, they will not always agree and will likely change their minds as more data emerges at the fast-moving frontier.

announcementTechCrunch

Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership ↗

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, is launching an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire. It will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.

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