announcementThe Verge
Apple is adding new limits for “full disk access” on Mac in response to the risks posed by AI agents. The new controls aim to ensure that only apps a user genuinely wants to grant this extraordinary level of access can receive it.
announcementTechCrunch
David Robinson, who used to write OpenAI’s safety reports for major model releases, has resigned and is now speaking out about what he calls a broken culture. By his own admission he is “something of a cliché”, an employee at a leading AI company issuing a dire warning on the way out.
toolTechCrunch
Meta wants its Muse in as many devices as possible, from televisions to everyday home electronics. To make that happen it is releasing the code for free so that anyone can use it.
announcementGoogle
Google has published a roundup of its latest AI updates from September 2026. It gathers in one place everything the company introduced across its products and services during the month.
researchSimon Willison
Simon Willison argues that pay-by-usage services and APIs should ship with a default hard budget cap. That means the ability to say that once you pass a set amount per month, the service shuts off and returns errors. Soft caps with a warning email are not enough, he says, especially with coding agents.
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