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Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.

Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on […]

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/DevFest.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

<p><a href="https://www.rubyhack.ai/">OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems</a> is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the <a href="https://collusion.wiki/">report on the agent attack on disused wikis</a> (<a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/rogue-agent-wikis/">previously</a>) last week.</p> <p>This time they're noting that it looks very likely that an OpenAI agent swarm was behind an attack a

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2098217573276131577"><p>Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human. At Anthropic, we have many guardrails in place to make sure this is happening: lots of lint rules, lots of tests, Claude-driven end to end tests, Claude-powered fuzzers running daily, automated code reviews and security reviews, automated code refactoring, and so on. Without these, you can end up with a mess that is hard to mai

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.

Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Advisor_Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your marketing workflow.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.

Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across the enterprise.

OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety, proposing an international institute to strengthen safeguards, standards, and opportunities for young people.

OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.

Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.

See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.

Sea Limited's CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.

How enterprises scale AI: from early experiments to compounding impact through trust, governance, workflow design, and quality at scale.

Parloa leverages OpenAI models to power scalable, voice-driven AI customer service agents, enabling enterprises to design, simulate, and deploy reliable, real-time interactions.

Explore OpenAI’s European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grants, advancing safe, responsible AI for teens, families, and educators.

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.

Learn how OpenAI protects community safety in ChatGPT through model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, and collaboration with safety experts.

How Choco used OpenAI APIs to streamline food distribution, boost productivity, and unlock growth—an in-depth customer story on real-world AI impact.

A deep dive into the Codex agent loop, showing how WebSockets and connection-scoped caching reduced API overhead and improved model latency.

Learn how to build and use workspace agents in ChatGPT to automate repeatable workflows, connect tools, and streamline team operations.

Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.

Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for "getting things done." The move, one of several AI-focused updates in recent months, is part of a broader industry push to make AI more relevant and practically useful […]

<p><em><a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/">Agentic Engineering Patterns</a> ></em></p> <p>Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a quite a lot of work done in a single shot.</p> <p>First, some background. I send out a <a href="https://simonw.substack.com/">free Substack newsletter</a> around once a week containing content copied-and-pasted from my blog. I'm effectively using Substack as a lightweight way to allow people to subscribe to my bl

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a […]

<p><strong><a href="https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html">Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now</a></strong></p> The UK's AI Safety Institute recently published <a href="https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities">Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities</a>, their own independent analysis of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/">Claude Mythos</a> which backs

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/steve_yegge/status/2043747998740689171">Steve Yegge</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year.</p> <p>The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% s

Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world tasks with speed and security.

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

CyberAgent uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to securely scale AI adoption, improve quality, and accelerate decisions across advertising, media, and gaming.

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.

Discover OpenAI’s Child Safety Blueprint—a roadmap for building AI responsibly with safeguards, age-appropriate design, and collaboration to protect and empower young people online.

Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around agents rather than bolting them onto fragmented legacy workflows using traditional optimization methods. Companies…

A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent

<p><strong><a href="https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/">Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI</a></strong></p> Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages.</p> <p>They spent eight years thinking about and then three months building <a href="https://github.com/lalitMaganti/syntaqlite">syntaqlite</a>, which they describe as "<a href="https://lalitm.com/post/syntaqlite/">high-fidelity devtools that SQ

<p>A fun thing about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">recording a podcast</a> with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical videos. Here's <a href="https://x.com/lennysan/status/2039845666680176703">one he shared on Twitter today</a> which ended up attracting over 1.1m views!</p> <p><video src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cognitive-cost.mp4" poster="https://st

Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor. It's only the second time the state - and the country - has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI. State officials say it could bring costs down and ease care shortages, but physicians warn the system is opaque, risky, and […]

<p>I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled <a href="https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/an-ai-state-of-the-union">An AI state of the union: We've passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines</a>. It's available on <a href="https://youtu.be/wc8FBhQtdsA">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DVjwLT6wgtscdB78Qf1BQ">Spotify</a>, and <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ai-state-of-the-union-weve-passed-the/

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/cost_reliability_Gemini_API-soc.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.

<p>I just sent the March edition of my <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/simonw/">sponsors-only monthly newsletter</a>. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can <a href="https://github.com/simonw-private/monthly/blob/main/2026-03-march.md">access it here</a>. In this month's newsletter:</p> <ul> <li>More agentic engineering patterns</li> <li>Streaming experts with MoE models on a Mac</li> <li>Model releases in March</li> <li>Vibe porting</li> <li>Supply chain attacks a

Gradient Labs uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.4 mini and nano to power AI agents that automate banking support workflows with low latency and high reliability.

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

<blockquote cite="https://interconnected.org/home/2026/03/28/architecture"><p>The thing about agentic coding is that agents grind problems into dust. Give an agent a problem and a while loop and - long term - it’ll solve that problem even if it means burning a trillion tokens and re-writing down to the silicon. [...]</p> <p>But we want AI agents to solve coding problems quickly and in a way that is maintainable and adaptive and composable (benefiting from improvements elsewhere), and where every

Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.

Apple's iOS 27 update will allow users to choose the AI chatbot they want to link with Siri. That's according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says third-party chatbots downloaded from the App Store, like Google's Gemini or Anthropic's Claude, will be able to fetch replies for Siri - similar to how the […]

<p><strong><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517539">Thoughts on slowing the fuck down</a></strong></p> Mario Zechner created the <a href="https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono">Pi agent framework</a> used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed:</p> <blockquote> <p>We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of c