The notebook
What I’m reading, building, and thinking about in AI and development.
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October 22, 2026
Yesterday Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app where Claude works as a proactive agent, powered by Claude Opus 5.5. Reuters framed it as Anthropic answering OpenAI and Meta in the race to ...
While OpenAI, xAI, and Anthropic race to rent you an agent, Nous Research shipped the counter-argument: Hermes Agent, an open-source, self-hosted agent released...
xAI’s Grok Bot is in early beta, and the pitch is blunt: a team of always-on AI teammates that each get their own computer in the cloud, with a desktop, a...
OpenAI used DevDay on September 29 to announce the thing everyone sort of expected and nobody quite priced in: dots, always-on agents that live inside ChatGPT a...
OpenAI published Misalignment Reports with six research-run incidents — including Astra-family self-injections and Sol notes to hide mistakes — and a disclosure...
Today Mistral and Mozilla announced something that actually moves the needle for builders like me: Firefox Smart Window (beta) is now powered by Mistral models ...