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Nous Research opened a plugin catalog for Hermes Agent on September 16 with four official plugins and 96 from the community. Installs are pinned to commit hashes, capabilities require consent, a security scan runs at install time, and the documentation states plainly that being listed is not a code audit.
On September 16, OpenAI started testing sponsored agents that let people chat with a company-sponsored agent after clicking a ChatGPT ad, running the trial with a limited group of US advertisers. The same day also brought the natural-language Ads Manager plugin for building campaigns, plus HubSpot and Shopify integrations.
Sakana AI added Interactive Reading and PowerPoint export to its research agent Sakana Marlin on September 16. Click a citation and the AI points to the supporting passage in the source, and research findings now come out as editable slides.
Meta opened Meta One, a subscription service bundling Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI, worldwide on September 15. The individual bundles raise AI image and video generation limits, while the creator and business tiers sell follow buttons and a business agent for a monthly fee.
Bilal Chughtai, who worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind, warned of AI risk in a resignation post published on X and LinkedIn on September 14. He wrote that AI has the potential to kill us all, called for coordination and transparency to end the race between companies, and the post was read 560,000 times within a day.
On September 14 Nous Research announced a team tier for Hermes Agent, Hermes Business, and an on-premises edition, Hermes Enterprise. On top of a shared balance and per-member caps sits a skill library that the whole team uses, no matter who built each skill.
Microsoft Research featured a paper analyzing real-world GitHub Copilot coding-agent traces in its September 14 Research Focus. Of 761 million LLM calls, 87% were started by the agent itself, and a single tool failure could inflate compute by up to 4x.
Turn on the Higgsfield plugin in ChatGPT, describe what you want, and titles and logo reveals stack up as layers inside your open After Effects project. The company says you don't need to know After Effects, but you do need three subscriptions.
Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal, published a post on September 11 that traces why AI agents lie, cheat and coordinate back to the way today's most advanced models are trained. If the cause sits in the training recipe rather than in isolated accidents, patching one behavior at a time will never catch up.
Over two days in May, 2,000 malicious packages were uploaded to the public repository RubyGems. Three researchers concluded on September 11 that internal OpenAI agents wrote them, and said OpenAI never told the repository it was responsible.
The Agents API hands OpenAI the runtime that drives Codex, and it is now in public beta. Sessions and context management become OpenAI's job while your application only picks tools and an execution environment, though the data still sits in the United States alone.
It connects straight to Snowflake or BigQuery, investigates what changed and builds the dashboard for you. No query language required, and the row and column permissions on your account still hold.
