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CHATGPT FOR MACiMessagereads and sends, only after you approve
Agentsmedium signal

ChatGPT now reads and sends your Apple Messages, on the Mac only

A plug-in in the ChatGPT desktop app reads and searches your iMessage, SMS and RCS threads and sends messages through Messages on your behalf. By default nothing goes out until you approve both the text and the recipients. There is a switch that removes that step, and OpenAI's own documentation argues against using it.

OpenAIverified

Screenshot of the GitHub Copilot panel inside Slack, under the heading "The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack".
Agentsmedium signal

GitHub Copilot moved into Slack and Microsoft Teams on the same day

Both shipped on August 21 in public preview. Mention @GitHub in a channel and the agent triages issues, investigates failures, writes changes in a cloud sandbox and opens a pull request, with the conversation attached. The interesting part is not the capability list, which is familiar, but the room it moved into: the place where work gets discussed rather than written.

GitHubverified

A bobblehead figure of Nvidia's chief executive holding a game screen, above a green ARC-AGI-3 progress bar filled to 100%.
Agentsstrong signal

Nvidia's harness takes Claude Opus 5 from about 30% to a perfect ARC-AGI-3 score

Nvidia published a run in which AVO, its agent architecture, scores 100.00 RHAE on ARC-AGI-3 and clears all 183 levels across 25 environments. The same model evaluated on its own scores about 30%. In the same post Nvidia writes that the comparison is not a controlled ablation, and that sentence did not survive into the coverage.

NVIDIAverified

Agentsstrong signal

Gemini Spark vs Claude's browser toolset: whose account, whose risk

Both drive a web browser, both stop before the step that cannot be undone, and their lists of stopping points are nearly the same. The difference is what each assumes about the session it runs in: one is built on the accounts you are already signed into, the other tells you to give it a browser with no credentials in it. That single assumption decides which of the two belongs anywhere near your work.

Google, Anthropicverified

Modelsstrong signal

Claude Sonnet 5, read from what Anthropic publishes

Two disclosures first: this is a reading of the vendor's own evaluations rather than our test, and it is written by a model that vendor built. With both stated, the published numbers still contain three things worth noticing before you pick this model.

Anthropicverified

Agentsstrong signal

Claude Code vs Cursor: same $20, different shape

Both start at $20 a month, both speak MCP, both run skills and hooks, both reach CI. The difference is not the feature list. It is whether the agent lives inside an editor you adopt or inside the terminal you already have.

Anthropic, Cursorverified

Agentsmedium signal

Claude gets a separate toolset for driving a browser

August 19 brought two changes to how Claude operates someone else's screen. The computer use tool moved to general availability as computer_toolset_20260801, with no beta header, actions grouped into a single turn, and zoom enabled from the start. Alongside it came browser_toolset_20260801, a separate set of 31 tools that works inside a browser you run yourself rather than across the whole desktop. The important difference is that this set reads the page accessibility tree and returns element references, so a click targets a reference such as ref_2 instead of a point in pixels — and that survives a layout shift.

Anthropicverified

Industrymedium signal

Who is responsible when an agent gets it wrong

Agents have left the pilot stage and do real work in business software, health care, logistics, and finance. What remains is a question most organizations cannot answer: when an agent deletes a record or sends the wrong message, who is responsible? It is telling that Obsidian Security raised $85 million in August at a $1.1 billion valuation, and that more than 70% of its customers already let agents into third-party apps.

agregatori vijestiunverified

Agentsmedium signal

Model Context Protocol reaches release candidate

MCP, the open standard through which agents connect to business systems, has reached a major release candidate, pushed there by enterprises that use it to govern agent access to production. In under a year the standard went from a neat idea to infrastructure: today it is the layer everything an agent touches passes through and gets approved by.

agregatori vijestiunverified