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BuildersMicrosoft rebuilt Copilot around three things: Home, Code and an agent that works while nobody is thereThe new Copilot brings chat and delegated work into one place, lets anyone build small apps with GitHub Copilot's technology and adds Autopilot - a persistent agent in the cloud. Long agentic work and frontier models run on usage-based billing.SecurityThree days after the patch, CISA confirmed attacks on the WordPress hole, along with SharePoint and MikroTikOn 25 September the catalogue of actively exploited vulnerabilities gained CVE-2026-87902 in the WordPress core, CVE-2026-65660 in SharePoint and CVE-2026-67279 in MikroTik's RouterOS. MikroTik comes with a catch: the versions that fix it carry an incomplete fix for another of the holes.Buildersn8n released agents that work out the steps themselves, while workflows set how far they can reachOn 25 September n8n added a new type of agent: you describe the task, choose a model, tools and workflows, and the agent decides how to reach the result. Workflows can become its tools and so limit what it can touch. The old AI Agent node stays unchanged.FrontierAlibaba is training Qwen 4 and plans its first cloud regions in Finland and the NetherlandsAt the Apsara 2026 conference Alibaba said the next Qwen generation is in training, and the Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 series are planned to reach 5 to 10 trillion parameters. Its cloud plans new regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands in the next 12 months. Everything with a future date is a plan.SecurityA hole in Adobe Commerce and Magento entered the catalogue of actively exploited vulnerabilitiesOn 24 September CISA added CVE-2026-71362 to the KEV catalogue: incorrect authorisation in Adobe Commerce and Magento that can lead to privilege escalation without user action. The NVD record dates from 11 August. Adobe's bulletin did not open when we checked, so the facts rest on CISA and NVD.BuildersDocker opened a format for what an agent is allowed to do and is handing it to the CNCFOn 24 September Docker released the Sandbox Kit Spec under Apache 2.0: the agent, its tools and a list of everything it wants to reach, in one ordinary container image. The standard goes under the neutral governance of the CNCF. The same day brought Cloud Sandboxes for agents that work for hours.CommerceAgents swapped books on people's behalf, and the model weighed more in the bargaining than the instructionsIn the Project Swap experiment, 201 Anthropic employees sent Claude agents to trade books for them. After a five-minute chat the agent ordered pairs of books the way the person did in 61% of cases. The biggest loss was not in the haggling but in how well the agent had understood the person.RoboticsWaymo presented its plan for London, but first it needs both national approval and the city's consentOn 24 September Waymo published its vision for a driverless service in London under the UK scheme for automated passenger services. The scheme needs approval from the Department for Transport and consent from Transport for London. For now there is no permit, and Waymo says it is ready to earn one.
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