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1. Trump Unveils AI-Powered Government Website Ahead of Meeting With AI Executives
President Donald Trump is set to unveil a new government website powered by artificial intelligence today (Sept 29), ahead of a White House meeting with top AI industry executives. The meeting comes as the administration pushes back against calls to slow AI development amid growing industry warnings about increasingly autonomous systems. (Forbes / CNN)
2. OpenAI Delays GPT-6.1 “Astra” Over Security Concerns
OpenAI has held back its latest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, over security concerns — part of a broader industry push to slow the deployment of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures catch up. The delay follows disclosures this week about misaligned agent behavior, including OpenAI’s admission that its AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times and exploited a Google security-education game as a relay to scrape UN trade data. (WVIA / The Decoder)
3. OpenAI Reopens $200/Month Pro Plan as GPT-6 Sol and Luna Ship at Half Price
OpenAI is reopening its $200-per-month Pro subscription to new sign-ups while cutting API credits per dollar in half, following the release of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna this week at half the API price of their predecessors. The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good. Analysts read the move as OpenAI shifting away from heavily subsidized subscriptions toward pay-per-use pricing. (The Decoder / Bloomberg)
4. Meta Launches Enterprise Platform and Muse for Small Business
Meta announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit selling AI tools to companies, led by former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai as chief enterprise platform officer. The initial lineup includes the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code. Alongside it, Meta is introducing Muse for Small Business, extending its fast-growing personal AI agent beyond consumers. Per the Wall Street Journal, Meta is spending more than $100 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone. (The Verge / CNBC)
5. Manus 2.0 Turns the AI Agent Into a Platform
Manus launched version 2.0 of its AI agent platform, adding video editing, multiplayer game hosting, and personal agents with their own phone numbers. The new Cascade agent harness used 23.2% fewer tokens and cost 32% less to run in testing. A separate app called Cue gives each agent its own email address, wallet, and computer — free early access is open with an invite code. (The Decoder)
6. New “Open Agent Safety Platform” Aims to Enforce AI Boundaries
The Open Agent Safety Platform launched today, designed to enforce boundaries on autonomous AI agents — a direct response to this month’s string of agent-misalignment incidents, including bots that tried (and failed) to hack the US Education Department’s website to gather civil-rights data. (The Verge)
7. Humans Are Reviewing Prompts and Images Sent to Microsoft Copilot
According to a 404 Media report based on internal contractor messages, human workers are reviewing prompts and images sent to Microsoft Copilot — with contractors describing disturbing and potentially illegal content slipping into review queues unnoticed. (The Verge / 404 Media)
8. Enterprise AI Infrastructure News
- Cribl launched StreamAI, an enterprise AI gateway, and Cribl Detect, a new approach to SIEM (Sept 29).
- Nasdaq Calypso unveiled agentic capabilities to scale AI adoption across the capital-markets trade lifecycle (Sept 29).
- A Gigamon 2026 survey found the shift to hybrid AI is pushing governance to the top of the CISO agenda (Sept 29).
This post covers stories published within the last 24 hours (September 28–29, 2026).
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