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AnthropicSeptember 19, 2026
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as of version 2.1.277, but only when a project has no CLAUDE.md

The format came out of OpenAI's Codex and the Linux Foundation stewards it now, and the agents.md page still doesn't name Claude Code among the tools that read it.

MetaSeptember 19, 2026
Meta's Muse agent now reaches the files and messages on your Mac and acts on them

Zuckerberg announced it himself in a post, two days after he argued that every lab should set its own pace instead of agreeing on one.

xAISeptember 19, 2026
Musk says AI roughly doubles US growth next year, but the Fed's 2027 median is 2.4%

His guess is about 4%. No participant on the Federal Open Market Committee put next year above 2.9%.

AI safetySeptember 18, 2026
Can air-gapped computers talk through CPU heat? What OpenAI's Noam Brown actually said

The headline turned an aside about academic work into a model sending Morse code across an air gap, and then Brown posted a narrower version of the claim that survives the arithmetic.

AnthropicSeptember 18, 2026
Claude leads 26% of Anthropic's AI research, but no measured part of it is fully autonomous

Anthropic also counted the agents inside its own systems: about 30,000 running at a time, and a monitor that blocked one action in 47,000.

GoogleSeptember 18, 2026
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share it

You cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.

What people are making with the new models

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Ready-made prompts

All 45 prompts

Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.

CookingStories & mangaWriting & memosLearningPlanningWork

A week of dinners, with one shopping list

Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.

Cooking

Catch me up before the new season

You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.

Stories & manga

Chase money someone owes me

The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.

Writing & memos

A study plan for the time I've actually got

Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.

Learning

A present for someone you actually know

Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.

Planning

A cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's

Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.

Work