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The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly private prompt or image could reach a reviewer, a monitor could detect an agent long before a person stopped it, and a local app flaw could inherit every permission a user had granted. The new AI Weekly Who’s Who census points to one practical question: when an agent crosses a boundary, who knows—and w...
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Jobs — ▲ +113% story volume vs last week (17 vs 8 tracked stories)
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OpenAI — in 17 of the last 20 issues · 62 tracked stories this week
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NVIDIA — ▼ -40% story volume vs last week (15 vs 25 tracked stories)
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Tools & capabilities — 47 of 327 tracked stories this week
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The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly private prompt or image could reach a reviewer, a monitor could detect an agent long before a person stopped it, and a local app flaw could inherit every permission a user had granted. The new AI Weekly Who’s Who census points to one practical question: when an agent crosses a boundary, who knows—and w...
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