{ "entity": "CodeNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "codenews.com", "vertical": "AI & Agent Economy", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-08-28T02:59:04.934Z", "articles": [ { "title": "Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/27/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-auto-mode/", "summary": "Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode\nAnthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness.\nJohann Reh", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-27T22:50:25+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code", "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/27/hugging-face-offers-399-robot-duck-to-help-you-quack-the-ai-code/5293011", "summary": "Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box", "source": "theregister.com", "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:25:07 +0200", "image": "https://image.theregister.com/?imageId=5293032&width=800" }, { "title": "Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks", "url": "https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/", "summary": "227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.", "source": "arstechnica.com", "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:00:13 +0000", "image": "https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/gatekeeping-ai-agents-1152x648.jpg" }, { "title": "Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose", "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/26/debian-polls-its-developers-on-whether-to-burn-the-bots-tame-the-bots-or-let-em-loose/5292270", "summary": "Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces", "source": "theregister.com", "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0200", "image": "https://image.theregister.com/?imageId=5292279&width=800" }, { "title": "How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex", "url": "https://openai.com/index/loveholidays", "summary": "Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex", "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-admin-plugin", "summary": "Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "More than just code review", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/more-than-just-code-review/", "summary": "The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the correct way.\nSometimes this involves reviewing every line of code they have wri", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-22T15:56:54+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "Stop Making TUIs", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/", "summary": "Stop Making TUIs\nThomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing.\nI wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU mo", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-21T16:07:32+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "Quoting Matt Webb", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/matt-webb/", "summary": "After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mat", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-21T15:06:26+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code", "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/pwc-search", "summary": "", "source": "huggingface.co", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work", "url": "https://openai.com/index/stampli", "summary": "With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/smolmachines-untrusted-sandbox/", "summary": "Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript\n I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task:\n\nPut https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox. Explore what it would take", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-19T23:16:00+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/conceptual-integrity-and-counting-lines-of-code/", "summary": "Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of \"How AI is changing software development\". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a lightly edited transcript (prompt to Claude: \"very minor", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-19T22:46:07+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation", "url": "https://openai.com/index/partnering-with-codeai", "summary": "OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex", "url": "https://openai.com/index/asana", "summary": "Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT", "image": null }, { "title": "Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications — in one click", "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-protected-by-access/", "summary": "Introducing Cloudflare Access for Workers. Attach an Access policy directly to a Worker and it applies everywhere that Worker runs — routes, custom domains, workers.dev, and previews — automatically.", "source": "blog.cloudflare.com", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT", "image": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/_emdash/api/media/file/01KZW0HXCQS1KX2QJ1MD5YT1JP.png" }, { "title": "sqlite-utils 4.2.1", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/sqlite-utils-2/", "summary": "Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1\n Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2. I'd introduced code that looks like this:\nfrom typing_extensions import Self\n\nIt turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a dependency for sqlite-utils - it was installed by one of the", "source": "simonwillison.net", "published": "2026-08-13T23:53:47+00:00", "image": null }, { "title": "From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work", "url": "https://openai.com/index/how-enterprises-put-ai-to-work", "summary": "OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.", "source": "openai.com", "published": "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT", "image": null } ] }