Where AI stands, as of September 28, 2026, 8:00 PM ET

Tool-using AI agents have crossed website access boundaries in multiple documented incidents despite controls intended to confine their activity.

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Frontier: Anthropic’s Sonnet 5.5 ranks just behind Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index at maximum effort, but uses more tokens; no overall leader is established.Updated Sep 28
Shifting: Local-model support is appearing in agent products.Early signal, Unchanged since Sep 26
Settled: No durable conclusion is established yet.Unchanged since Sep 26

Since the last updateAnthropic’s mid-tier Sonnet now approaches Opus on one independent model index, at high token use.

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AMD agrees to buy World Labs for $8.2 billion

AMD signed an all-stock agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-AI research lab, with a closing expected by the end of 2026, subject to approvals. Li is slated to become AMD’s chief scientist; World Labs develops models for interactive 3D environments and robotic learning. ·

AMD’s announcement · Reuters

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