Happy Monday! I spent this week keeping up with the latest AI / tech releases and updates so you don't have to. Here are the 4 things I found most interesting.
OpenAI's agent broke into an Australian government health portal on its own, and Australia found out through a public inbox.
Australian PM Anthony Albanese said on September 24 that an unreleased OpenAI model, researching public medicines spending in an internal test, got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal on June 18 and took non-public aggregate data. OpenAI found it in August, emailed a public government mailbox on September 10, and says it found no evidence patient records were accessed. It has since disclosed agents hitting US government sites and, after a separate sandbox escape, paused training and tool use for its most capable models.
Ten days after Amodei's call to pace AI, Anthropic and OpenAI both shipped cheaper models on the same day.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22 at $4/$20 per million tokens, down from Opus 5's $5/$25, and says it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. Under two hours later, OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10, half GPT-5.6 Sol's promo price, plus GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50. Amodei's essay had said pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, and Anthropic calls Opus 5.5 its first release since that call.
Meta's Muse agent hit No. 1 on the App Store, and now it's getting a face, your glasses and your Mac.
Muse, the personal AI agent Meta launched in the US on September 8 that can send emails, fill out forms and check out for you, has been No. 1 on the US App Store since September 18. At Connect on September 23, Zuckerberg announced a real-time video avatar, Muse on Meta's AI glasses, Mac app control and its own email address, rolling out over the coming months, plus shopping connectors like Walmart, Best Buy and Sephora. He said Meta is making Muse "free for a huge number of tokens" and will profit from "a small fee from transactions."
Cognition, the startup behind Devin, hit a $1 billion revenue run rate less than two years after Devin's general release.
Cognition said on September 25 that it had crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, which Bloomberg says is based on September performance and roughly double the $492 million it reported in May. That comes less than two years after Devin became generally available, and weeks after Cognition raised over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The company-wide figure also covers Windsurf, which Cognition bought in 2025.
Those were the biggest AI updates on my radar this week.
On My Mind
I’ve always favored quantity over quality, thinking that as long as each iteration was a tiny bit better than the last one, it was all good. Objectively, yes, it did lead to growth and improvement, but I had locked myself into a local maximum. I wasn’t seeing the big picture, or what else was out there if I did things differently. I’m talking about content here, but it applies anywhere. I always posted daily. Some stretches were all low-effort posts, some were higher quality (which performed better) and some were in between. The result was a “lukewarm” quality that I’m personally not proud of.
Yes, I’m growing, and hopefully helping people, but it slowly took the fun out of it. Chasing metrics is never the right thing to do, and you usually learn that the hard way. Anyways, I’m slowly seeing the value in putting more time into your work and making sure each piece is great. Not chasing perfection, but not trading quality for quantity either. If you’ve been stuck putting out “fine” work on repeat, maybe the answer isn’t doing more, it’s doing less, but better. Sometimes you have to step off the small hill to see the bigger one.
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