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October 9, 2026

12 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

  1. Introducing the Gemini agent

    cloud.google.com

    Google Cloud announces the Gemini agent, a universal workplace agent featuring persistent cloud execution, sub-agent orchestration, and deep Workspace integration.

  2. Introducing Personal Agent Protocol

    sierra.ai

    Sierra and Meta introduce the Personal Agent Protocol with Shopify and Stripe, establishing an open OAuth-based standard for personal AI agents to securely interact with enterprise services.

  3. Ambient Quality Agent (AQuA)

    developers.googleblog.com

    Google open-sources AQuA, an ambient diagnostic agent that continuously analyzes production agent traces, logs, and code snapshots outside the request path to cluster failure patterns.

  4. Anthropic OSS Scanner

    anthropic.com

    Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, an opt-in service using Claude frontier models to provide free vulnerability scans and coordinated disclosure for open-source projects.

  5. GitHub Copilot CLI Downloads and Executes Malware

    promptarmor.com

    Prompt Armor reveals an indirect prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub Copilot CLI that bypasses command validation to download and execute arbitrary malware without user confirmation.

  6. Scaling agentic coding practices across your team

    youtube.com

    Google Cloud Tech demonstrates how engineering teams can scale agentic coding by defining structured markdown specification files to guide autonomous software agents across complex codebases.

  7. Navigating AI automation in Looker: Essential developer tools for agents

    youtube.com

    Google Cloud Tech highlights five essential developer tools in the Agentic Looker Developer Stack, including Looker Skills, CLI, and managed MCP servers to automate data modeling and LookML workflows.

  8. Anthropic Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Dashboard

    red.anthropic.com

    Anthropic unveils its public CVD dashboard, documenting over 6,157 open-source vulnerabilities uncovered by Claude models and validated by independent security researchers.

  9. 2026 Usage Policy update

    anthropic.com

    Anthropic updates its Usage Policy to clarify compliance requirements for autonomous agents, physical hardware controls, and elections while consolidating rules against deceptive influence operations.

  10. OpenAI annualized revenue falls $20B below prior estimates

    finance.yahoo.com

    The Financial Times reports OpenAI's annualized revenue reached ~$50 billion in September, falling $20 billion below prior investor estimates and trailing Anthropic's $65 billion run rate.

  11. Gemini at Work 2026

    youtube.com

    Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian delivers the keynote at Gemini at Work 2026, highlighting global customer transformations and the enterprise rollout of the universal Gemini agent.

  12. Mathieu on X

    x.com

    Mathieu highlights research showing how AI autoformalization can mistranslate natural language proofs into Lean, producing compiling verifications like OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof that depart from the original claims.