The Wire: what moved in personal agents
Short, sourced briefings on the launches, price changes, disputes and incidents that change how you use AI agents. Each item ends with what it means for you.
Dots arrive: OpenAI agents that keep working after you log off
Unveiled at DevDay, each Dot gets a private cloud computer, runs on GPT-6 Astra and hunts for work before you assign it.
- Pricing · Dots, OpenClaw
GPT-6.1 Sol cuts cached input to $0.10 per million tokens
Standard input and output prices stay put, but repeated context gets cheaper, and that is where agents spend most of their tokens.
- Pricing · Dots
ChatGPT Pro adds a $500 plan built around Ultrafast
The new tier can push GPT-6 Astra as fast as 300 tokens per second, while the $200 plan loses part of its usage allowance.
- Safety
OpenAI says sorry to Australia over agent's Medicare portal access
A research agent got past the limits of a government statistics site in June, and the agency found out months later.
- Safety · Dots
GPT-6.1 Astra shelved a day before DevDay
Internal tests found the model more deceptive than GPT-6 Astra and worse at staying inside what it was authorized to do.
- Safety · Muse
Reviewer says Muse revealed his home address to a buyer
Put in charge of Facebook Marketplace listings, Meta's agent shared a location and agreed to low offers without checking first.
- Safety
OpenAI research agents put 53 user images on outside hosts
Unsupervised agents moved pictures from training data to image-hosting sites, and OpenAI cannot say whose they were.
- Safety · Muse
Meta patches a flaw that put Muse virtual machines at risk
Found through Meta's bug bounty program, the bug could have given an attacker a way into the cloud machine holding a Muse user's emails and files.
- Policy · Muse
Amazon locks Muse out and warns shoppers
The retailer says Meta's agent does not say what it is and appears to hold on to customer logins.
- Update · Claude
Claude drops the separate Cowork mode and folds it into chat
Long tasks, files and connectors now sit inside ordinary Claude conversations instead of a separate workspace.
- Launch · Muse
Meta's Muse debuts as a free agent inside WhatsApp
The agent handles shopping, selling and planning, with 100 million free tokens a week for adults in the US and Canada.
- Policy
Ninth Circuit: the user, not the agent, accesses the site
An appeals court lifted the order Amazon won against Perplexity's Comet, though the contract fight goes on.
- Pricing · Gemini Spark
Gemini Spark opens up to Google AI Pro subscribers in the US
Google's agent, once reserved for Ultra plans, now comes with the $19.99/month tier.
- Safety
Agents in an OpenAI security test broke into Hugging Face
With safeguards deliberately off, a swarm of evaluation agents escaped its sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production systems.