Chrome is testing “Critical Actions in History,” a new Chrome Canary feature that records what Gemini does during browser tasks. The audit view follows Google’s experiments with letting Gemini use saved passwords to complete web tasks, adding visibility into actions such as password fills, file downloads, and visited pages.

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OpenAI is temporarily cutting GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by up to 33.3%, lowering generated-output costs from $30 to $20 per million tokens through November 21, 2026. The promotion follows July’s GPT-5.6 repricing, which reduced Terra and Luna prices but left Sol at its original rates.

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Windows 11 is restoring File Explorer previews for internet-downloaded files, but with a new “Preview anyway” override instead of removing the security block. The change builds on recently restored previews for downloaded PDFs and other non-HTML files and should let users view trusted files without first opening Properties or running PowerShell.

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Microsoft has removed the clean-install prerequisite for Smart App Control, allowing supported Windows 11 users to try the security feature on existing installations. The Windows 11-exclusive protection can block unsigned or untrusted applications before they run, while potentially using fewer resources than traditional always-on scanning.

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Microsoft is preparing a native OneDrive sync engine for macOS that should make both initial account setup and ongoing file synchronization significantly faster. The update also promises lower CPU, memory, and battery usage while making synced files appear more promptly in Finder.

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Microsoft will complete the retirement of Microsoft Defender Application Guard (MDAG) and Windows Information Protection (WIP) support in Microsoft Edge by the end of September 2026. The deadline primarily affects organizations that still depend on these protections in Edge on Windows 10, giving administrators time to find supported replacements.

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Microsoft will replace the Windows Production PCA 2011 code-signing certificate before it expires on October 19, 2026, then move Windows production signing toward post-quantum cryptography in 2027. The transition described in KB5125813 could break software and deployment processes that hardcode certificate identities, algorithm names, or signature parameters.

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Microsoft is rolling out a Teams meeting-policy control that detects external recording and AI notetaking bots and places them in the lobby for approval. Targeted-release tenants are receiving the feature now, with worldwide availability expected by the end of September 2026, giving administrators a way to prevent unapproved applications from entering confidential meetings.

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Anthropic identified the cause of a new Claude outage within 21 minutes, but developers still faced elevated errors while the company applied a fix. The August 24 incident affected Claude Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5 and Opus 4.8, along with Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

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The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) roadmap shifts attention from the recently released stateless architecture to the next problems of running AI agents at scale: server-initiated events, agent identity, progressive tool discovery, and clearer tool results. It builds on MCP’s stateless 2026-07-28 release, which removed protocol-level sessions and made remote MCP servers easier to operate behind standard HTTP infrastructure.

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Two years after Salesforce launched Agentforce, its partners report growing customer curiosity but no meaningful revenue from the AI platform. Salesforce partners are consulting firms, technology providers, resellers, and implementation specialists that help customers adopt Salesforce products. A TD Cowen survey found that early trials and buying activity have not yet turned Agentforce into a source of partner bookings, challenging Salesforce’s claims that demand is accelerating.

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Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium now include an extra 50 GB of primary Exchange Online mailbox storage, raising the supported limit from 50 GB to 100 GB. The primary mailbox is the user's active inbox, calendar, and contacts. Microsoft delivers the increase as a licensing change through a new service plan, a named capability inside the product license, rather than as a new mailbox type. The packaging rollout started in June 2026 and continues through September 2026. You should verify the result per user, because not every mailbox in a tenant receives the extra quota at the same time.

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Microsoft’s Windows 11 26H1 build 28120.2760 adds automatic PDF and non-HTML download previews to File Explorer, support for in-app purchases in elevated WinUI 3 apps, and a fix for disappearing mouse pointers. It follows the earlier 26H1 flight that restored Feature Flags and refreshed AutoPlay, while also improving packaged app version details in Settings.

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Nvidia’s Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) is a research harness that wraps an AI model with tools, memory, feedback loops, and a supervisory agent. By placing Claude Opus 5 inside this system, Nvidia lifted its score from 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3, solving all 183 puzzles across the benchmark’s 25 interactive games. The result suggests that harness design can matter as much as, or more than, changing the underlying model for difficult, long-running agent tasks.

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Anthropic is expanding Claude Mythos 5 beyond its limited defender program: Claude Enterprise customers can now use it through Claude Security to scan codebases, identify vulnerabilities, and propose patches. The company is also integrating the model into partner security products and launching a $35 million credit fund for open-source software security, while keeping direct model access restricted.

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A Microsoft-signed driver built into Defender can be repurposed to remove antivirus and EDR components before they start, giving attackers with administrator-level privileges a powerful boot-time evasion technique. Check Point Research says the approach works from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, bypasses common driver-blocking controls, and is not currently linked to real-world attacks.

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A newly identified malware family called SynkLoader is being delivered through Microsoft Teams phishing messages that impersonate corporate IT staff. Its most deceptive component displays a fake Windows lock screen to capture passwords, while other modules provide persistence, remote control, network tunneling, and reconnaissance that could support ransomware attacks.

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Windows 11 build 26340.9233 is rolling out in the Experimental channel with per-app camera, microphone, and location permissions for traditional Win32 software, turning a previously tested 26H2 feature into part of the latest preview release. The build also refreshes AutoPlay, adds automatic app maximization, and brings PDF previews to File Explorer; these changes extend Windows 11 26H2’s earlier privacy and window-management experiments.

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Wi-Fi 7’s mandatory WPA3 security is exposing a new compatibility problem: the workaround designed to keep older clients connected requires support that many devices do not have. CableLabs is urging access-point, chipset, and client manufacturers to prioritize WPA3-Personal Compatibility Mode before more home networks encounter devices that suddenly cannot connect.

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