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Workbench Weekly: The Agents Got the Keys — Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026
Agents got more access this week, from ChatGPT acting on your Chrome tabs to Antigravity's auto-approve mode, and the tools for watching them arrived alongside: Claude's OpenTelemetry traces, Schwab's read-only door and test receipts. Plus Gemini 4 Argon goes generally available, a wave of big open-weight models, and the Copilot models leaving on November 16.
This week: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Grok / xAI, Meta, Perplexity, Elsewhere.
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