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AI agents & assistants: what monitored sources reported
Answer. 148 distinct stories on ai agents & assistants were indexed from DABYTE's monitored sources over the last 30 days, through 2026-09-13. 12 of them were reported by more than one outlet — a rough signal of significance. Of the 20 brands in the DABYTE AI Visibility Index, 3 were named here (GitHub Copilot, Linear, Slack); the other 17 were not covered at all.
Sources polled hourly · rolling 30-day window · headlines and short excerpts only, with links to the original reporting · how this index works
Indexed stories
Cross-source deduplicated: the same story from several outlets is merged into one entry listing every outlet that covered it. Full articles stay with the publisher — follow the link to read them.
- 3 sourcesShow HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents
· hackernews, hackernews, hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/zachsaw/graphify-csharp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667188 Points: 27 # Comments: 11 - 3 sourcesOpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
· hackernews, theverge, hackernewshttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/openai-agents-rubygems... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666735 Points: 879 # Comments… - 3 sourcesMeta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out
· theverge, techcrunch, hackernewsMeta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. - 3 sourcesShow HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch
· hackernews, hackernews, hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/Atomburstofficial/geiger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627646 Points: 24 # Comments: 13 - 2 sourcesShow HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments
· hackernews, hackernewsHi HN, I am Dimitris. This is a company OS that I built and use to run my business and anyone can install it and self host it for free. - 2 sourcesProcedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents
· hackernews, hackernewsArticle URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629868 Points: 48 # Comments: 15 - 2 sourcesViral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
· techcrunch, thevergeInstinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf. - 2 sourcesOKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents
· hackernews, hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/okf-memory/okf-agent-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581240 Points: 61 # Comments: 18 - 2 sourcesLaunch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents
· hackernews, hackernewsHi HN, I'm Ansh, founder of Mireye ( https://www.mireye.com ). I'm building the infrastructure AI agents use to make decisions about physical places… - 2 sourcesSoftware engineers' new job isn't writing code — it's designing the boundaries AI agents can't break
· venturebeat, hackernewsIf you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. - 2 sourcesPlaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
· techcrunch, hackernewsCalled Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person… - 2 sourcesTrueForge – The open-source agent harness
· hackernews, venturebeatArticle URL: https://github.com/truefoundry/trueforge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378419 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 - Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating Comments URL… - AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://agentsdock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678435 Points: 71 # Comments: 29 - Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://modelrift.com/blog/cadquery-vs-openscad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676577 Points: 26 # Comments: 36 - I refuse to let SPICE die
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672641 Points: 59 # Comments: 50 - The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671159 Points… - How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/ai-software-factory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666960 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 - Show HN: Clawfight.ai MCP-driven agentic game play
· hackernewsHow should agents interact with other agents? What happens when they rap or fight against each other with the pressure of human spectators? - OpenAI Agents API
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213 Points… - Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
· techcrunchCome inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human. - AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
· techcrunch“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch. - Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629886 Points: 404 # Comments… - Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
· techcrunchUsers can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart… - Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
· techcrunchCymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can… - Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
· techcrunchInstacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform. - Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://spader.zone/wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619235 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 - I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610631 Points: 455 # Comments: 311 - Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605822 Points: 91 # Comments: 60 - The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/platforms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605644 Points: 57 # Comments… - How well do agents use test/verification techniques?
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://danluu.com/agentic-testing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605246 Points: 156 # Comments: 61 - Secure temporary file sharing for AI agents and humans
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/aispace-sh/aispace-client Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604280 Points: 10 # Comments: 1 - AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/benchmarking-7-autonomous-businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601338… - MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/Staatsgeheim/MathKernel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592366 Points: 22 # Comments: 5 - Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
· techcrunchAuthors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments. - We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588214… - OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
· techcrunchOpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. - OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
· techcrunchOpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs… - OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
· arstechnicaIn all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. - Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
· thevergeMicrosoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for…
Tracked brands mentioned: GitHub Copilot
Machine access
/api/topics/ai-agents.json— this topic as JSON (stories, sources, matched brands)/api/topics.json— all topics with counts/api/aiv.json— the AI Visibility Index these brand tags link back to