Frontier Daily (Sep 26): 7 items from OpenAI, Hacker News, Simon Willison and more

Every day Laojin pulls the official channels and compiles the past 48 hours of AI news into a short brief: curation only, no commentary, with the original link and publish time attached to every item.

1. Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

Proaction uses Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to build, operate, and sell modern fleet management faster, boosting sales 60% and saving 75+ hours.

Source: OpenAI Blog · 2026-09-25 · Original

2. Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

Alan Kay performs an improvisational layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon during Kristen Nygaard's 100-year birthday celebration.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-09-25 · Original

3. Yes, Claude can do nine loops

Anthropic research titled "Yes, Claude can do nine loops," drawing 98 upvotes and 46 comments on Hacker News.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-09-25 · Original

4. Quoting John Gruber

Simon Willison quotes John Gruber saying Meta's Muse is technically groundbreaking and the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, but people may not realize how powerful and dangerous it is.

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-25 · Original

5. [AINews] The Future of Latent Space

Latent Space recaps a busy week of AI news and outlines plans for AINews v3, merging its Discord with AINews, and building a multi-show, multi-newsletter network.

Source: Latent Space · 2026-09-25 · Original

6. Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican

Simon Willison photographs a Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, and California Brown Pelican in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary using a new Canon EF 200-800mm lens.

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-09-25 · Original

7. Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

Runway introduces GWM Worlds 2 and its WorldPrompt input format for specifying generated worlds and real-time actions, with Latent Space interviewing Runway's CTO and principal research scientist.

Source: Latent Space · 2026-09-25 · Original

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_Sources: official blogs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Qwen; official RSS of Simon Willison, Latent Space, Import AI and One Useful Thing; Anthropic site monitoring, top AI discussions on Hacker News and open-source updates from key AI orgs on GitHub. Mistral / Meta AI have no stable public feed; X sources are curated by hand. This is a source digest — no commentary from Laojin._