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The ChatGPT Chrome extension can look across open tabs in Chat, and in Work it can control them. OpenAI says it is available on every plan. The extension asks for broad Chrome permissions.
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Mercury's October 15 release lets ChatGPT and Claude request payments and transfers and edit categories. Money does not move until you approve the request in Mercury. The docs list no separate fee.
Claude Code 2.1.299 compacts a terminal session past about 200K tokens after roughly 54 minutes idle, before the one-hour prompt cache expires. The changelog lists no price change.
Epic released a preview of a new launcher it says it vibe coded, and says a Keywords Studios test started it 46% faster than Steam from a cold start.
The Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs can export OpenTelemetry traces of agent turns, model calls, and tool use. Anthropic lists no separate fee.
On October 13, Origin added 20-plus apps for deploys, CI, review, security, monitoring, and project management, and opened publishing to any team.
GitHub's week of October 5: agent sandboxing in the CLI, app, and VS Code, local Ollama models in Copilot CLI, Haiku 5.5, and split license accounts.
Remote control, shipped October 6, lets the Cursor iOS app view and message local agents. The agents stay on your machine, which has to stay awake.
Two September 23 bots: one watches each change as it deploys, the other posts exploitable bugs on every pull request.
