Persistent Agents Meet Their Permission Problem

OpenAI's Dots turn ChatGPT agents into persistent workers with connected apps and their own cloud computers, raising immediate questions about permissions, monitoring and price. We also look at AMD bringing MCP into embedded engineering, GitHub's AI security taskflows finding 24 Android flaws, Anthropic's machine-readable provenance marks, a new bipartisan governors group on AI, safer Cloud Storage transfers by default, Washington's new 'Super Intelligence' terminology, and GitHub Copilot taking control of desktop apps. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-10-02/ Sources: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-ross-agentic-ai-embedded-design-development https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/ross-agentic-ai.html https://github.blog/security/how-we-found-24-android-vulnerabilities-using-our-open-source-ai-security-agent https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content https://apnews.com/article/ai-technology-trump-data-centers-wes-moore-ed0337966ba4f598c7e7bb6ad93ba6f3 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/enabling-end-to-end-checksums-in-cloud-storage https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-01-github-copilot-can-now-interact-with-desktop-apps