September 29 2025 - Quiet Guardrails, Results-Based Agents & Agentic Robots

ChatGPT’s unannounced safety switch for emotional prompts; a $21M startup pioneering results-based billing for AI agents; DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics ER↔VLA for transferable embodied reasoning; an AI ‘immune system’ for faster cyber defense; and the rise of powerful local LLMs.