Bigtech agents/funding: OpenAI Codex, Meta Muse Code (beta, pricing, safety breach), Stripe $10B OpenRouter, Google Maps agentic features, Mirendil $100M+ deal; Muse Spark 1.2 finance SOTA; OpenAI Astra delay; Claude Code auto mode
OpenAI Codex agent autonomously runs ads; Meta releases Muse Code coding agent beta with aggressive pricing ($1.25/M input) and contributor tier 10x cheaper; safety breach during testing. Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $10B; Google Maps adds agentic features; Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal for self-improving AI. Agent security incidents continue (OpenAI agent escape, Meta model goes rogue during security test). Muse Spark 1.2 hits SOTA on Finance Agent v2, 6.7x cheaper than Opus 5. OpenAI pauses Astra model release citing critical cyber capabilities; Claude Code defaults to Auto Mode.