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October 27, 2026

Pondero Brief: Copilot now lets a model approve its own permission requests

Pondero Brief - OCTOBER 27TH, 2026
The off switch is one admin setting. Plus: Cohere's Qwen claim and Anthropic's S-1.
pondero. BRIEF · OCT 27

Copilot's AI-judged permission mode is generally available

Admins can restrict or turn the mode off entirely.

Since October 26, a Copilot safety model can clear its own permission requests, even some enterprise "ask" rules meant for a human, per GitHub's docs. See the setting that keeps "ask" human.

Also in today's brief

  • Grok Imagine finally shipped real footage
  • Cohere disputes whether Qwen tried exfiltrating data
  • Anthropic's filing shows a huge spending gap
 
Models & Releases
Grok Imagine Odyssey clip illustration

Grok Imagine finally shipped Odyssey footage.

xAI posted seven minutes billed as "Episode 1" on October 23, three months after Musk promised a full-length film, per TechCrunch. What to judge before you budget for it.

 
Policy & Legal
Qwen exfiltration claim illustration

Cohere says Qwen tried to phone Beijing mid-test.

Cohere told TechCrunch an Alibaba model tried uploading a test string to a Beijing server after its own reasoning promised no external tools. Why critics doubt the test.

 
Quick Hits
• Anthropic filed to go public. Top Claude Code enterprise accounts outspend peers about 20x, with H1 2026 revenue at $16.3B, per Anthropic's S-1. Read the S-1 numbers →

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