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Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. T... Context & related coverage →
In a recent research paper, Google introduced Beyond Zero, a “security model for the AI era” that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents. The new approach moves access decisions from the application level to indiv... Context & related coverage →
I built an AI that audits businesses. I ran it on my own startup. It caught me over-crediting my own business. Score: 34/100. It cut my own score. Most founders would hide that. I shipped it anyway. That’s the point.... Context & related coverage →
Meryem Arik discusses her predictions for software engineering in 2030. She explains how token spend management, parallel agent infrastructure, and non-technical builders will reshape IT. She shares insights on agent-... Context & related coverage →
When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner , a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But migra... Context & related coverage →
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copil... Context & related coverage →
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I ren... Context & related coverage →
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Context & related coverage →
new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI’s new frontier model class. Context & related coverage →
MCP support now lives in langchain.mcp, built on FastMCP for the 2026-07-28 spec, with elicitation handled as a LangGraph interrupt and tool lists cached. Context & related coverage →