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xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to xAI's Google Clou... Context & related coverage →
Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs , a "self-contained terminal renderer for Me... Context & related coverage →
Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software enginee... Context & related coverage →
A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisio... Context & related coverage →
Multimodal agents that think with images iteratively manipulate visual evidence and invoke tools across many steps. Existing reinforcement learning methods reduce trajectories to scalar rewards, forcing the policy to... Context & related coverage →
While search agents demonstrate impressive capabilities in multi-step question answering, their robustness to poor-quality evidence remains under-explored. This phenomenon occurs rarely in realistic benchmarks but can... Context & related coverage →
Language-guided human following is an important capability for embodied agents, but existing benchmarks typically assume that the target person is visible at the start of an episode. This setting simplifies the proble... Context & related coverage →
Build custom AI agents in Fleet without code, then deploy them to Slack in one click. Give agents custom identities, use them in channels and threads, and keep work moving where your team already collaborates. Context & related coverage →
The International StepUP Competition Series was launched to advance research in pressure-based footstep biometrics through a standardized and challenging evaluation framework. Using the large-scale StepUP-P150 dataset... Context & related coverage →
Improved dangerous-command detection, including more forced rm forms, and provides clearer rejection reasons when commands are denied · #33455 [release/0.144] fix(core) expand is_dangerous_command @dylan-hurd-oai Context & related coverage →
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights! Context & related coverage →