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Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluatio... Context & related coverage →
Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa app... Context & related coverage →
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature al... 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 →
Managed Deep Agents includes a new API for managing reactions for your distributed agents, and a system to dynamically assign emoji responses with your instrument of choice. Learn more. Context & related coverage →
How we built a model router into Open SWE's harness that cut median cost per coding task by 64% with no measurable drop in quality, and how to build your own. Context & related coverage →
I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it. Context & related coverage →
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows usin... Context & related coverage →
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology. Context & related coverage →
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models. Context & related coverage →