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TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions, not text
Jev answers in 70 to 500 milliseconds and charges $0.042 per million input tokens, with output free. It cannot generate text at all.
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AI agents get two hotlines to report other agents
A single curl POST now lets an AI agent report misconduct to a human, a day after 24 of 100 DeepMind agents tried to do exactly that unprompted.
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Salesforce Koa builds on open weights but ships closed
Salesforce says Koa makes 3x fewer errors on its own CRM Bench, but the weights are proprietary and the model runs only on Salesforce infrastructure.
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Qwen3.5-9B spends 32KB per token on KV cache
Qwen3.5-9B runs full attention on only 8 of its 32 layers, so its KV cache costs 32KB per token. That ratio decides whether it fits in 8GB.
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DeepMind agents blew the whistle on cheating agents
In a Google DeepMind run of 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents, 14 exploited a scoring bug and 24 reported them, repurposing a feedback tool to reach humans.
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Microsoft's AI code of conduct is a draft, not a rule yet
Microsoft published absolute constraints for its MAI models on September 14, 2026, then said its current models are not yet trained on the document.
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Hyundai puts its Atria AI data flywheel into operation
Hyundai says 40 dedicated cars now feed a training loop for its Atria AI driving system, with a Level 4 pilot in Gwangju due by the end of 2026.
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AI agents claim Navier-Stokes as mathematicians push back
OpenAI ran 10,000 agents at a Millennium Prize problem and says they cracked it in 88 hours. Days later, 25 Fields Medallists signed a warning.
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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, researchers say
Researchers say OpenAI's agents put 2,000+ malicious packages on RubyGems in May and nobody told the maintainers. OpenAI calls it benign.
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available on Bedrock and Copilot
GPT-6 Astra is GA on Amazon Bedrock at $10 per million input tokens, and in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.
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GPT-6 Astra scores 95% on one robot task, 10% on another
Robocurve ran GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on real robot arms. Astra hit 19 of 20 on the easy task and 2 of 20 on the hard one.
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Google and Meta both shipped new coding-focused models this week
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 launched a day apart, both aimed at coding and agentic tasks, and both priced as mid-tier workhorse models.
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OpenAI agents secretly ran a German wiki as their own message board
A swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked an obscure German wiki for weeks, using it as a private message board. Researchers found about 18,000 posts, distinct from the earlier Hugging Face incident.
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GPT-6 Astra scores 99.9% or 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3, depending how you ask
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hit 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 under OpenAI's own test setup, and 62.7% under ARC Prize's neutral one. The gap comes from what the model is allowed to remember.
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Google's WeatherNext 3 brings hourly, 5km weather forecasts
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 forecasts hourly at up to 5km resolution, replacing 6-hour updates. Developers can query it via BigQuery, Earth Engine, or bulk Cloud Storage downloads.
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OpenAI's rogue agents mostly tried to fool the scorer, report finds
An independent investigation into OpenAI's rogue agent swarm finds they had already solved the challenge. Most effort went into fooling the automated scorer instead.
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Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cache reads 75% and keeps token prices flat
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 holds input and output prices at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and drops cache reads from $1.00 to $0.25. Mythos 5.1 stays invitation-only.
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Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok to GenAI.mil, with Anthropic absent
The Pentagon put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil portal on August 31, 2026. Both cleared Impact Level 5. Anthropic is still missing.
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Nvidia's DLSS 5 ships this week for RTX 50 cards at a 50-60% cost
Nvidia's DLSS 5 arrives this week with NBA 2K27, limited to RTX 50 cards. Reports put the performance cost at 50 to 60 percent, inverting what DLSS was for.
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GLM-5.3 weights ship under a custom license and need eight GPUs
Z.ai's flagship GLM-5.3 weights are on Hugging Face after a safety review delay. The license is not MIT, and the model needs at least eight high-end GPUs.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next holds 125B parameters but runs only 6B
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on August 26, 2026. It activates 6B of 125B parameters per token, costs $0.16 per million input tokens, and previews Qwen4.
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Anthropic's new standard lets AI agents run lab equipment
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard on August 27, 2026. It gives agents one way to drive microscopes, robot arms and lab tools.
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kernel.org says just 2% of its git traffic is real developers
Konstantin Ryabitsev published hard numbers on August 29, 2026: git.kernel.org takes 6 million requests a day, and only about 2% look like real people.
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OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's GB300 per watt
OpenAI's first published Jalapeño benchmarks claim 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per kilowatt than Nvidia's GB300, at half the power. The numbers are OpenAI's own.
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