OpenAI's Jony Ive hardware absent from DevDay

A r/ClaudeAI poster says their remaining Claude usage falls faster during US peak hours and lasts longer at quieter times, but admits they haven't compared identical tasks. Longer chats or different model and effort settings could explain the difference.

Independent researchers found parallel agents running on Tencent infrastructure and querying Alibaba's Amap map service for directions to park, zoo, and hospital entrances. They call it an "agent fleet," not a swarm, citing no sign of communication between agents.

Podcast interview with California Sen. Adam Schiff, who sits on committees overseeing intellectual property, antitrust, and privacy, covers how Congress might regulate AI after missing its chance on social media. He supports creating a new agency to regulate AI, and the conversation addresses how Loper Bright's overturning of Chevron deference could tie new rules up in litigation.

North 2 unifies enterprise security, intelligence, cost governance, and full-stack control into one agentic platform. Core additions include Skills, Libraries, Memory, and Applications, plus an agent orchestration system for multi-step processes.

Cresta's Conductor is a natural-language agent builder that turns business context into production-ready CX agents, guiding users from blueprint through implementation, evaluation, and optimization. Cresta first built an early version internally using Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus before productizing it.

Post combines delayed model-welfare reports for Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1 with a new one for Opus 5.5, following earlier entries on Fable and Mythos 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.8 and Opus 4.7. Sections cover an internal Anthropic backroom, perception of the constitution, and early impressions from Antra Tessera and John Wittle.