Basis co-founder: opinionated agents key to spreading AI gains company-wide

Together Compiler (TKCC) uses high-throughput agents to re-optimize open models in under 24 hours, hitting up to 2.6x higher TPS on Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, MiniMax M3.1-Flash and DeepSeek v4.1-Flash. It sets SOTA on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX low-latency benchmark at 1111 TPS on MiniMax M3.1-Flash and 1205 TPS on DeepSeek v4.1-Flash.

After saying on the Cheeky Pint podcast it's "quite terrible" for people to hoard DRAM used 5% of the time, Altman said the quote was taken out of context and he's long argued for ramping memory production. Intel expects the shortage to last through at least next year; SK Hynix says it could drag on until 2030.

Sysdig AI Defense monitors every action an AI agent takes, down to kernel-level processes, and blocks risky behavior in line before an action completes. CTO Loris Degioanni says agents now ship code and change infrastructure faster than teams can review by hand.

AI music detectors can mislabel handmade electro-synth tracks as AI-generated — including original recordings made in the 1980s. The false positives create a new risk for indie artists in a music industry already grappling with AI.

Pattie Morales, who develops AI literacy curriculum at the intertribal Indian Community School in southeastern Wisconsin, describes writing AI policies for tools that get updated or replaced before approval. She argues schools should teach how AI works before students use it, framing it around Indigenous values and responsibility to future generations.

Security Analytics gains a "Personal Assistants" bot category alongside Verified Bot and Likely Human, plus a Top statistics widget listing which agents visit a site and their request counts. Granular access policies let site owners set terms per agent instead of blocking all automated traffic.