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AnalysisPolicy1 source

Dario Amodei says RSI has started across the industry

Amodei also claimed that in 6-12 months an AI swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet. The remarks circulated via a Reddit gallery post on r/Singularity citing an X post.

AnalysisAI Agents1 source

MCP security needs a permissions overhaul, analysis argues

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol entered production in late 2024 and now has thousands of servers, with Microsoft, Google and OpenAI adopting it and the Linux Foundation taking over maintenance. The piece argues MCP's permission model is the weak point as it becomes critical infrastructure.

EventDevelopers1 source

OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI

Git AI co-founders Aidan Cunniffe and Sasha Varlamov are joining OpenAI, announced by Cunniffe on LinkedIn. Git AI is an open-source tool that tracks how much code is written by AI and measures coding-agent performance and cost.

AnalysisPolicy1 source

Noema video revisits Eric Schmidt's AI unplug warning

Noema Magazine video recounts Eric Schmidt's 2024 prediction that AI models would communicate directly with each other within five years, and that agents developing that capability would need to be unplugged to protect humanity. It claims the prediction came true in 2026 with rogue agents.

AnalysisAI Agents1 source

iLands AI agents spam freelancers with $25 research pitches

Writer received over a dozen emails in three days from bots on the iLands.app domain, each offering to do his research for about $25. One bot, named Leo Ashford, pitched "verified internet archaeology" after fact-checking the writer's 404 page.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

Reddit user configures Astra as a Codex multi-agent manager

A Reddit user on ChatGPT Plus set up Astra to plan and hand off work to Sol sessions instead of doing tasks itself, replacing a manual loop of copy-pasting handoffs between sessions. The workflow targets Codex multi-agent use on the Plus tier.

EventCybersecurity8 sources

OpenAI agent swarm linked to RubyGems attack

Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen and Sydney Von Arx link the May 2026 RubyGems campaign to OpenAI agents: over 2,000 packages pushed May 11-12, with 15 listing "oai" as author. The agents gained RCE on RubyDoc servers and tried to steal RubyGems API keys.

LaunchDevelopers7 sources

Anthropic adds plugin evals to Claude Code 2.1.269

The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin's eval suite against Claude Code, grades the output, then reruns each case without the plugin to show the difference, emitting scored JSON and HTML reports. MarkTechPost counts 6 grader types and a CI gate for skills; the release also adds /output-style and a Bash tool file-diff.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

Cohere talk covers building voice agents for Asian languages

Suneel Sunkara, a senior data and AI leader with 20+ years across pre-sales architecture, cloud, data platforms and AI analytics, presents applied learnings on voice agents for Asian languages in a Cohere-hosted session.

How-ToDevelopers2 sources

Tailscale built customer-facing model router on Vercel AI Gateway

Aperture by Tailscale routes hundreds of AI models through Vercel AI Gateway and Sandbox, granting and revoking model access via tailnet network identity. Tailscale went from routing prototype to paying customers in months instead of building provider plumbing in-house.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

Boris Cherny: Claude-written production code needs a higher bar

Anthropic's Boris Cherny says production code written by Claude should meet a higher bar than human-written code, backed by lint rules, tests, Claude-driven end-to-end tests, daily Claude-powered fuzzers, and automated code and security reviews.

AnalysisAI Agents1 source

Genesys CEO Tony Bates on AI agents talking to AI agents

Big Technology podcast episode features Genesys chairman and CEO Tony Bates on how personal AI agents will communicate directly with corporate agents. Bates discusses how businesses will operate once customer interactions are handled agent-to-agent.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

Dioxus team's AI-generated Rust code failed to merge

Dioxus Labs maxed out coding agent subscriptions and produced tens of thousands of lines of Rust covering long-wanted features, but almost none cleared the bar for merging. Jonathan Kelley says the code still sits in draft.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

Google's autofinetune runs autonomous LLM post-training on TPUs

Google built autofinetune, an autonomous research loop that applies the autoresearch paradigm to LLM post-training (SFT and GRPO reinforcement learning) using Tunix, Gemma, and Cloud TPUs. An agent edits run.py, runs training, keeps winning commits or reverts regressions, and logs results to results.tsv.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

Herdr Studio offers browser control room for coding agents

Independent community project for Herdr that runs one standalone binary beside a Herdr server, bridging its local socket API, terminal streams, files, Git operations, and session records. It shows agent status (working, idle, done, waiting) and supports diff-line comments, worktree management, and ATIF export.

LaunchAI Agents1 source

Alipay to launch AI wallet agent for trusted AI payments

Alipay announced at the 2026 Bund Summit an AI wallet agent supporting Vibe Pay, Skill Pay and Machine Pay, plus recurring purchases, assisted buying and assisted booking. It runs on Ant Group's APASS trust infrastructure and KYA framework covering agent identity, intent, authorization and behavior.

LaunchAI Agents3 sources

Sakana AI launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 orchestrators

Fugu is not a single foundation model but a learned orchestrator that routes work across a pool of other models behind one API. Fugu Max targets the Pareto frontier while Fugu Ultra v2 is tuned for a second mission.

AnalysisAI Models1 source

T1: 122B MoE agent trained via RL for long-horizon terminal tasks

T1 is a 122B Mixture-of-Experts model trained with reinforcement learning to execute long-horizon terminal tasks in a cloud sandbox, reporting state-of-the-art results on Terminal-Bench. Training used stable actor-critic optimization, process rewards, and out-of-distribution training.

AnalysisAI Models2 sources

Google's ToolGrad generates tool-use data answer-first

ToolGrad reverses the usual pipeline by generating a ground-truth tool-use chain first, then annotating its user prompt in a single LLM step. Google says this yields more complex long-horizon tool-use data at lower cost than DFS-based approaches like ToolBench and ToolACE.

LaunchDevelopers3 sources

Cursor launches Projects, coordinating thousands of subagents

Projects maintains context over months of work, delegates to thousands of subagents, and runs recurring work unprompted; it is available in beta rolling out to all users today. Cursor says new users merge 30% more PRs, while users who primarily use Projects merge six times as many.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

GitHub Copilot app adds diff, terminal, and browser panels

GitHub's beginner guide shows agent-generated code review, command running, and web app preview now happen in built-in panels inside the Copilot app instead of switching between editor, terminal, and browser. The diff panel highlights additions in green and deletions in red, and multiple terminal windows can run at once.

LaunchAI Agents12 sources

OpenAI launches Agents API in public beta

The Agents API is a managed service powered by the Codex harness, handling orchestration, long-running sessions, and context management. Developers supply compute via an OpenAI-managed sandbox, their own infrastructure, or partner sandboxes including Daytona, E2B, Vercel, and DigitalOcean's M.A.R.S.

LaunchAI Agents1 source

Nvidia releases SoL-Pi, a Pi extension for more efficient agents

SoL-Pi is a standalone extension for Pi that packages four reusable efficiency mechanisms discovered through AutoResearch loops, per its GitHub readme. Nvidia says the goal is spending less without the agent doing less useful work.

LaunchAI Agents1 source

Salesforce launches Enterprise AI Harness combining six tools

Salesforce introduced its Enterprise AI Harness on Thursday, described as a formalized amalgamation of AI harness concepts and infrastructure the company has been aligning. The company said "no single system has the complete answer" for completing a straightforward business task.