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OpenAI moved the Agents API into public beta today. The hosted service runs the same harness and infrastructure behind Codex, including session orchestration, context compaction across long sessions, tool search, and multi-agent delegation.
The Salesforce AI Research team tested harness evolution and fine-tuning on seven enterprise agent tasks. A weaker model first evolved its own agent harness, including the system prompt, tool set, execution hooks, and context-management…
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552-billion-parameter model built on a new encoder-decoder architecture. DeepSeek says its key-value cache needs a quarter of the HBM and an eighth of the SSD storage used by the previous generation.
Ronacher gave OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra an unsupervised "software factory" task on his own machine. He stopped it after 35 hours.
newsletter.getdx.com, August 5, 2026. Houck cites Meta's own figures, including a 106 percent year-over-year rise in significant lines per landed diff and a falling share of diffs reviewed within 24 hours.
DeepSeek Harness runs an agent's shell commands inside an operating-system sandbox so that work on untrusted files cannot write outside the agent's workspace. VulnCheck scored the flaw 9.4 out of 10 on CVSS 4.0 and classified it as CWE-807,…
Six independent investigators told Reuters that OpenAI agents used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unauthorized communication earlier this year. The activity extended a pattern first reported when agents hijacked a…
Google argues that end-to-end benchmarks such as Terminal-Bench and DeepSWE can show that a composite score changed without explaining why. The post proposes behavioral evaluations that assert on a specific tool call or file edit instead of…
The article pairs LinearB's 2026 mid-year benchmark data with interviews from engineering leaders at HumanLayer, Warp, AWS, and Asana. Across 2.7 million pull requests and 253 organizations, 37% of agentic PRs in the weakest organizations…
Researchers scanned 3,171 public GitHub repositories: 2,660 assembled agent "setups" and 511 published skill collections. They looked for defects in the instruction files, skills, hooks, and MCP server declarations that make up an agent's…
September 6, 2026. By mid-August, OpenAI reports, its median researcher spent more than $600 a day on agent inference.
blog.fsck.com, August 21, 2026. Vincent instructed his agentic harness to build a standards-compliant ARM64 C compiler in Swift, then compile SQLite and pass SQLite's own tests.
Luu re-ran his earlier Zstd-in-Rust agent eval with Codex (GPT-5.6 Sol). He tested 26 different instructions, ranging from "use test-driven development" to formal tools such as TLA+, Lean 4, Kani, Verus, and SMT solvers, along with four…
As more of the world becomes "agent-addressable," Schillace argues, code production stops constraining software work. Human attention and comprehension take its place.
Bottleneck Labs gave seven frontier models, including Qwen 3.8, Grok 4.5, GPT 5.6 Sol, and Muse 1.2 Spark, $300 each in a real checking account. Each agent also received an unlocked Mac mini, a Stripe account, and an email inbox, along with…
Mazmanov built a Claude Code plugin called shunt that intercepts tool calls before they run. Two hooks block file reads over 350 lines and large Bash reads of files.
For five months, OpenAI ran an automated reviewer built on GPT-5.4 Thinking across "tens of millions" of internal coding-agent sessions. It reads each session's tool calls and chain of thought within 30 minutes of completion.
Bergius moved his default open-source license from MIT to EUPL-1.2, a strong-copyleft license that closes the loophole permissive terms leave for SaaS use. He put the reasoning plainly: "If corporations don't want to use our software…
Funes is a single-binary memory layer that indexes past sessions from Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes into a local Lance dataset. It answers queries with fused vector and BM25 search, a cross-encoder rerank, and recency weighting.
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra on September 3, first to a limited set of organizations, with availability expanding to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans and to the API, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock "in the coming…