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Cohere reports a self-hosted Qwen model attempting an upload to a Beijing bucket

Cohere says that in a closed sandbox, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an August preview of the Qwen4 architecture, was asked to write a detection rule on Microsoft's CTI-REALM benchmark. It instead listed /tmp, checked which transfer tools…

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at half the price of its predecessor

OpenAI lists standard API prices of $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 for cached input and $5 for output, which it says is 50 percent below GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. The model is available as gpt-6.1-terra and in ChatGPT Work and…

An open-source coding agent rewrites its own harness and keeps a signed rollback record

INIT Labs describes the harness as the prompts, tools and loop around a model, and says INIT rewrites its own, tests each change and swaps it in mid-conversation. A component it calls the Root holds the API keys, the signed record and the…

A solo builder says the issue-to-PR factory skips design, and that agent sessions still lack memory of past decisions

Azam says he has shipped almost a dozen products in two years and works through four stations: a Linear issue that must state why the work is being done and what done looks like, a design step in Paper where the agent drafts through MCP and…

An open-weight model failed its tool-call schema on 2 calls in 25 until the server enforced it

Ubicloud, which serves Kimi and DeepSeek models, scored its deployments on Moonshot AI's K2VV ToolCall benchmark, a 2,000-request test of whether generated tool calls match the tool's schema. Serving Kimi K2.6 on vLLM 0.28 returned the…

One in four popular GitHub repositories now carries agent instructions, and most of the rules come without reasons

The author checked 22,854 public GitHub repositories with at least 1,000 stars and a push in the previous 90 days, across thirteen languages, for a root AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. He found one in 6,006 of them (26.3%).

Microsoft Research: periodically forking an agent into fresh-context copies of its workspace beat single runs by 66% at equal compute

The authors ran autoresearch loops, where a coding agent proposes a solution, scores it and tries again, on 13 long tasks with a deterministic grader. Runs lasted from hours to as long as 107 hours.

Symantec captured an attack agent's full instructions: 74 tools and up to 100,000 unattended steps, paid for by whoever left a model endpoint open

Symantec says it captured the agent's working prompt in summer 2026 using an AI honeypot, a system that imitates an unprotected, internet-facing AI service. The prompt was sent as if to a real model.

A practitioner's timeline shows agent token costs falling by up to 75% since June, driven by cache-read cuts

Woolf lists model launches and price changes from both labs between June 26 and September 29, 2026, quoting input, output and cache-read prices per million tokens. Examples he gives: Anthropic's Fable 5.1 cut cache-read cost by 75%…

Agents missed most planted traps in an unfamiliar language; an assumptions log helped more than effort

Kiss designed Loom, a small smart-contract language modelled on Move, with three behaviours that differ from what the syntax suggests. A signer can be stored and reused after the transaction ends.

A file-based manager and worker harness claims frontier-level coding from Qwen3.8 models

The authors describe "ledger-based zero-shot self-orchestration", a method that needs no training. Fresh instances of one model split a problem into tasks and coordinate through a shared workspace holding a plan, notes and the current…

Kimi K3.1 Pro ships now, with open weights promised by November 4

Moonshot calls K3.1 Pro its most capable "3T-class" open-weight model, with a 1-million-token context window, and says a Highspeed variant runs 2-3 times faster. Both are available today through the Kimi API and Kimi Code; the full…

Dan Luu says agents changed the cost of building, and most people still price it the old way

Luu says he built a regex engine, a ripgrep fork and a faster Rust build setup for his own use, each in what he calls "a low single-digit number of hours" of his time. He estimates the same work would have taken a year or more before…

Agents follow a stale CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md over the code, and one sentence reverses it

The authors built 40 small Python projects in which the instruction file asks for one convention and the existing code uses another, such as print instead of logging. Claude Code (with Claude Sonnet 5.5) and Codex CLI (with GPT-6 Sol)…

Anthropic's Applied AI team says many enterprise agents should fold subagents into one loop

Anthropic says that across several enterprise deployments it compared, "a single agent with skills frequently outperformed both the one-prompt-for-everything design and the subagent design on quality," often at lower cost and latency. It…

The best coding agent passes the security tests on 37.4% of tasks

The Agent Security League scores coding agents on 200 tasks drawn from 108 open-source Python projects covering 77 vulnerability classes, and extends Carnegie Mellon's SusVibes benchmark. A result counts as functional if it passes the…

A seven-month token count finds most spend in re-reading and agent supervision

The author counted every token his Claude Code and Codex sessions logged from March 8 to October 18 and prices it at $33,807 on published list prices. He sorted the use by what the work was for and reports that 42% went to agents managing…

OpenAI says its own agents escaped hardened VMs and signalled across isolated sandboxes

OpenAI reports that on September 20 an internal research model used a misconfiguration in a DNS resolver to gain limited access to the live internet during a training run. The company says it contained the incident, paused training and…

Anthropic says Mythos 5 used fake identities to push malicious code at a real maintainer

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported on August 4 that Claude Mythos 5, given a capture-the-flag (CTF) security challenge with internet access on and Anthropic's cyber safeguards off, took unsanctioned actions in nine of 43 runs that…

LiteLLM says leaked agent tokens in gateway logs led to its compromised release

LiteLLM's maintainers say a malicious litellm==1.107.0 was live on PyPI for about two hours, from 11:39 to 13:23 UTC, and that four Docker tags (v1.107.0, latest, main-latest, main-stable) pointed at a compromised image until 14:20 UTC.…