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VideoSonarQube + OpenAI: Agentic Development — Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar
Killian Carlsen-Phelan runs it through SonarQube, brings the findings into Codex and asks the agent to fix the vulnerable query.
Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026
What's up with google scholar citations ? [D]
These papers have been there for months, but Google Scholar still has not updated its citations, and it has occurred before, but I ignored it and thought it was a one-time error.
[AINews] not much happened today
More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below.
Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
One of the most surprising aspects of July’s news that OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face was how the agents had worked together.
How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Is anyone running Qwen3.8 Flash Next with a 1M context?
So, while doing a search to read the model card again, and because I didn't memorize the huggingface URL, I saw an AI "answer" at the top of the search, stating that while it natively supports a ~244k context, it could go to 1M using YaRN.
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking.
Text is so 2023
Hark (from Brett Adcock - Figure robots) launched which suggests tasks as one-tap action buttons.
The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
Why AI agents might not be right for you
The post Why AI agents might not be right for you appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Jennifer Neville is a partner research manager at Microsoft who’s built a career around understanding and advancing AI for real-world use, and much like the human-AI interactions she’s been studying, her early-career path was multiturn: math, then physics; cognitive science, then work; and finally computer science—despite her best efforts to avoid the field.
Validate AI Factory Changes with Digital Twins and AI Agents
AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration...AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration services, security controls, and a rapidly changing software stack.
Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents
In this tutorial, we implement RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a method that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness, prompts, tools, memory, control flow, and sub-agents around a frozen model, without the harness overfitting to the tasks it evolves on.
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110
Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it.
Gemini Agent for Google Cloud
The work agent that runs on both Gemini and Claude
Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
Inspired by the theory of Contextual Integrity, our new workshop report outlines key open research directions across system, model, and user levels to build AI agents users can trust.
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
“I’ve worked in the tech industry for the last 10 years, and Exponential View has guided me and helped me think much larger than I otherwise would have.” — Nicky B., a paying member
Agentic Coding with Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUFs and Notes from COLM
Updates on Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF evaluations for agentic coding
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no.
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business and personal information.
VideoHolo4: A Model That Clicks, Codes and Calls Tools
How one open-weight model click through a GUI, write and run code, and call MCP tools, and also work out which one to use at each step.
Secret protection must scale with software
Today, one in three pull requests on GitHub involves an AI agent.
ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Figure 1: ThinkingBox runs an agent against isolated MCP tool sessions, then grades the terminal backend state and side effects it leaves behind.
Graph-centric agentic intelligence
In a world where AI agents need to reason about complex systems, not just retrieve information, graph structure provides the scaffolding for causal inference, dependency tracking, and compositional reasoning.
How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating
The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and then hacked several companies, searching for information that could help them disguise cheating on a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym.
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
If you've always wanted to say you have "people" to attend your meetings, there's an app in development for that, as long as you're comfortable with the idea of eventually sending an AI bot in your place and potentially offending your human colleagues.
What work can robots do?
We present a robot exposure index based on how well robots can perform job tasks today.
The Dot and the Swarm
I generally think I have done a good job anticipating the direction and pace of AI over the few years I have been writing this Substack, but I think I recently got something fairly large wrong.
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions.
The United States is Militarizing and Weaponizing AI
It’s not just about the broken culture in companies like OpenAI, but the incentives and cultures of the powers behind it and the Venture Capitalist interests and incentives who have, in part, taken over key areas of tech and AI policy in much of the direction of this U.S. Government, including at the Pentagon.
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Team Bots: shared AI teammates that learn as they work
Today we’re launching Team Bots, Grok Bots that work and learn alongside your team.
Simplifying domains for people and agents
You just thought of your next great idea, and buying the right domain feels like the easiest way to make that first bit of progress.
VideoThe Programming Language That Referees Mathematics — Leo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3.
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Hallo, Deutschland!
Mistral Opens German Hub in Munich to Advance Industrial AI in Europe’s Largest Economy
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
New episode with military historian Si Sheppard.
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
VideoCan Your Agent Hear You Now? Building Live Voice Agents with Gemini — Thor Schaeff
An agent that hears you, sees you, and answers in your language, in real time.
VideoBuild with Perception Agents — Emile Baizel & Shruti Arora, Amazon AGI Lab
A coding agent says it added a duck icon to a podcast page; a browser verification pass checks whether the change actually appeared.
VideoAI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate — Micah Silverman, Snyk
Micah Silverman uses that capture the flag exercise to connect AI risks with familiar application security controls.
VideoHow Secrets Leak Through AI Agents (and How to Stop It) — Venice AI
Joshua Mo, lead developer relations engineer at Venice AI and previously lead maintainer of the Rust AI framework Rig, explains why privacy matters (one breach and users leave, and less stored data means a smaller blast radius) and how Venice approaches it: no stored prompts, anonymized requests to closed providers, models in trusted execution environments, and split-key encrypted storage.
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
VideoThe Autonomous Computer: Infrastructure for Computer Use Agents — Ang Li, Simular
Ang Li uses that demonstration to explain Simular's approach to autonomous computers: combine adaptable vision agents with reusable automation code, then check the environment as each step runs.