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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.
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.
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.
"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya
I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable.
Why AI agents might not be right for you
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Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
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.
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
🔮 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
[AINews] not much happened today
More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below.
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.
Agentic Coding with Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUFs and Notes from COLM
Updates on Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF evaluations for agentic coding
I built a free anime character & prompt library for AI art creator
I'm an AI art creator, and for a while now I've been wanting a better way to organize character prompts, find inspiration, and experiment with different scenes without having to dig through a bunch of different sources.
The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.
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.
Text is so 2023
Hark (from Brett Adcock - Figure robots) launched which suggests tasks as one-tap action buttons.
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.
Agibot
Personal AI agent for your Mac using your own keys
5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models
Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision geometry, joints, and other physics properties before testing robot behavior.
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110
Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it.
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
A recent study of actual coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review forms a significant "bottleneck" for the overall efficiency of AI coding tools, resulting in "little evidence that firms increase software output or reduce employment" by using them.
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.
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.
Secret protection must scale with software
Today, one in three pull requests on GitHub involves an AI agent.
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.
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.
VideoGame of Thrones: Turing Edition | Akarsh Kumar on Core War
Akarsh Kumar wanted to see what would happen if you used LLMs to evolve small assembly programs that compete against each other.
ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
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
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.
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.
VideoTaming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion — Abdul Dakkak, Modular
Abdul Dakkak, chief scientist at Modular, explains why today's AI software stack is a mess, with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM and llama.cpp each patching around different hardware, and how Modular rebuilt the stack from the ground up.
VideoContinuously Improving Agents with Langfuse — Annabell Schäfer & Lotte Verheyden, ClickHouse
Lotte Verheyden and Annabell Schäfer build that monitoring workflow with Langfuse and a sample support agent called Specs.
VideoAI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate — Javier Garza, Snyk
An AI bill of materials turns a repository into a searchable inventory of models, datasets and agents.
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.
VideoBuild a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog
A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.
Reverse Engineering w/ Local?
Can a local model like Qwen 3.8 27B reverse engineer games and programs?
VideoHow to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows — Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
Nnenna Ndukwe uses SignalPay, a deliberately narrow FastAPI payments application, to turn that sequence into quality gates for an AI coding agent.
Is a second MSc worth it? [D]
I’m an AI research engineer based in Africa with about 3 YoEs in RL, LLMs, post-training, and systems efficiency (CUDA/vLLM).
OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1
Quick recap: it's an open-source (Apache-2.0) medical AI toolkit with one rule we never break: patient data stays on your machine.
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G.
Cheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb.