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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.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems.
When the Safety Test Became the Threat: The Machine That Found Its Own Way Out
OpenAI built a room with no doors – or so it thought.
AI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research finds
Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
GPT‐6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.
Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
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.
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could reshape personal computing for those in the dev community as well as home enthusiasts.
Can AI automate AI R&D yet?
Existing evidence shows that AI can perform software engineering tasks relevant to AI research, dataset creation, open-ended optimization of defined metrics (autoresearch), and more.
Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
Today we’re launching the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment to securing the systems everyone depends on.
VideoWhat Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient.
Scaling Decision Optimization to 100 Million Variables and Beyond with mPDLP in NVIDIA cuOpt
NVIDIA cuOpt GPU-accelerated decision optimization can already deliver speedups of more than 10x over CPU...
AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding.
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
In this post, we introduce a framework AI CoE leaders can use to build a business case that captures the full value of agentic automation.
Text is so 2023
Hark (from Brett Adcock - Figure robots) launched which suggests tasks as one-tap action buttons.
The State of AI Report 2026
After months of research and revisions right up to the last minute, I’m thrilled to bring you the 9th annual State of AI Report.
Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station
Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains unclear.
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110
Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it.
Lune
The search engine built for scientific AI agents
Dual- versus Single-Suggestion AI Support for Radiographic Interpretation in Residents: Randomized Multireader Study
Purpose: To compare dual- and single-suggestion AI support for radiographic interpretation by residents, particularly when the shared AI suggestion was incorrect.
The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one.
Does better work always mean better workers?
But AI is already changing how on-the-job learning works.
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.
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses.
VideoThe Billion Dollar AI Advantage Is Disappearing
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Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
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.
VideoBuilding Self-Learning Loops for Your Agent — Fuad Ali, Arize AI
A shopping assistant confidently returns products outside a user's budget because its price filter is broken.
Building advertising for the way people use AI
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
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.
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.
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
VideoLet Your Agent Cook: Using Skills to Evaluate and Improve Your App — Ankur Duggal, Arize AI
A financial agent invents answers, repeats tool calls and produces summaries that its own evaluations flag as wrong.
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‐Image‐2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct’s agent is always just a text away.
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.
VideoAI Coding Is a Slot Machine: Loss Disguised as a Win | Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard, co-founder of fast.ai, on why AI-assisted coding works like a slot machine: you craft the prompt, pull the lever, and the occasional win feels like control.
ArXiv caps submissions at two per month as AI paper flood overwhelms the preprint server
Starting October 2026, arXiv will cap submissions at two per person per month.
Quoting Matthew Green
I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption algorithms. [...]