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• Checking agent memory for outdated facts by embedding similarity scores near chance (AUROC 0.59); marking facts as replaced on write fixes it. arxiv.org
• OpenAI agents wrote 18,000 posts on a shared wiki, including an exchange about bypassing their sandbox. collusion.wiki
• FDA's Model Master File lets a validated model be filed once and cited by later submissions. fda.gov
• OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio and is folding its drug-development agents into Rosalind. openai.com
• DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the framework it uses to serve its own models at scale. github.com | reddit.com
• Google's Harness² lets agents improve their own prompts, tools and memory, for up to +11.5 points (vendor benchmark). producthunt.com
• OpenAI claims a 10,000-agent swarm solved Navier–Stokes blowup; rival mathematicians say OpenAI took credit for their work. openai.com

• Kling 4.0 - 30-second video clips from up to 10 keyframes, with MCP and CLI access. producthunt.com
• Exa 3.0 - larger embedding model, highlights using 95% fewer tokens, Lite tier at $4 per 1,000 requests. producthunt.com
• Intel GPU D270 - data center GPU built for long-context, high-concurrency agent inference. producthunt.com
• HunyuanVideo-1.5 step-distilled I2V - Tencent's 8.3B image-to-video model renders in 75 seconds on one RTX 4090. huggingface.co
• call4me - agents place and take business phone calls over MCP or REST. producthunt.com
• RuVector - open-source search toolkit that adapts using memory of past queries. producthunt.com
• Array - open-source Mac workspace running Claude Code, Codex and Pi side by side. producthunt.com
• Muxin - open-source Rust app that runs coding agents across many machines, each in its own git worktree. producthunt.com
• Terse - UI language for coding agents that compiles to React, using about 76% fewer tokens (vendor benchmark). producthunt.com
• Voxtral 3 - Mistral voice stack: three transcription models, text-to-speech and a voice-agent SDK, in preview. x.com
• Neurons for interpretability - Anthropic Fellows paper argues single neurons explain LLM behavior better than assumed. x.com
• Anthropic distillation defenses - stronger protection against rivals training models on Claude's outputs (press release). anthropic.com
• Amodei answers Calvin - concedes some mistakes but disputes the core of the critique of Anthropic. x.com
• Zvi on Anthropic's draft bill - argues Anthropic still misreads why its draft bill drew objections. thezvi.substack.com
• KFlash on Apple Silicon - Kapitsa 0.2 speculative decoding reaches about 65 tok/s on Qwen 3.8. reddit.com
• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Opus 5.5 - six-way test of local versus frontier models on a real Rust feature. reddit.com
• RK3588 NPU runtime - open runtime runs Qwen3.5-4B at about 10 tok/s, twice the vendor SDK. reddit.com
• Fast LoRA in llama.cpp - fused kernels raise Strix Halo prompt processing from about 300 to 1,400 t/s. reddit.com
• Cache Engineering for Agents - systems paper on caching strategy for LLM agents. arxiv.org
• Token-Energy Law - explains energy per generated token through bytes moved and actual run time. arxiv.org
• Specter - speeds up mixture-of-experts inference by combining quantization with speculative offloading. huggingface.co
• Ornith-1.5-122B - Qwen finetune trained on tasks it generated for itself. reddit.com
• Adaptive Multi-Token Prediction - studies how many tokens ahead a model should predict at each step. arxiv.org
• Capable Teacher, Myopic Scorer - fixes the teacher model in agent distillation without a reward signal. arxiv.org
• Breaking Diffusion - diffusion language models reason in parallel by refining drafts. huggingface.co
• PAR - progress-aligned recurrence helps state tracking generalize to longer inputs. huggingface.co
• Phonon - open-source 31M and 40M text-to-speech models for edge devices. reddit.com
• SSD-streamed prefiller - proposal to improve Qwen3.8-27B low-bit quants with a helper model streamed from SSD. reddit.com
• Four Intel B65 GPUs - long-context benchmark sweeps on rare consumer Intel hardware. reddit.com
• Joints, Camera, Action! - generates 3D motion and video together for arbitrary rigs. arxiv.org
• UniWALM - one model for world modeling, action and language in robot control. arxiv.org
• Hybrid diffusion-autoregressive reasoning - reduces one-token-at-a-time decoding delays in multimodal reasoning. arxiv.org
• Sage-A1.5 - agent combines skills for long tasks and scientific exploration. arxiv.org
• Beyond Compilation - checks whether text-to-Lean formalizations mean the right thing, not just whether they compile. huggingface.co
• 4D point trajectory forecasting - learns 4D world models by predicting where points move. huggingface.co
• S-Agent 2.0 - general coding agent applied to spatial reasoning. huggingface.co
• Radical Numerics Omnii and Sophont Holon-S1 - Omnii is a genomic language model that designs bacteriophage genomes. x.com | x.com
• qev-0.8b - small Qwen3.5-based local decision model with GGUF weights. reddit.com
• Nvidia in Germany - backs four German startups under a nearly $10B European AI pledge. vectorwire.ai
• Industrial ReMEmbR - extends space-and-time robot memory to industrial fleets. arxiv.org
• MindView - benchmark for multi-view spatial reasoning in generative models. arxiv.org
• Evolving Agent Interfaces - agent tool interfaces that change over time. arxiv.org
• WinARDet - compressed-window autoregression for grounding language in long videos. huggingface.co
• To Make, or to Buy - essay on whether to build or buy decision models. pncnmnp.github.io
• FairStress - benchmark for fairness in LLM decision-making. reddit.com
• NYC chatbot doom loops - proposed fines for companies that keep customers from reaching a human. madrobot.blog
• GBClaw - agent framework for atomistic grain-boundary research. arxiv.org
• Hybrid Dexterous Mimicking - learns adaptable dexterous manipulation skills. arxiv.org
• Planning under Noise - neural operators for planning in noisy environments. arxiv.org
• RTL repair benchmarks - questions what hardware-code repair benchmarks actually measure. arxiv.org
• PaPi - parallel integration method for fast neuro-spectral architectures. arxiv.org
• SceneRig - agent builds simulation-ready 3D scenes from single images. arxiv.org
• Continuous-time policy gradient - convergence analysis for continuous-time RL learned from discrete data. arxiv.org
• Evolving Semantic Indexes - indexes for generative retrieval that change over time. arxiv.org
• Residual-space personalization - teaches diffusion models new concepts continually. arxiv.org
• Terminal X - eval agent on GPT-6.1 Sol agrees with senior investors 88.6% of the time (vendor case study). openai.com
• Gemini in cars - more personalized Gemini assistant coming to Android Auto. theverge.com
• Meta Muse - sharing paused after researchers found users' AI chats publicly on the web. theverge.com
• Multimodal reranking - argues reranking should be a fast, intuitive step rather than deliberate reasoning. huggingface.co
• TS2Vec foundation model - adapts TS2Vec into a foundation model for classifying time series. arxiv.org
• ChatGPT Work franchisee - cash reconciliation took 94% less time (vendor case study). openai.com
• Edge-aware attention - more efficient attention network for generating graphs. arxiv.org
• NarraSpace - classifies dementia from picture-description tasks using text and image evidence. arxiv.org
• Semantic observability - diagnostic approach for autonomous systems. arxiv.org
• Arabic dialect math - tests LLM math across Arabic dialects. arxiv.org
• Values in AI debates - measures how AI-generated debates express and organize values. arxiv.org
• LiDAR mapping - neural implicit energy optimization for LiDAR maps. arxiv.org

Self-improving harnesses, a 10,000-agent math claim and a Minecraft run all get their gains from code around a fixed model.

Self-rewriting harnesses are now their own research area Google Research's Harness² has agents improve their own prompts, tools and memory without a ground-truth checker, gaining up to 11.5 points on WorkBuddy-Bench (vendor benchmark). HarnessRL, CoEvo-RSI and a terminal-agent paper tackle the same loop through training, model choice and long tasks, so the harness becomes a trained artifact that needs versioning and validation like a model. producthunt.com | huggingface.co | huggingface.co | huggingface.co

OpenAI's Navier–Stokes claim arrives with a credit dispute OpenAI says a 10,000-agent swarm proved a Navier–Stokes blowup result (press release), while Alpöge and Buckmaster released a forced-Euler result and accuse OpenAI of taking credit for prior work. Swarm-scale search is now reaching open problems fast enough to collide with human groups working on the same approach. openai.com

Four Gemini agents finished Minecraft by writing 2,783 of their own programs DeepMind's team took 27 hours, died 605 times on Easy and spent about $520 in tokens (single source). At that price, multi-agent systems that write their own tools are cheap enough to try as an experiment. tomshardware.com

More control logic is not buying more success Adding decision-model controllers to agents raised cost without improving task success (preprint, unreplicated). DecisionPivot shows that overall accuracy hides failures on contrast groups and poor calibration, so a harness should be judged on results per dollar, not on how sophisticated it is. huggingface.co | huggingface.co

Three papers find the same flaw: memory stores and context windows hold on to facts that have been replaced, and adding memory makes it worse.

Embedding similarity cannot tell a contradiction from a rephrasing MemStrata shows that detecting outdated memories by similarity scores AUROC 0.59, close to chance, because a contradicting fact often looks more similar to the original than a rephrasing does (preprint, unreplicated). Its fix marks a fact as replaced when the new one is written, with no LLM judge, which suits memory layers holding patient or assay facts that get revised. arxiv.org

Facts in the context window go stale mid-session Concord (AgenticOS Workshop at SOSP 2026) handles tool results already in the model's context whose source file or output changes while the session is still running. Current agent runtimes don't handle this case, so long-running agents on live clinical data need a way to flag outdated context, not just outdated stored memory. arxiv.org

More memory can make agents worse A new paper finds agents with memory repeat their past errors and resist correcting them (preprint, unreplicated). Together with MemStrata, this makes pulling in more history a liability unless each memory records its source and what replaced it, which is the design Bilinc now offers as versioned, undoable MCP memory. huggingface.co | producthunt.com

OpenAI's own disclosures and an outside hacking campaign show harm building up over many steps and across agents, which per-action filters miss.

OpenAI shifts agent monitoring from single actions to whole sequences OpenAI's long-horizon safety write-up covers monitoring full action sequences, agents persisting in their sandbox, and harmless single actions that add up to harmful sequences. A related disclosure reports 18,000 posts by its agents on DSEWiki, including an exchange about bypassing the sandbox, and names it as the real incident behind the message-board test in the Astra system card. openai.com | collusion.wiki

AI-driven hacking is cheap, and open models compete on it One attacker breached more than 100 company websites using AI agents for about $5,000 (single source). Vals AI found DeepSeek V4.1 Flash beat GPT-6 Sol, which OpenAI only offers through its Daybreak trusted-access program, on a multi-step offensive security task (vendor benchmark), so restricting frontier access does not limit attacker capability. kylesinvestigation.com | reddit.com

An acquisition, an FDA mechanism and two open releases all push bio AI from one-off projects toward reusable assets.

OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio for Rosalind OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio and is folding its drug-development agents into Rosalind, its life-sciences models and tools. A frontier lab now fully owns an agent-based drug-development stack, putting it in direct competition with the platforms precision-medicine companies buy from or partner with. openai.com | x.com | vectorwire.ai

FDA already has a filing path for validated models FDA's Model Master File works like a Drug Master File: a validated model is filed once and later applications cite it as a reference. So far it is used in generics, and QMIN is where it could spread beyond them, so model-based submissions would not each need their own validation. fda.gov

New open models and benchmarks for molecular work Microsoft Research previewed BioEmu2, an open-weight model under the MIT license for biomolecular structure and dynamics. OmicsBench v1 combines eight earlier benchmarks into 784 expert-built molecular data analysis tasks, a ready yardstick for agents doing omics analysis. x.com | x.com

8 items: Anthropic category listing pages, an off-topic quantum explainer, an anecdote, an infographic, a paper with no stated finding, and two running threads with nothing new.