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  1. [AINews] Claude Tag: Multiplayer, Proactive, Persistent Agents in Slack Claude finally gets a Slackbot upgrade We have covered the Age of Async Agents on the podcast: There has been a wave of companies building their own background agents…

  2. All is in the title - what's the decision process. I guess it's easy if I want to fine tune an email I'll use the cheap one but then this is also a cheap action so it doesn't matter if you pick an expensive model or a cheap one.

  4. Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness TL;DR — Building an agent is mostly plumbing: tools, state, guardrails, scaling from one agent to many. CUGA (pip install cuga), short for Configurable…

  5. model roundup

    Opus 4.8
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    Claude AI has released Opus 4.8, an upgrade to their Opus class of models available in version 2.1.154 of their software on March 16, 2023, which includes enhanced coding and professional task capabilities along with improved judgment and honesty. Users are reporting usage resets following the update.

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    Tool Use
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    Several new AI tools focused on tool use have been released recently, including Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling model, and enhancements to Claude Code for full software development lifecycle management. These tools aim to improve efficiency in coding workflows involving shell commands and multi-step iterations.

  6. I was asking all sorts of questions about some scientific questions; I wanted to learn about stuff like some physics and whatnot. I decided to tell it to write a chapter in a book, and pleasantly, it wrote a lot more than a single answer g…

  7. Doctor and immunologist Derya Unutmaz has been interested in artificial intelligence for years. But his “aha” moment came in late 2025, when GPT‑5 Pro helped him and his lab revisit a three-year-old puzzle centered on a special type of imm…

  8. tl;dr Have you ever needed to run the same prompt, but in multiple subdirectories to make a similar change? I built an MCP server that indexes all your repos, lets you query them, makes batch PRs, and gives you a summary of workflow runs.

  9. A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this paper, we propose an approach for approximating the behavior of components of deep…

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    Glm
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    Recent developments in the AI space highlight significant advancements from Chinese companies, particularly Zai's upgrade of GLM-5.1, which has shown substantial improvements. Meanwhile, there are concerns about a widespread intelligence drop across various models and discussions around the potential openness of leading AI projects like GLM 5.1.

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    Anthropic Mythos
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    Anthropic's new update, Claude Mythos, has garnered attention from top AI security researchers like Carlini, who found numerous bugs. The update is noted for its speed and effectiveness, with Anthropic identifying a significant security flaw in FFmpeg and quickly submitting patches.

  11. I know this is not a very common issue, but I do know that the people that have to deal with a bunch of feedback can find it hard to keep up while doing their work as well I'm not talking about answering and having actual conversations. I…

  12. 21st June 2026 - Link Blog Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents (via) The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone…

  13. Hi HN, I'm Daniel, part of the team at Agnes AI, a Singapore-based AI lab. We've been building quietly for a while and I wanted to share what we've made with this community and get honest feedback from people who actually build things.

  14. ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex available to all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience (DX) employees worldwide Samsung’s global deployment is one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise launches ever Samsung Electronics to…

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    Cowork
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    Issues with Claude Cowork have been reported, including errors and disruptions for some users on April 16, 2026. Additionally, Google has developed its own desktop Agent to compete with Cowork, while users continue to explore alternatives and troubleshoot bugs in the platform.

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    Swe Bench
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    Recent updates in the SWE-Bench Pro benchmark show significant performance improvements across various AI models, with GPT-5.5 topping the leaderboard and Opus 4.7 making notable gains, while Claude experienced a temporary drop just before the release of Opus 4.8.

  16. Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on reasoning tasks, but whether this reflects faithful logical inference or heuristic approximation remains unclear. We study this question in legal entailment by comparing three para…

  17. Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government Anthropic’s standoff with Washington has already raised new questions about AI safety and sovereignty—and about Chinese competition. This story originally appeared in T…

  19. Grok Build 0.1 0616 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis Model summary IntelligenceUpdated Speed Price Cache Hit Price Verbosity Grok Build 0.1 0616 is amongst the leading models in intelligence and well priced when comparing to othe…

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    Security
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    OpenAI has released GPT-5.4-Cyber for testing as part of its Trusted Access for Cyber Defense program, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude Mythos in the cybersecurity domain. Meanwhile, concerns are rising over the potential risks associated with advanced AI models like Mythos, prompting calls for improved defenses before wider releases.

  21. Coding agents have become a major mode of software engineering, but the benchmarks we use to compare them were designed in a pre-agent era: they collapse model, harness, and environment into a single end-to-end score, typically computed ag…

  22. Skip to main content Research Products Business Developers Company Foundation(opens in a new window) Log inTry ChatGPT(opens in a new window) Research Products Business Developers Company Foundation(opens in a new window) Codex-maxxing for…

  23. We propose agentic automata learning to evaluate the extent to which tool-calling LLM agents can uncover hidden environments through interaction. In our setup, an agent should uncover a hidden deterministic finite automaton (DFA) by intera…

  24. Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s controversial Sam Altman biopic, which is poised for an awards run next year, has been dropped by its distributor, Amazon. In a statement first reported by Puck, Amazon said that it believes “that Artificial w…

  25. MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret? TL;DR Deep research agents increasingly combine private local documents with external tools like web retrieval, creating a privacy risk: an agent's external queries may leak sensitive inf…

  26. Agent systems are advancing quickly across domains, but their evaluation remains fragmented. Most benchmarks rely on fixed, LLM-centric harnesses that require heavy integration, create test-production mismatch, and limit fair comparison ac…

  27. I was having a long conversation with Claude about building a personal brand, travel prep, and diet/fasting. Every few messages, Claude would interrupt with "I want to be honest with you" followed by questions about my mental health, recom…