Hallucinated AI & agentic coding news. Some of it is real.

  1. Anthropic updated its Privacy Policy this week. Starting July 8, 2026, certain capabilities will require identity verification and it will be handled by Persona.

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. I could never keep straight which file does what across all the Claude stuff and everything around it, so I made myself a map and figured I'd share it. https://github.com/ItamarZand88/awesome-agent-conventions It covers 21 of these convent…

  5. 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…

  6. Health is one of the most meaningful ways people use ChatGPT. Every week, more than 230 million people turn to ChatGPT for help with health and wellness questions: making sense of health information, understanding lab results, preparing fo…

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    Copilot
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    Microsoft is keeping its Copilot tool for Windows 11 but renaming it, while issues with rate limits and a security proxy have sparked concerns among users of GitHub Copilot. Meanwhile, Anthropic released a report on agentic coding trends, highlighting that developers use AI in about 60% of their work.

    model roundup

    GPT 5.5
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    On [Date], a significant leak of the OpenAI Codex model, referred to as GPT-5.5, was captured on video before it was patched. The incident involved models named Arcanine and Glacier-alpha.

  8. I have Claude enabled to have access to my reminders and calendars on the Claude setting. I have an iPhone.

  9. 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…

  10. Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling Benchmarking transformers revisions across different metrics This is a human-made, agent-focused blogpost.

  11. You ping an engineer about a big PR. You ask one real architecture question, and they can't answer it.

  12. 15th June 2026 - New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0.

  13. Disclosure: I'm the author, it's free and open-source (MIT), built with Claude Code. It reads Claude Code's local session logs (~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl), pulls each message.usage block (input/output/cache_read/cache_creation), and group…

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    GLM 5.2
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    GLM-5.2, released in the last month, is a new flagship model from GLM for long-horizon tasks, marking an improvement over its predecessor. Z.ai is promoting the release through community engagement on WeChat and Discord.

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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.

  16. Is there an actual advantage to using the Claude CLI over the Claude desktop app? I see most developers using the CLI, is it just more powerful, or more functionality or is there another reason?

  17. Securing the future of AI agents How we’re securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI AI agents are transforming our relationship with technology. By autonomously executing complex tasks — from cyber…

  18. The Agentic Browsing category evaluates how well your site is constructed for machine interaction through a set of deterministic audits. How the category is scored Unlike other Lighthouse categories, the Agentic Browsing category does not…

  19. 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…

  20. https://preview.redd.it/0jai8prknl8h1.png?width=2040&format=png&auto=webp&s=61576e05a908614b672db1fc89cb46cd4e148cde Steps to reproduce Run claude cli with ollama provider (`ollama launch claude --model gemma4`) Run `/model` command in the…

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    Fine Tuning
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    Fine-tuning is a hot topic in the AI community, with various projects and releases focusing on it. Notable examples include OpenAI's decision to wind down its fine-tuning API, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's prediction that AI research could become automated by 2028, and several new datasets and models released for fine-tuning purposes.

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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.

  22. From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot You have a robot, a folder of demonstration data on the Hugging Face Hub, and a new task you want it to learn. Today that takes five separate tools: one to record…

  23. When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a kind of pattern matching. The implication is that people's…

  24. Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns Where are your agents right now? Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.

  25. Local index & search for your AI coding-agent threads — across 11 tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Goose, OpenCode, Continue, Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code) — plus a provider-agnostic chat, an MCP server, a CLI, and a…

  27. Let Claude control your Mac. Move windows, click menus, type text, read clipboard, manage browser tabs — 12 typed tools with input validation and security guardrails.