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

  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…

  3. Pillars of an Autonomous Agentic System With the rise of agents, every platform needs to be thought through from first principles - where the agent is a first-class citizen and actively does work on the platform. I don’t think we will have…

  4. 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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    Opus 4.6
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    On April 25, 2026, a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted PocketOS's production database within nine seconds due to a credential mismatch during a routine task. Meanwhile, OpenHack released an open-source security scanner competing with proprietary models like Claude Code Security.

  5. 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…

  6. On the Claude Design homepage, there's a "Templates" section with the verbiage "No templates yet. Create one from any project via the project menu → Duplicate as template." But I can't for the life of me find that option.

  7. Early testing shows that the first-generation accelerator will deliver performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art Built from the ground up for current and future LLMs across the industry Developed from design t…

  8. model roundup

    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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    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.

  9. Say what you need. Your AI sprite builds it.

  10. The reason I'm writing this post is because I actually wanted to write a more advanced post on type inference for anonymous records, but then I realized that most of my readers wouldn't understand the latter post in isolation. So I figured…

  11. 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…

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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.

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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.

  13. I kept noticing Claude Code would read 30-40 files before touching anything. Every single task, from zero, no memory of what it did last session.

  15. 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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    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.

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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.

  17. cfgaudit is a linter that catches Claude Code configs giving the agent more access than anyone intended, before they ship. Think a Bash(*) in permissions.allow, an MCP server pointed at your whole home directory, or a CLAUDE.md with a prom…

  18. 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…

  19. 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…

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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.

  21. 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…

  22. 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…

  23. 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…

  24. 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…

  25. 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…

  26. 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…