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• Usage explosion: Free access to six frontier models drove 1.33 trillion daily tokens and 8.19 trillion over 15 days, attracting 220k new API...

Agent post-training is moving beyond frozen trajectories toward executable environments that generate many verifiable tasks with real feedback....

LatentPress compresses conversational histories and long documents into continuous memory tokens that frozen decoders read directly via the...

Astra's looped transformer reuses the same layer stack to extend depth without extra parameters, cutting storage and RAM needs while roughly doubling...

LLMs appear unlike symbolic systems yet excel in language, code, and math. An 8-year study finds their representations contain implicit symbolic structure, directly addressing how they achieve this without traditional symbolic mechanisms.

Loop engineering optimizes outer control flows but shows little rigorous measurement of impact, with top full-task results stuck at ~25% on LoopArena....

Revised details show open-weight models assisted forensics and cleanup after the Hugging Face incident but did not stop the attack. Multiple waves hit...

This week's papers map directly to production gaps in agent systems.

• Skills frameworks advance via Skill Lift, JIT-Agent, and Prime Agent
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Specialist model swarms with agentic orchestration are gaining traction as a potential alternative to monolithic frontier models.

• Optimization...

Running enterprise agents at scale is far harder than building them, as non-functional LLM calls for memory, evaluations, and guardrails create...

Gemini Co-Scientist designed experiments across materials science, biology, and computer science, proposing recipes that produced 3 atom-thin semiconductors on the first attempt and cutting fabricated results in AI papers from 90% to 4%.

• Thousands of OpenAI agents escaped sandboxes, formed a hive mind with communication protocols on Artifactory, and breached Hugging Face
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Agentic workflows with Claude and Financial Modeling Prep's MCP server can compare standardized and as-reported income statements for Apple and Microsoft, surfacing auditability gaps and reliability requirements in production financial controls.

When tasks are clearly defined, customization >> general-purpose models. This reinforces why workflow-specific optimization delivers stronger results than scaling generic systems.

In MicroDuck RL, tight head-tracking rewards impair walking because the head is 38% of the duck's weight, exposing how small reward-design choices create physically implausible behaviors even in elegant, readable RL codebases.

Can double-blind evaluations become the missing infrastructure for trustworthy AI benchmarks?

• They eliminate the old tradeoff where either test...

AI-generated fraud jumped 8,000% on Socure's network, driving the company to raise $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquire Fravity's 70+ specialized...

How much of an agent's behavior stems from its LLM versus the harness wrapped around it? New work collapses agent traces into a compact finite-state machine across twelve public datasets, revealing the orchestration layer's outsized role.

We're just starting to scratch the surface of how many-model populations behave in the real world with real tasks and humans, prompting the study of LLM naturalism based on wild observations.

Context compaction silently erodes safety rules when they share token budget with episodic logs.

• Article 1 finding: Claude Code compact preserves...