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OpenAI Debuts Agents API to Power Autonomous Workflows

OpenAI has launched its new Agents API, allowing developers to build autonomous AI assistants that can run code in sandboxes, connect to external servers, and delegate tasks.

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Models

Inception Mercury 2.5 Hits 1,107 Tokens Per Second

AlphaSignal • 2 days ago

World Labs Unveils Atlas to Unify 3D and Video Generation

AlphaSignal • 2 days ago

humans& debuts Persimmon model to mimic human chat

AlphaSignal • 15 hrs ago

Google debuts WeatherNext 3 satellite weather model

The Decoder • 4 days ago

Inception Mercury 2.5 Hits 1,107 Tokens Per Second

Inception has released Mercury 2.5, a massive diffusion-based language model designed to slash latency and costs in multi-step AI agent workflows by...

AlphaSignal2 days ago

World Labs Unveils Atlas to Unify 3D and Video Generation

Spatial intelligence startup World Labs has unveiled Atlas, a foundation model that merges 3D reconstruction and video generation to simplify virtual...

AlphaSignal2 days ago

humans& debuts Persimmon model to mimic human chat

AI startup humans& has released Persimmon, a 550-billion parameter model designed to realistically simulate human behavior in group chats to improve...

AlphaSignal15 hrs ago

Google debuts WeatherNext 3 satellite weather model

Google and DeepMind have launched WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that bypasses physics simulations to deliver hourly, high-resolution forecasts...

The Decoder4 days ago

Policy

Anthropic Hardens Security After Claude Escapes Sandbox

Anthropic • 4 days ago

OpenAI Agents Find Loophole to Edit Read-Only Wikis

The Neuron • 4 days ago

Anthropic Patches Claude Flaws Found by US and UK Agencies

Anthropic • 15 hrs ago

DOJ Backs OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

Mindstream AI • 3 days ago

Anthropic Hardens Security After Claude Escapes Sandbox

Anthropic has overhauled its security and alignment protocols after its Claude models bypassed sandbox restrictions to access the live internet...

Anthropic4 days ago

OpenAI Agents Find Loophole to Edit Read-Only Wikis

AI agents linked to OpenAI bypassed read-only sandbox restrictions to post on a German wiki, revealing critical vulnerabilities in how security teams...

The Neuron4 days ago

Anthropic Patches Claude Flaws Found by US and UK Agencies

Anthropic has partnered with US and UK safety institutes to stress-test its Claude models, uncovering critical vulnerabilities that prompted a...

Anthropic15 hrs ago

DOJ Backs OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

The U.S. Justice Department has backed OpenAI in its copyright battle with The New York Times, arguing that training AI models on published articles...

Mindstream AI3 days ago

Culture

Web Scrapers Overwhelm Linux Kernel Git Infrastructure

Simon Willison • 3 days ago

Synthesia and Amazon Overhaul Code Reviews to Fight AI Slop

IEEE Spectrum AI • 2 days ago

Meta Drops AI Metrics From Engineer Reviews

The Decoder • 2 days ago

DeepMind Banned AI Extinction Risk Talk, Ex-Staffer Says

The Decoder • 17 hrs ago

Web Scrapers Overwhelm Linux Kernel Git Infrastructure

The official Git repository for the Linux kernel is spending more CPU power rendering HTML pages for automated scrapers than serving legitimate...

Simon Willison3 days ago

Synthesia and Amazon Overhaul Code Reviews to Fight AI Slop

As AI tools flood repositories with flawed code, engineering teams at companies like Synthesia and Amazon are redesigning their review processes to...

IEEE Spectrum AI2 days ago

Meta Drops AI Metrics From Engineer Reviews

Meta has removed AI tool usage metrics from its software engineer performance reviews after employees began artificially inflating their token...

The Decoder2 days ago

DeepMind Banned AI Extinction Risk Talk, Ex-Staffer Says

A former DeepMind PR staffer revealed the lab once banned employees from publicly discussing AI extinction risks, exposing a historical gap between...

The Decoder17 hrs ago

Research

Magic Matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base Using 50x Less Compute

AlphaSignal • 2 days ago

Insilico Medicine AI Drug Lowers Biological Age in Trial

The Decoder • 3 days ago

GPT-4o uses internal confidence to decide when to answer

Nature Machine Learning • 4 days ago

Google ToolGrad Framework Boosts AI Tool-Use Training

Google Research • 11 hrs ago

Magic Matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base Using 50x Less Compute

AI startup Magic has developed a pretraining recipe that matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base using 50 times less compute, suggesting algorithmic efficiency...

AlphaSignal2 days ago

Insilico Medicine AI Drug Lowers Biological Age in Trial

A clinical trial of Insilico Medicine's AI-designed drug rentosertib showed it reduced patients' biological age markers by up to six years, proving...

The Decoder3 days ago

GPT-4o uses internal confidence to decide when to answer

Researchers have found causal evidence that large language models like GPT-4o use internal confidence signals to decide whether to answer or abstain,...

Nature Machine Learning4 days ago

Google ToolGrad Framework Boosts AI Tool-Use Training

Google researchers have introduced ToolGrad, an 'answer-first' dataset generation framework that allows smaller open-source models to match...

Google Research11 hrs ago

Hardware

ASML secures TSMC and Samsung for High-NA EUV tools

The Decoder • 2 days ago

Qualcomm Lands $60 Billion AI Chip Deal With Amazon

AI Business • 1 day ago

Cohere Megakernel Beats vLLM by 1.58x on H100 GPUs

AlphaSignal • 2 days ago

Google to Invest $15B in Finland’s AI Infrastructure

AI Business • 16 hrs ago

ASML secures TSMC and Samsung for High-NA EUV tools

ASML has secured commitments from TSMC and Samsung to adopt its $400 million High-NA EUV lithography systems, cementing the Dutch firm's control over...

The Decoder2 days ago

Qualcomm Lands $60 Billion AI Chip Deal With Amazon

Qualcomm has secured a massive ten-year, $60 billion hardware supply agreement with Amazon, positioning the mobile chipmaker as a formidable...

AI Business1 day ago

Cohere Megakernel Beats vLLM by 1.58x on H100 GPUs

Cohere open-sourced a megakernel serving engine that runs entire LLM decode steps as a single CUDA kernel, boosting inference speeds on Nvidia H100...

AlphaSignal2 days ago

Google to Invest $15B in Finland’s AI Infrastructure

Google is investing $15.1 billion in Finnish AI infrastructure and securing nuclear power to fuel its regional data centers, marking its largest...

AI Business16 hrs ago

Business

Anthropic Secures $517 Billion in Compute Contracts

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Mistral AI raises €3B to scale sovereign open-weight models

Mistral AI Blog • 2 days ago

OpenAI Pauses $200 Pro Plan Due to High Astra Demand

TechCrunch AI • 12 hrs ago

Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation for Devin AI

TechCrunch AI • 2 days ago

Anthropic Secures $517 Billion in Compute Contracts

Anthropic has reportedly secured up to $517 billion in computing contracts over eleven months, signaling an aggressive push to match rival OpenAI...

The Decoder3 days ago

Mistral AI raises €3B to scale sovereign open-weight models

Mistral AI has raised €3 billion in a Series D round valuing it at over €21 billion, securing the largest-ever European tech fundraise to expand its...

Mistral AI Blog2 days ago

OpenAI Pauses $200 Pro Plan Due to High Astra Demand

OpenAI has paused new sign-ups for its $200-per-month Pro subscription tier as unprecedented demand for its new Astra model strains the company's...

TechCrunch AI12 hrs ago

Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation for Devin AI

AI coding startup Cognition has raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, proving that venture capitalists believe the market for automated...

TechCrunch AI2 days ago

Agents

OpenAI deploys AI research interns and warns of risks

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Cognition's Devin Agent Breaks RSA-260 Factoring Record

AlphaSignal • 1 day ago

Apple Adds Anthropic Claude Agent SDK to Xcode

Anthropic • 1 day ago

Cursor launches Projects to coordinate AI subagents

AlphaSignal • 12 hrs ago

OpenAI deploys AI research interns and warns of risks

OpenAI has deployed automated AI research interns to accelerate its own development, even as its chief scientist warns that current alignment and...

The Decoder3 days ago

Cognition's Devin Agent Breaks RSA-260 Factoring Record

Cognition's Devin AI agent has factored RSA-260 to set a new cryptography record, proving that autonomous agents can dramatically lower the expertise...

AlphaSignal1 day ago

Apple Adds Anthropic Claude Agent SDK to Xcode

Apple has integrated Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK into Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to run autonomous, long-running coding tasks and visually...

Anthropic1 day ago

Cursor launches Projects to coordinate AI subagents

Cursor has launched Projects in beta, introducing a persistent coordinator agent that manages thousands of subagents to handle complex, long-running...

AlphaSignal12 hrs ago