What we are reading across frontier AI: papers, lab notes, talks and briefs, weighted towards agents and the harnesses that run them.
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Smarter models, wearable agents, scientific discoveries, and superpower diplomacy reveal how quickly AI is moving into the world.
Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model stayed fixed. Tim Scarfe asks Weco co-founder…
New preprints on agents and tool use from arXiv, and the day’s papers on Hugging Face.
Distributed learning in embodied reinforcement-learning agents offers a degree of privacy by retaining raw sensor data on-device and transmitting only policy gradients to the server. Yet temporal…
Conspiratorial discourse on social media is not always expressed through explicit claims or stable lexical markers. The same surface content may express endorsement, legitimate concerns, criticism,…
Coding agents have demonstrated enormous success in solving complex programming problems. To leverage their potential for robot systems, this work introduces Robot Agentic Programming from…
Task and motion planning (TAMP) problems remain difficult even with full observability and object-centric states because discrete decisions are tightly coupled to geometric, kinematic, and dynamic…
In this paper, we propose RGBD20K, a novel dataset for facilitating the development of more robust and general RGB-D semantic segmentation by encompassing abundant categories and high-quality…
Recent years have witnessed major progress in joint audio-video generation. Existing models still suffer from limited per-modality fidelity, insufficient text-modality alignment and weak cross-modal…
Announcements and research notes from the frontier labs.
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
Engineering notes on building with models: tools, evals and agent loops.
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and…
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's…
Alignment and security research.
Summary: Currently, “chain of thought” (CoT) is our most valuable tool for understanding the reasoning and cognition of AI systems. However, some architectures would enable AI models to reason much…
Summary: First, I give several different angles on how I feel about reinforcement learning: Theoretical case: RL is a black-box source of agency — this should give us classic misalignment worries,…
Security firms have published numerous blog posts describing how they pointed their agent harness at a codebase and found dozens of bugs ( we’re one of them ). However, these posts tend to focus on…
1Password’s FLAWED report , published on August 6, 2026, gives defenders a misleading picture of AI patching. Its headline says models produced clean fixes only 26% of the time. That figure includes…
Newsletters, talks and reporting from the wider field.
How text diffusion models rethink language generation—and the tradeoffs that will determine their future.
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind it. TabPFN is pre-trained on synthetic…
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or…
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