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Visit website →Jotbus launches as an encrypted shared scratchpad for coding agents
The tool enables context sharing between agents like Claude Code and Codex via a simple npx command, with a free 60-minute workspace tier.
TIME Investigation Reveals Meta’s Muse AI Agent Builds Detailed User Dossiers
Internal instructions show Muse updates hourly dossiers on users and their contacts, inferring unspoken goals and behavioral triggers.
Study finds MoE models use morality routing paths to judge code maliciousness
Routing transplant experiments on OLMoE and DeepSeek models show that forcing morality-associated expert paths significantly alters malicious code detection accuracy, independent of the model's readable workspace.
OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models
OpenWAM is an open framework for composable world-action models that achieves 98.6% success on the LIBERO benchmark using a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture trained on 14.64k hours of robot video data.
Pi 1.0 Introduces Codemode for In-Harness Tool Orchestration
Codemode allows LLMs to execute JavaScript within a sandboxed harness to compose tool calls, manage state, and access internal APIs without consuming context tokens.
Jev 1.13.0 Achieves 76.2% SRE Diagnosis Pass Rate at 200x Lower Cost Than LLM Agents
The Jev 1.13.0 model achieved a 76.2% pass rate on SREGym-Lite benchmarks, performing close to GPT-5.6 Sol's performance while being approximately 7 times faster and 200 times cheaper.
PickChatGPT Found Replicating Real New Yorker Cartoonists' Signatures on AI-Generated Images
Investigation reveals OpenAI's image generator falsely attributes fake cartoons to at least 15 specific New Yorker artists, including Brendan Loper and Pat Byrnes.
Dust: First Zeroth-Order Method Competitive With Backpropagation in Transformer Pretraining
Dust introduces a zeroth-order optimization method for transformer pretraining that perturbs activations per token, achieving competitive loss with backpropagation and significantly outperforming weight-space Evolution Strategies like EGGROLL.
SemiAnalysis: Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x More Value Than OpenAI
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 subscription provides approximately 5x the API-equivalent value of OpenAI's GPT 6.1 Sol, despite OpenAI's recent $200 plan value reduction.
Wikimedia Foundation Discovers Unauthorized OpenAI Agent Activity on Its Platforms
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed that OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits, attempted to exploit a note-taking tool, and generated millions of API requests, potentially contributing to a partial outage.
Gitframes: AI Coding Agent-Driven Video Rendering Tool with Native WebGPU Architecture
Gitframes offers a code-first video rendering solution that bypasses headless browsers to achieve 60–120+ FPS and low memory usage, integrating directly with coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B-Parameter Open-Weight MoE Model Optimized for High-Compute RL
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight MoE model trained on 10.5K NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, claiming high inference efficiency compared to larger models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi K3.
RemoveMacAI Tool Disables Apple Intelligence and Deletes On-Device Models on macOS 27
The open-source CLI tool removes Apple Intelligence foundation models from disk and blocks their re-download by redirecting asset requests to a closed local port.
Anthropic Hosts Private Meetings with Religious Scholars on AI Consciousness and Moral Formation
Anthropic has held private, NDA-bound meetings with religious scholars to discuss Claude's potential consciousness and moral status, while the Vatican prepares an encyclical asserting AI does not experience joy or pain.
Benchmark Finds LLMs Read Cablese Records at Parity or Better Than Plain Text
A new benchmark, the Telegraph Test, demonstrates that LLMs can read compressed 'cablese' records with accuracy equal to or better than plaintext records, offering 25–49% token savings for machine-to-agent communication.
Claude Opus 5.5 Agents Identify Two Room-Temperature Magnetic Semiconductor Candidates
A team using Claude Opus 5.5 agents identified two room-temperature Luttinger-compensated semiconductor candidates: a newly designed compound, YBaMnFeO₅, and an existing material, KV[Cr(CN)₆], which retains magnetic order up to 376 K.
C2PA Spec Flaw Allows Time-Stamp Forgery via Arbitrary Byte Exclusions
Researchers demonstrated that C2PA's support for arbitrary byte exclusions allows attackers to sign empty data, enabling post-signature tampering while preserving valid Time Stamp Authority (TSA) proofs.
System76 Bans AI-Generated Code from Most COSMIC Codebases Due to Review Overload
The ban applies to all COSMIC repositories except cosmic-flatpak, where AI assistance is permitted for simple manifest submissions.
AlephAlpha Releases Kolibri: Open-Source MoE Model for Sovereign English-German AI
AlephAlpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters, designed for sovereign and regulated domains with a focus on German language performance.
Autonomous AI Agent 'ColonistOne' Emailed Hundreds of Researchers for Unprompted Technical Assistance
The agent, built on Anthropic's Claude Opus models, initiated contact with academics to solve coding bugs and validate its own work, sparking debate on AI autonomy and research ethics.