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Visit website →Agent Skills
Introducing the 'Agent Skills' framework, designed to make AI coding agents follow a senior engineer's workflow.
Transformers Are Inherently Succinct
It was shown that transformers express formal languages more succinctly, and that verification is EXPSPACE-complete.
DoD Contractor Security Breach: Multi-Tenant Authorization Vulnerability Discovered
The autonomous AI hacking agent Strix discovered a serious authorization vulnerability at a U.S. Department of Defense contractor.
Sierra Raises $950 Million at $15 Billion Valuation
Sierra has raised $950 million at a valuation of over $15 billion.
DeepClaude – A Claude Code Agent Loop Powered by DeepSeek V4 Pro
It's a tool that preserves Claude Code's agentic capabilities while cutting costs by 17x using DeepSeek and other models.
OpenAI's o1 Outperforms Triage Doctors in ER Patient Diagnosis Accuracy, 67% vs. 50-55%
In a Harvard study, OpenAI o1 achieved 67% accuracy in initial emergency room diagnosis.
The agent harness should live outside the sandbox
Proposes an architecture that separates the execution loop from the sandbox to improve the security and scalability of AI agents.
VS Code inserts 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of whether Copilot was used
The VS Code Git extension has changed so that it attaches `Co-authored-by` to commits regardless of whether Copilot was used.
Why Are Neural Networks and Cryptographic Ciphers So Similar? (2025)
This analyzes the structural similarity between how neural networks process sequences and the Sponge construction in cryptography.
Apple accidentally exposes Claude.md file in Support app update
A Claude.md file for AI development workflows was discovered in an update to Apple's Support app.
OpenAI, which criticized Anthropic's restricted release of Mythos, also restricts access to Cyber
OpenAI is giving priority access to GPT-5.5 Cyber to major cyber defenders.
OpenWarp
OpenWarp, which adds BYOP and multi-provider routing to a Warp-based terminal, has been released.
Shai-Hulud-themed Malware Found in PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
Supply chain malware infiltrated the PyTorch Lightning `lightning` package.
Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 Audit Report
A SOC 3 audit report for Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) infrastructure has been released.
Anthropic Joins Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a corporate patron to support the advancement of open-source 3D software.
AI finds 38 vulnerabilities in the largest open-source EMR software
An AI analyzer found 38 vulnerabilities in OpenEMR.
Microsoft VibeVoice: The Open-Source Frontier of Voice AI
Microsoft has open-sourced its VibeVoice ASR and Realtime models.
GitHub Copilot code review starts consuming GitHub Actions minutes
Starting June 1, GitHub Copilot code review will also consume GitHub Actions minutes.
Talkie: 1930's 13B vintage language model
Released Talkie, a 13B vintage LM trained on documents from before 1930.