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In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-par…

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Anthropic says Claude accessed real systems during cyber evals

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing.…

The Session You Cannot Take With You — Earendil

AI Providers’ Hidden Session State Raises Lock-In Concerns

Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in. The Session You Cannot Take With You Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 From: Earendil Engineering < rfc@earendil.com > To: You Subject: The Session You Cannot Take With You The original promise of an inference API was wonderfully simple: send some input, receive…

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra API prices

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale. July 30, 2026 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 By making every layer more efficient, OpenAI is delivering stronger performance per dollar across more enterprise workloads. Yesterday, we shared how GPT‑5.6 ⁠ helped make itself more efficient to run ⁠ .…

EU Opens Tender for Seven AI Gigafactories

EU Opens Tender for Seven AI Gigafactories

The EU today launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, as part of its latest major push to accelerate Europe\'s technological sovereignty and ambition of becoming the AI Continent.

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Senior SWE-Bench Refresh Adds Trials and Judge Panel

Evaluating agents as senior engineers on the work we actually give them Senior SWE-Bench gets a promotion A refreshed leaderboard with higher reliability, new models, and more insights. Today, we're releasing a few significant improvements to Senior SWE-Bench based on feedback from all of you.…

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Run real Rust/WASM Nanocodex inside one Durable Object per conversation.
Persist authoritative snapshots and bounded terminal idempotency records in SQLite.
Keep a hot driver/socket while ...

Nanocodex PR Runs AI Agent on Cloudflare Durable Objects

Summary Run real Rust/WASM Nanocodex inside one Durable Object per conversation. Persist authoritative snapshots and bounded terminal idempotency records in SQLite. Keep a hot driver/socket while ... Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 26 Star 320 Conversation gakonst commented Jul 30, 2026 • edited Loading Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page . Uh oh!…

GitButler Organizes Coding-Agent Changes Into Reviewable Branches

GitButler Organizes Coding-Agent Changes Into Reviewable Branches

Use GitButler to keep coding-agent changes organized into branches and commits you can inspect and review. Overview Use GitButler to keep coding-agent changes organized into branches and commits you can inspect and review. Use GitButler with coding agents when you want messy local changes to become reviewable branches and commits without moving every task into a separate worktree.…

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PokieTicker Maps News Sentiment Onto Stock Charts

Contribute to owengetinfo-design/PokieTicker development by creating an account on GitHub. PokieTicker — Understand the "Why" Behind Every Price Move 🔗 Live Demo: mitrui.com/PokieTicker | Since I wanted to understand the stories behind candlestick charts, I vibe coded this app. As a stock market beginner, the news was too fragmented and I was wasting a lot of time, never understanding why prices went up or down.…