OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says chain-of-thought monitoring — watching models write out their reasoning to catch misalignment — is becoming unreliable, and no lab is ready to scale safely.
Yahoo is rolling out AI answer engine Scout this year, using Anthropic’s Claude and Bing to win back Gen Z users.
Nvidia is shelling out $6 billion to license Poolside's Model Factory and scoop up 109 employees who worked on the Laguna model — while Poolside keeps its independence.
DeepSeek's first Agent product, Harness, is out on npm — a build-it-yourself agent toolkit that goes beyond coding to handle multi-agent workflows, skills, and web search.
RuntimeWire found that Kimi Work automatically attaches your five most recently updated agent sessions to every feedback submission — without showing them or asking permission.
RuntimeWire found that Kimi Work automatically attaches your five most recently updated agent sessions to every feedback submission — without showing them or asking permission.
Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy OpenRouter for nearly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal — a massive jump from the AI aggregator's $1.3 billion valuation just two months ago.
DeepSeek open-sourced Harness and revealed the Cordis design paper, explaining how making every component — including the agent loop — a swappable plugin paves the way toward recursive self-improvement.
An OpenAI product lead showed developers how to swap GPT into Claude Code's harness. One user got banned for it, and the aftermath turned into a very public — and very petty — cross-company spat.
Herdr, a tmux-like tool built for managing coding agents, has joined Y Combinator's F26 batch. The solo-developed open-source project racked up 25K GitHub stars and 340K downloads in four months.
