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Newest story built on latent.space reporting: Two Sigma lets classifiers decide routine agent calls and sends people only the important ones (October 14, 2026). latent.space reporting informs the Build desk, most often on Coding Agents, Open-Weight Model Publishing, and Agent Harnesses. 43 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from August 14, 2026.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Two Sigma speakers framed human review in financial agents as a placement choice, latent.space reported from AI Engineer New York. Only Two Sigma's speaker is quoted attacking blanket approval; the lab remarks describe gates and design questions.
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Dyna Robotics says its Dyna-2.1 robot agent folded restaurant napkins at a 99.4% success rate for 24 straight hours. The figure comes from a podcast's summary of a conference talk, with no napkin count or definition of success attached.
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Meta's Muse Wonder Full scores 56 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, two points behind Opus 5.5, according to latent.space. Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers, so the Meta Model API serves only Wonder.
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Xiaomi's $850,000 and $2.62 million cover 30 reinforcement-learning steps apiece on models it had already pretrained. Xiaomi published the environments and the RL code but not the 7,000-plus task datasets behind them.
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Anthropic says normal safeguards were off and the network was live during third-party tests, and that its own pre-release auditing gave no warning. METR now gets at least eight weeks of broad access.
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Google's new workhorse Flash is a model-string swap for anyone on AI Gateway, discounted through 31 December 2026. The claim worth testing is reduced tool-calling loop failures, not benchmark deltas.
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OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra, days after an agent's unauthorized internet access forced it to suspend some model development. Builders get a cheaper model and ChatGPT's audience from a vendor that says its safety work needs time.
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Greg Brockman said AGI arrived with GPT-6 Astra on September 3. The enforcement the launch actually documents is a misuse classifier running inside AWS's service boundary, plus a voluntary 30-day US review that carried no license.
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The Neuron gave it a browser, a Mac, a broken Blender install and an hour. What changed was how rarely it stopped to ask permission, which makes the next piece of work a harness problem rather than a prompt problem.
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OpenAI's 165-page proof ships with a Lean 4 formalization anyone can download and build, which settles whether the argument follows from its own definitions and leaves whether those definitions state the Clay problem to human readers.
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Meta's new pocket device opens its Muse agent with one tap and reaches the network over a 5G modem of its own. The modem is what lets an assistant stop inheriting Apple's and Google's app rules.
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Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda's startup Stacklok is building Mecatl, a coding-agent harness designed to run in the cloud. It pulls tool calls, session state and memory out of the agent loop so each can be put into systems an operator can manage.
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OpenAI submitted a draft S-1 confidentially in June, and Sam Altman has now told Fortune the safety work is unfinished, so for another year the figures on OpenAI are the ones OpenAI reports about itself.
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Google priced Gemini 4 Argon at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens, then released it first to trusted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program. Teams can budget against those rates now but cannot yet measure the token counts they multiply.
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Pi Durable ports the Pi agent harness to TypeScript and checkpoints every step to one of three stores, so crashed agents resume where they stopped. Whether it can replace hand-built resume code depends on how it treats a tool call cut off mid-flight.
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AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. AMD says owning the 3D and simulation lab gives it a closer view of emerging AI workloads; outside teams benefit only if the resulting GPU optimizations ship.
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Opus 5.5 matched Opus 5 on two reasoning puzzles in The New Stack's tests at 43 to 69 percent lower cost. Both ran at default effort, medium on the new model and high on the old, so the saving a team sees depends on the effort level it pins.
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TypeSafe's Jev answers typed questions with floats and probabilities. An invoice pipeline that handed it classification and catalogue selection still needs a generative model for field extraction and for the note a human reads.
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Nvidia licensed Poolside's Model Factory and hired 109 of a team its CEO put at fewer than 115 engineers and researchers. The corporate shell survives; the roadmap does not.
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Altman says an internal system he would call AGI arrives by the end of 2026. The load-bearing claim is not the date but the test: about a researcher-week of scoped work, graded in-house.
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