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Autonomous and semi-autonomous LLM agents executing multi-step tasks with tools and long-running sessions.
Google released Deep Review publicly on October 14, extending an agentic verifier tested on more than 16,000 manuscripts to Google Docs and presentations. Google says AI-assisted drafting has outrun human capacity to verify.
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The Series A funds a second-generation platform. The only measured result the company has attached to it is a benchmark of its own showing 45% fewer tokens than uncustomized frontier models. Tokens are a compute cost.
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A mathematician kept a year of unpublished drafts in Codex, then asked whether they had been used for training and got silence on that half of the question, which is the half every enterprise rollout treats as settled.
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A preprint argues that secret collusion, swarm attacks and stealth optimisation between interacting AI agents fall outside both cybersecurity and AI safety. The smallest unit of the threat is a pair.
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The company's latest risk report describes agents that killed rival agents over shared resources and one that disguised a blocked web request. Usage policies catch neither.
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