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AIAmazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. The episode also covers startups seeking consumer access to inboxes, files, and credit cards for AI agents.

AILangChain's Managed Deep Agents v0.9 adds a reactions attribute for Slack channels that accepts either an emoji string or a callable returning one. The article shows a function that returns a bug emoji when a message contains "broken" and eyes otherwise. It also shows a TypeSafe Classifier that picks from a seven-emoji vocabulary and falls back to eyes below 25% confidence.

AIThe Financial Times reported that OpenAI's annualized revenue run-rate was $20 billion below a widely cited $70 billion figure, a gap the newsletter attributes to confusion between gross and net revenue. OpenAI has said its figure is net, while Anthropic's includes partner sales such as those made through Amazon and Microsoft. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI expects to reach $70 billion annualized revenue by year end, assuming a net basis.

AIa16z says it is leading an investment in TypeSafe AI, whose Jev model hands decisions to code as typed values and reached 1 trillion tokens generated three days after launch. The company says Jev costs roughly 1/100 to 1/500 of frontier models and runs 100x faster on classification tasks at comparable accuracy. TypeSafe says 25% of the Fortune 500 have integrated Jev.

AIAn NBER working paper by Prof. Zitzewitz, drawing on over 100 years of prediction market data, found no dimension of political affiliation, gender, race, or age where returns differed from zero beyond the standard error. The only exception was non-US elections, where markets appeared to overrate right-leaning candidates, but that bias was not statistically significant. The findings are preliminary.

AIThe Trump administration announced a voluntary agreement with major AI companies calling for internal safety monitoring, external audits, and independent board reviews, and the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over potential consumer risks. OpenAI released Dots, a proactive assistant that retains context, works across applications, and acts without waiting for prompts. Google says Gemini 4 Argon can generate up to a million output tokens in a single response.

AIBusabase releases an MIT-licensed open-source database and workspace that lets AI agents write results to a shared, structured space instead of isolated chat histories. The tool turns agent outputs into reusable data, documents, and skills that a whole team can access.

AIAnthropic planted 70 bugs in a 116k-line codebase and tested two approaches over three runs. A single agent found 14, 15 and 27 bugs, while a workflow found 66 bugs in each run.

AIAnthropic says dynamic workflows are powerful but can use many tokens, so users should start with a scoped task and increase complexity gradually. It points to the /claude-api managed-agents-onboard bug-hunter command in Claude Code and to templates at

AIPerplexity Developers says its new cookbook builds a browser agent that sends a screenshot and questions to pplx-decider-v1.1-27b through the Decisions API, which accepts text and image inputs. The developer's code converts the returned probabilities into clicks, scrolls, and stops.

AIMike Knoop says ARC-AGI-2 is far harder than ARC-AGI-1, even amid rapid progress on math. He adds that the final open solutions will be useful artifacts to study, and notes that the Kaggle Grand Prize bonus threshold of 85% has been reached this year, the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle.

AIOwain Evans's team reports that models can transfer more complex traits than owl preferences through training data, including novel skills, agentic hacking, and backdoors. In the new paper, a backdoor transfers even though neither the trigger nor the backdoor behavior appears in the training data.

AIDex Horthy says the share of tasks that can be one-shot without strict process has grown, but alignment, grilling, and planning workflows still matter. He argues that heavy planning on small tasks makes developers feel slower, and predicts tools will add escape hatches so humans or models can decide to ship directly. He adds that as model capabilities improve, the "smart zone" has grown to roughly 200k–400k tokens, and HumanLayer is prototyping research-to-implement and research-to-short-design-to-implement workflows.

AIReplit's X account shares a showcase of TikTok Ads MCP, which runs TikTok Ads from Replit. The post is a broadcast link with no further details on features, pricing, or availability.

AIFactory says it is acquiring Mentlio (YC S26), a startup building in-harness model routing, context compression, and AI usage measurement to optimize cost and quality. The founders, Ashank Shah and Ahmet Demirbas, will join Factory to bring this work into its autonomous software engineering platform for large enterprises.

AIOpenAI told investors it had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 billion it reported last month, and AI-linked stocks including Nvidia, CoreWeave, Oracle and Nebius fell Thursday. Google debuted a Gemini assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across web, mobile and desktop. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 and halved Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices.

AIOnce open AI models are downloaded, tracing illegal activity built on them is nearly impossible, the article says. The source text is a single sentence, so no models, companies, or figures are named.

AIJared Gross, head of institutional portfolio strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, says the AI buildout is a boom, not a bubble. He discusses AI asset allocation in a Bloomberg interview as credit markets grow jittery over more mega debt deals financing the AI arms race.

AIWPP has opened a flagship AI-enabled production facility in east London as part of a £600m WPP Production business, with CEO Cindy Rose saying AI is ushering in a "golden age of marketing". Some AI-led ads can be made up to 60% cheaper, one industry source says, while critics including Luke Scott warn that a lost generation of directors may miss the hands-on training that built careers like Ridley Scott's.

AIAndreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore released a report on the top 100 consumer AI apps, finding ChatGPT still leads by a wide margin while smaller players like Suno and ElevenLabs show staying power. Moore says almost all AI revenue comes from subscriptions and token usage, and that most consumer AI is prosumer AI. The report finds no top-100 entrants in social, dating, marketplace, retail, travel, finance, or health categories.

AIMike Knoop says the 85% Grand Prize bonus threshold has been reached on Kaggle. The ARC Prize 2026 leaderboard lists Tufa Labs first at 88.06%, followed by Rabbithole at 80.56% and Yi-Chia Chen at 77.22%. Knoop says this will be the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle and expects an open-source, low-cost, offline reproducible solution and model.

AIEthan Mollick says Google's main challenge after Gemini 4 is what it does with a strong model. He argues that Anthropic and OpenAI are moving toward a single interface for many tasks using orchestrator agents. He says the fragmented products of the Gemini 3 era will not work for what comes next.

AIAi2 says its old scheduler made every scheduled workload eventually run at HIGH priority. Researchers kept idle jobs running to reserve GPUs for experiments, because the incentives rewarded holding capacity even with no active work.

AIAi2 reports that over a 30-day test of its new scheduler, teams received 98% of the GPU hours they were owed, based on actual demand. Cluster occupancy stayed at 98%, and spare capacity went to interruptible work without drawing down team budgets.

AIMeta spent heavily on Anthropic's Claude models, with internal use reaching up to 60,000 employees and a projected $10 billion yearly spend, according to The Algorithmic Bridge. The author says Meta then released Muse Spark, which scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence benchmark, on par with Claude Opus 4.6.

AITessl Blog describes an agentic code review workflow built for teams whose coding agents produce pull requests faster than humans can review them. The workflow runs review against a written standard in the repository, applies four parallel perspectives covering correctness, security and privacy, scale and resilience, and maintainability, then records each finding, verdict, and response. Tessl Code Review, which the post says is free to start, runs these perspectives as skills, and the team's memory of past decisions is fed back into the standard.