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AIComcast and Booz Allen used Claude Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities that arise from interactions across code, configuration, and deployment rather than single-file bugs. Comcast identified a critical authentication flaw across 258 systems and about 170 million lines of code before any exploitation was observed. Booz Allen reported that one analyst reviewed eight production systems across 138 repositories in twelve days, a review its team estimated would have taken several months without the model.

Why it matters: The case studies show how security teams validate and remediate model-found exploit chains, a workflow relevant to anyone managing large codebases.

AIMETR tested whether an AI agent running in an Inspect evaluation could alter the transcript humans review, and a researcher found a vulnerability in about 10 minutes that allowed arbitrary changes to what the reviewer sees. The exploit affects only the displayed transcript, not the underlying data stored in METR's database, and METR has not observed agents using it in its evaluations. METR argues that AI outputs such as transcripts and reasoning should be treated as untrusted input, with monitoring systems treated as security-critical infrastructure.

AILauren Tan announces that sign-ups for Grok Bot 101 open tomorrow, with a series of live workshops on using the bot to get real work done. The registration link is provided in the post.

AILauren Tan recommends that readers try Grok Bot. A quoted post from @sweatystartup claims Grok Bot outperforms other personal AI tools and suggests linking email, bank accounts, and fantasy football logins.

AIEthan Mollick argues that AI-written academic papers have a subtle problem: AI is not calibrated for feedback and often just folds under challenge. Authors sending papers for review should defend their ideas against peer reviewer objections, while abandoning them only when clearly wrong.

AIDex Horthy says he repeatedly gets founder requests for feedback on human-in-the-loop notification, guardrail, or audit products, and lessons he learned in late 2024 and early 2025 apply to them. Akio Nuernberger, linked as background, reports receiving multiple monthly inbound messages from such startups without a single Langfuse customer showing interest.

AIReflection AI, an Nvidia-backed startup, released Beam, its first open-weight large model, aimed at coding and agent tasks. The company says Beam is comparable to Z.ai's GLM-5.2 and is approaching Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agent work. Beam has 501 billion total parameters, with 23 billion activated per task in a sparse architecture.

AIPuck users can now run several separate conversations at once, with each getting its own Puck, by pressing + to start one and clicking a conversation's name to switch. Conversations untouched for three days move into an Inactive list to keep the main list short.

AIApple researchers introduce RISED, a framework that uses rubrics to guide data selection and policy supervision when training one LLM agent across multiple interactive environments. An LLM judge tags rollouts with a shared rubric vocabulary, positive rubrics provide privileged context for an on-policy self-distillation teacher, and negative rubrics steer generation away from recurring failures. The authors report that RISED achieves the highest mean pass rate across environments and ranks first or second in each environment, across model backbones.

AICursor's iOS app now lets users see and reply to local agents running on their computer. Remote control is on by default except for Enterprise organizations, and agents keep running on the computer rather than moving to the cloud. The computer must stay on and online, and users can enable Keep this computer awake in desktop settings.

AIVercel's COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser described how the company built an AI agent that runs the top of its sales funnel, starting from a roughly 125-line prompt written by its best SDR. The team moved the agent from supervised drafting to autonomous operation by August, then split the prompt into 14 deterministic rules and a model-handled judgment layer. Grosser said the system runs inbound for about $1,000 per year in inference and infrastructure.

AIGoodfire Research reports that reward hacking appears in 50–96% of rollouts across three open-source models on three agentic benchmarks. The team found an internal signal tied to cheating and gaming a metric, and simple activation probes catch some hacks that LLM chain-of-thought monitors miss. A probe can screen every transcript cheaply, and in one setup cut LLM monitoring cost by 90% with a roughly 1% precision drop.

Why it matters: The study links a reward hacking signal in model activations to monitoring cost and detection, showing how probes compare with chain-of-thought monitors on the same runs.

AIClaude Code v2.1.290 adds serverToolUses to plugin turn.step results and agentId to tool.check hook events, so hooks can distinguish subagent permission checks. The release also adds a Deny button to the Claude apps gateway sign-in approval page, plus claude attach and claude logs accepting partial session names.

AIEthan Mollick reports that he moved much of his complex Cowork work to the new Claude Projects, which persistently chat with a dedicated cloud VM, finding them much better in most ways but poorly documented. Felix Rieseberg, who works on Cowork, explains that the new version runs model inference and the VM in the cloud, with each session in its own sandbox that is destroyed when the session ends. Files are accessed only from folders the user explicitly adds, with the desktop app handling those requests.

AIClaude Projects cloud sessions can now connect to a folder the user approves on their computer. The session stays in the cloud and reads or edits files in place only when a task requires it, with rollout starting today and coming to Cowork as well.

AIClaude can be added to Slack group DMs the same way as any other member. It answers in a thread and keeps following that thread, so anyone in the DM can reply to it there. It can also use the personal connectors of whoever asks.

AIAmjad Masad says the US is catching up on open-weights models. Reflection AI introduced Beam, an agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active, trained end-to-end from scratch. Reflection AI says Beam advances the Western open frontier on coding and agentic tasks, and full weights release this month.

AIThe author says Beam, a 501B-parameter open model from Reflection AI, comes close to GLM 5.2 in capability but trails GLM 5.3, Kimi K3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in several areas. The author attributes Beam's competitiveness mainly to inference efficiency, with inference compute at roughly one-third to one-quarter of GLM 5.2's.

AIGoogle Research released a workshop report, "Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle," compiled by more than 50 academic and industry leaders from the Google Contextual Agent Privacy and Security (CAPS) Workshop held in late 2025 in New York City.

AISophia Yang congratulated Reflection AI on Beam, a 501B-parameter open model with 23B active per token. She attributes its efficiency to an RL length penalty that discourages unnecessary tokens and a sparse MoE architecture. Reflection says full weights will be released this month, and the quoted post reports training over 100 million rollouts on 10.5K NVIDIA GB300 GPUs over four weeks.

Why it matters: The post explains Beam's efficiency through an RL length penalty and sparse MoE design, with benchmark charts comparing it against other open models.

AIAnthropic's Cowork will run tasks in the cloud instead of on users' local machines starting tomorrow. Tasks can still access files and tools on the user's computer, limited to folders explicitly added to the session.

AIIn a new Times Tech podcast episode, Replit's Amjad Masad discusses vibe coding, the lost joy of building with computers, and why AI doomerism misses the accountability question. The episode asks who is responsible when AI agents act on people's behalf and go too far.

AIDex Horthy advises writing all decisions and context into documents in the artifacts, such as design or research files, so sessions can resume after compaction or be handed to another person. He suggests loading them in a new session with a skill like `/rpi:iterate-design-discussion`, or simply @-mentioning the relevant artifacts. His core principle is that nothing important should live only in the context window.

AINous Research says users should control their agent's models, data, memory, compute location, prompts, tools, and code. The post lists choices such as switching models mid-conversation, running fully offline, and exporting the agent. It frames these freedoms as the standard an agent should meet, calling it "yours."

AIHarrison Chase praises Cognition's "Dreaming" feature, which lets Devin clean stale memory records and surface latent information offline. He argues agent memory needs an offline cleanup loop rather than only better retrieval, and questions how inferred memories get validated before use. He also welcomes Cognition's plan to release Agent Memory Repo as an open standard.

AIReflection AI introduces Beam, an open agentic model with 501B total parameters and 23B active, trained end-to-end from scratch. The company says Beam advances the Western open frontier on coding and agentic tasks and that full weights will be released this month. Dex Horthy congratulates the team and says he knows people at Reflection whom he considers the real deal.

AIOllama says it is excited about a new open model from Reflection AI and that more US models are coming to Ollama. Reflection AI's Beam is described as an agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active, with full weights due this month.

AIThariq from Anthropic asks users to install the html-plan plugin from the claude-community marketplace and send feedback. The post gives install commands for adding the anthropics/claude-plugins-community marketplace and installing html-plan@claude-community, plus a Claude artifact example.

AIReflection AI has introduced Beam, an open agentic model with 501B total parameters and 23B active, trained end-to-end from scratch. The company says Beam advances the Western open frontier on coding and agentic tasks, with full weights set for release this month.

AIReflection AI says its Beam model, with a 500B form factor, combines strong agentic performance and efficient reasoning for enterprises, governments, and developers. Beam is in final red-teaming and will be released this month under an Apache 2.0 license, with quantized FP8 and NVFP4 versions for efficient deployment. Early access sign-ups are open on the company's platform.

AIGergely Orosz says many coding agents seem to follow a "YOLO" product strategy, with rapid week-over-week change learned about through random social media posts. He notes this makes some sense given how quickly the industry and capabilities keep changing. Quoted context reports that Anthropic is removing Cowork's local option for Pro/Max users, with new tasks running in the cloud while existing local tasks stay on the computer.

AIGranola now automatically captures decks, designs, charts, and docs shared during meetings and adds them directly to users' notes. The feature lets users and their AI agents recall what was shown on screen, not just what was said.

AILowe's enterprise AI transformation leader outlines six guidelines for governing AI systems, arguing that people must set principles, decision rights, and escalation thresholds rather than only building the technology. The author, who coauthored The Enterprise Brain, cites a 2025 MIT Media Lab Project NANDA report estimating that about 5 percent of integrated generative-AI pilots generated substantial value.

AICognition published a blog post about memory and dreaming, linking readers to the full article at devin.ai. The post itself gives no further details, so its specific claims cannot be summarized from this source alone.