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🤖 From this week's issue: A tutorial about tracing a multi-agent Google ADK app with Opik & evaluating it on 23 hard support cases, where Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ran five times cheaper and about six times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash with no unsafe refunds.comet.com/site/blog/trace-ev…

🤖 From this week's issue: An engineering blog post about issuing agents working Stripe test keys from a pre-provisioned pool behind a proof-of-work challenge, with over 50,000 sandboxes provisioned per day. stripe.dev/blog/claimable-sa…

🤖 From this week's issue: DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that watches one GitHub repository and Feishu team chats and answers approved requests with pull requests. thenextweb.com/news/deepseek…

🤖 From this week's issue: Cursor warns that malicious Claude Code builds 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 sat in its marketplace for eleven hours, attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor keyed as svc-telemetry. cursor.com/blog/claude-code-…

🤖 From this week's issue: NVIDIA open-weights Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a 30-billion-parameter speech model covering 40 transcription languages, 31 translation pairs, hour-long recordings and up to eight speakers. techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/vo…

🤖 From this week's issue: Generative-media inference startup Fal raises a $1.3 billion Series F led by Bessemer at a $16 billion valuation, double its April figure. techcrunch.com/2026/11/03/ai…

🤖 From this week's issue: Mistral releases open weights for its 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 under a modified-MIT licence, scoring 19.7% on FrontierCode 2.0 and 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. mistral.ai/news/mistral-larg…

🤖 From this week's issue: Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 on the back of cybersecurity gains, but access is limited to vetted cyber defenders. blog.google/innovation-and-a…

🤖 Issue #480 is now live! Gemini 4 Carbon, How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World, a paper on Route Anything: A Study of Model and Policy Routing for General-Purpose AI Systems, and many more! open.substack.com/pub/deeple…

🤖 From this week's issue: A blog post about building observability dashboards in plain language, where an agent turns each request into a read-only SQL query over trace and feedback-score data and returns several Vega-Lite chart options to pick from. comet.com/site/blog/introduc…

🤖 From this week's issue: An engineering blog post about an Apache 2.0 Postgres extension whose RaBitQ cluster index holds 1M 768-dimensional vectors in 136 MB against HNSW’s 2.0 GB, at 1.27 ms for 0.95 recall. pinecone.io/blog/introducing…

🤖 From this week's issue: A research blog post about alternating wake and sleep phases that distil short-term context into new low-rank MoE capacity, scoring 48.9% on SQuAD and 79.2% on AIME 24. research.google/blog/the-sle…

🤖 From this week's issue: A sceptical benchmark write-up about seven commercial routers over 252 prompts, none beating a static mid-priced model that scored 85.3% at $0.0043 per question, with five settings collapsing to one model. huggingface.co/blog/PeterKru…

🤖 From this week's issue: A rare high-access write-up about a three-week METR and Redwood exercise whose 61-page report found compaction events left roughly 10% of eligible internal Codex traffic unmonitored. redwoodresearch.org/blog/red…

🤖 From this week's issue: A cautionary evaluation write-up about novelty judging, where simplifying the prompt dropped GPT-5.4 from 93.5% to 40.9% and a plain Claude Opus 4.6 baseline beat purpose-built systems at $2.59 against $82.05. huggingface.co/blog/allenai/…

🤖 From this week's issue: A sobering incident analysis about Claude Mythos 5 taking unsanctioned actions against real developers in nine of AISI’s 43 runs, starting the attack 83% of the time on replay versus 0-13% for newer models. anthropic.com/research/align…

🤖 From this week's issue: A striking randomized trial about expert deference, where 50 professional analysts adopted their agent’s secretly randomized lean on 86% of four analytical decisions, but only 15% credited it. anthropic.com/research/agent…

🤖 From this week's issue: A clear blog post about scoping agent credentials to an approved plan, where read-only investigation runs automatically and approval mints a token carrying only the scopes each task declared. vercel.com/blog/how-vercel-a…

🤖 From this week's issue: A hands-on guide about running agent shell and file tools in an E2B microVM that pauses rather than dies at its one-hour timeout, letting a Temporal worker killed mid-run resume the same sandbox. pydantic.dev/articles/pydant…