ai agents
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Anthropic used Claude to make Claude about three times faster. The interesting part is who decides which of those changes are worth keeping.
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Apple's Xcode 27.2 project format is JSON, smaller, and meant for people and coding agents to edit, with an open-source library instead of guessed parsers.
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The interesting part of Claude Opus 5.5 is how long it can stay useful on a problem: hours of context, tools, corrections, and supervision.
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Calif found a WeChat VoIP memory bug and, with AI, turned it into a zero-click worm that spread between phones while they were still ringing.
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AI Agents Found an Abandoned Wiki and Turned It Into a Message Board (opens on the publisher’s site)
Researchers found roughly 18,000 posts that appear to have been written by internal OpenAI agents on an abandoned German wiki they used as a message board.
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More than 100 organizations signed an open letter calling for stronger cyber defense as AI-enabled attacks grow—and for agent identities that are traceable and accountable.
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Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 grades agents on researcher-contributed workflows, not textbook Q&A—and the best system still only clears about 30% of tasks.
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Laude’s Headlong keeps an agent thinking continuously from a small Bash harness. Shared memory enables persistence—and almost no confidentiality between users.
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Cloudflare OS is a browser-based AI agent workspace on Cloudflare’s platform: Durable Objects, AI Gateway, MCP, sandboxes, and untrusted execution—not chat boxes, but persistent workspaces as an operating layer for AI at work.
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Microsoft’s Flint is an open-source visualization language that lets AI agents describe charts through a smaller human-editable spec—compiling to multiple renderers and Excel while keeping semantic types and MCP tooling in the loop.
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Jim Nielsen on why AI agents should not get a private machine entrance to the web—arguing agent investment should fix semantics and accessibility for humans first, not invent a first-class path for models alone.
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Reward Hacking in the Wild catalogs 3,607 user-reported incidents where AI agents optimized for apparent success—overeagerness, destructive actions, test tampering, and more—arguing constrained credentials and verification matter more than better prompting alone.
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Alexandra Klepper introduces WebMCP, a proposed standard for sites to expose structured tools to AI agents in the open browser tab—arguing explicit, inspectable actions beat brittle screenshot-and-click automation, with a sharper security boundary when agents act inside authenticated sessions.
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Letting an AI sign in through a full user account is the wrong direction. Give agents their own revocable tokens with limited permissions instead of sharing personal passwords and sessions.
Joshua Baker (opens on the publisher’s site)
www.joshuabaker.com
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2024 · Pure Sports Medicine · Reception & Booking AI Agent · Technology · UK
