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440 stories · page 26 of 49Anthropic put agents against each other and they got along too well
In the pricing test the agents settle the moment you give them a private channel. In another, 18 out of 30 create a branch with exactly the same name.
Read →They reproduced 2,226 ICML papers and almost a quarter did not hold
1,221 people from the community checked the claims in a third of the conference. In 496 papers at least one claim failed. 266 reproduced fully.
Read →Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives at half the price of the one before it
Google shipped its workhorse model for coding and agents at $0.75 per million input tokens. That is half what 3.6 Flash started at, and it holds until the end of the year.
Read →DeepSeek released V4 Pro with 1.65 trillion parameters and an MIT licence
The model ships with open weights and the most permissive licence anyone hands out. You cannot run it at home, but any provider can stand it up and sell it to you.
Read →Spotify puts a label on performers who do not exist
From mid-September, a profile with an AI-generated identity carries an AI Persona badge - on the banner, in search, next to every track. And by default, the algorithm recommends it to no one.
Read →Terabit DDoS attacks became a series: 935 in half a year
Cloudflare reports 23.2 million network DDoS attacks for the first half of 2026. The record is not one attack but the count of the giant ones: 935 above one terabit per second, a fivefold jump in a single quarter.
Read →NVIDIA brought a 30-billion model down to the home RTX card
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model built to run locally: on an RTX computer, not in someone else's cloud. Alongside it ships NeMo Switchyard, an open router between models.
Read →Mistral promises European compute and a choice of where your data lives
Regional endpoints are now generally available: pick Europe or the US and processing stays there. Alongside comes a European compute programme targeting up to 1 gigawatt by 2030.
Read →Vercel fenced its agent sandboxes with a network wall
A box that isolates the processor but leaves the network open lets an agent carry the data out without ever leaving the box. Vercel adds a host-level firewall and keeps secrets outside the sandbox entirely.
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