Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers
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Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers

Anthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.

October 8, 20253 min read
Sports Betting Goes Agentic: Gambling sites roll out AI tools that predict wins and track bets for sports fans
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Sports Betting Goes Agentic: Gambling sites roll out AI tools that predict wins and track bets for sports fans

AI agents are getting in on the action of online sports gambling.

September 24, 20252 min read
Agents of Commerce: Google’s AP2 gives developers new tools to build agentic payments
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Agents of Commerce: Google’s AP2 gives developers new tools to build agentic payments

Google launched an open protocol for agentic payments that enables agents based on any large language model to purchase items over the internet.

September 24, 20252 min read
Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative
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Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative

Swarms of drones that coordinate with one another autonomously have become a battlefield staple in Ukraine.

September 17, 20253 min read
2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children
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2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children

A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education. 

September 10, 20253 min read
Cybersecurity for Agents: Meta releases LlamaFirewall, an open-source defense against AI hijacking
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Cybersecurity for Agents: Meta releases LlamaFirewall, an open-source defense against AI hijacking

Autonomous agents built on large language models introduce distinct security concerns. Researchers designed a system to protect agents from common vulnerabilities.

September 3, 20252 min read
Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10
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Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10

Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.

August 27, 20252 min read
Training Data for Coding Assistants: Stanford and Alibaba build bug fixing dataset and pipeline to train AI
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Training Data for Coding Assistants: Stanford and Alibaba build bug fixing dataset and pipeline to train AI

A bottleneck in fine-tuning large language models for software engineering is building a dataset that can show them how to edit code, search for subroutines, write test scripts, control a terminal, manage a file system, and so on. Researchers built a pipeline that produces such data automatically.

August 13, 20252 min read
Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention
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Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention

An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.

August 6, 20254 min read
Agentic System for Harder Problems: Google’s AlphaEvolve uses LLMs and evolutionary code to solve complex math and speed up Gemini training
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Agentic System for Harder Problems: Google’s AlphaEvolve uses LLMs and evolutionary code to solve complex math and speed up Gemini training

LLMs can struggle with difficult algorithmic or scientific challenges when asked to solve them in a single attempt. An agentic workflow improved one-shot performance on hard problems both theoretical and practical.

July 23, 20253 min read
Born To Be Agentic: Moonshot releases Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter model fine-tuned for agentic tool use
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Born To Be Agentic: Moonshot releases Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter model fine-tuned for agentic tool use

An agent’s performance depends not only on an effective workflow but also on a large language model that excels at agentic activities. A new open-weights model focuses on those capabilities.

July 23, 20253 min read
Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid
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Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid

A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.

July 23, 20252 min read
More Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Researchers improve multi-agent systems by studying how they tend to fail
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More Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Researchers improve multi-agent systems by studying how they tend to fail

Researchers addressed weaknesses in existing multi-agent frameworks. Their systems achieved scientific and technical breakthroughs.

July 16, 20252 min read
Generated Data for Training Web Agents: Researchers scale up production of training data for web agents
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Generated Data for Training Web Agents: Researchers scale up production of training data for web agents

Developing an agent that navigates the web can involve a lot of human effort spent annotating training examples to fine-tune the agent’s LLM component. Scientists automated the production of data that fine-tuned LLMs effectively for web tasks.

July 9, 20253 min read
CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces
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CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces

Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.

June 25, 20253 min read

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