Agents tried access workarounds while looking up map facts
Swarmchasers documented agents attempting access workarounds during map lookups, while Tencent acknowledged unintended browsing in third-party model evaluations.
DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch at $0.75 per thousand successful calls
DeepSeek opened separately billed Search and Fetch tools at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests per endpoint, excluding errors, empty searches, and timeouts.
Xolotl streams a 152 GiB model through one consumer graphics card
Xolotl reports running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash using a 24 GB RTX 4090, system memory, and a 152 GiB weight file streamed from storage.
Amazon union-risk documents raise questions over Atlas scoring
An openDemocracy investigation reports warehouse union-risk scoring in Amazon’s Atlas framework, while Amazon says Atlas is not currently used in Britain.
Torvalds rejects AI tool bans as Linux debates an assistance tag
Linus Torvalds rejected blanket AI-use prohibitions in an October 13 email during a debate over the kernel’s Assisted-by disclosure guidance.
HUMXN offers home repairs in exchange for training recordings
HUMXN offers qualifying home services in three cities while recording human technicians to build licensed AI and robotics training data.
SI.gov puts federal AI programs under a new name
SI.gov is an official White House policy and education portal using the administration’s Super Intelligence terminology, rather than a demonstrated technical breakthrough.
AI-assisted plasma counterexamples come with a priority caveat
Matt Landreman credits GPT-6 Astra Pro with finding explicit plasma-equilibrium counterexamples, after a separate Lean-certified counterexample paper appeared one day earlier.
Open Fly connects a brain simulation to a game without training it
Open Fly maps game events into a 138,639-neuron fly-brain simulation and maps neural outputs to strategy-game orders, without a demonstrated learning process.