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How employment is changing at Anthropic
Anthropic economists study how AI has restructured work inside Anthropic: hiring shifted away from junior technical roles as AI agent hours grew to outnumber employees six to one by August, output per person rose as staff adopted new tools, and human attention became the bottleneck. The paper ends with lessons for other employers.
23 min · 5,401 words
One Parser, Two Bugs, Many Routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi Across eCos and Linux
Long-form version of Quentin Kaiser's Hexacon 2026 talk: a WPS EAP reassembly overflow in Broadcom's proprietary 802.11 SDK, present since at least 2010 and only partially patched in 2018, enables unauthenticated over-the-air memory leaks and remote code execution on millions of routers, including gateways from three of four Belgian ISPs, with a disclosure timeline and takeaways.
5 min · 1,108 words
Basis researchers show how LLMs can invent a programming language, write an interpreter, and prove that the interpreter follows the language's rules—arguing that shipping a verified interpreter is becoming a practical unit of AI-generated software, not just generated code snippets.
19 min · 4,264 words
How many stars does it take to find a cluster?A pre-registered search for co-moving stars in Gaia DR3, and an honest measure of what it can and cannot see.
Shaurya describes a pre-registered search for groups of co-moving stars within about 500 parsecs of the Sun using Gaia DR3. The pipeline recovers known clusters and its sensitivity is measured by injection tests (roughly 10 surviving members beyond 140 pc), but it produces too many false positives to trust a new detection, and a classifier did not fully fix that.
6 min · 1,475 words
Why harnesses matter for energy efficiency
Neuralwatt CEO Chad Gibson analyses a month of agentic traffic and finds the agent harness calling a model shapes GPU energy use: uncached input ranged from 1.6% to 11.1% across clients, a cache miss roughly doubles a request's energy, and every cache break in lab tests came from a harness editing what it had already sent.
14 min · 3,236 words
How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
Ayo Omolewa's technical teardown of Block Blast: decompiling the Android app shows most game logic arrives as server-selected, encrypted JavaScript 'traits', with remote rules deciding pieces, scores and ads, including one that waits for an expensive ad before dealing an unplaceable hand. Includes how to reproduce the findings.
19 min · 4,462 words
Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing
Google Quantum AI reports in Science that magic state cultivation works in practice on its Willow processor, cutting errors about 40x versus no cultivation. The post explains why magic states are a long-standing bottleneck for universal, error-corrected quantum computing and how the team grafted cultivated states from a color code into a surface code.
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Neural Networks Are Already CleanA working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits
Nick Cammarata of Goodfire argues neural networks are already 'clean': polysemanticity and messy circuits may be less fundamental than assumed, and studying neurons and circuit ecology points toward more interpretable structure than the superposition story alone suggests.
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Frontier Pre-training at Microsoft AI
Microsoft AI details pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE foundation model (80B active) trained on 16k GB200 GPUs over 38 days, which it says beats the open-weight models it tested on held-out evaluations at 4-12x better pre-training FLOPs efficiency, covering scaling ladders with source scaling, hyperparameter scaling laws, MoE and Muon optimizations, activation gradient clipping and native vision data.
12 min · 2,874 words
The Citizen Lab reports the first public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads: Israeli firm Discover-Tech bought ads that infected devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware. The report details its Controlium targeting platform, four billion bid records across ~200,000 sites and apps, the DARK CARTOGRAPHER actor, ad-industry certifications, and recommendations.
105 min · 24,189 words
PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999)
pwn.ai's write-up of how Vercel's $1M Sandbox challenge led to a Linux networking bug where guest-controlled checksum metadata could rewrite an IPv4 header after validation, escalating from a 32-byte host-memory disclosure to a full guest-to-host KVM escape, with the upstream fix and patch timeline.
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Dex Horthy of HumanLayer reruns frontier coding models on the full SlopCodeBench (36 problems, 196 checkpoints), where agents must extend their own code across changing requirements. Strict pass rates ranged 12.2-16.3%, led by gpt-6 Astra, versus 14.8% for gpt-5.5 in May; xhigh effort cost 2-4x more than medium and sometimes scored worse.
8 min · 1,878 words
How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?
Vals AI gave six personal-assistant agents an impossible task: recover a £350 train refund after the claim window closed, in a simulated world where all outgoing email was answered by personas. The agents escalated to MPs, councillors, ombudsmen, legal clinics and chargebacks, with one sending 187 emails and another oversharing private family details.
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StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 has flagship LLMs spend one hour in their first-party CLI harness writing a StarCraft: Brood War Protoss bot in C++, scored by win rate against human-written bots. GPT-6 Astra leads, GPT-6.1 Sol offers the best value, and the benchmark shows no signs of saturating.
6 min · 1,365 words
Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
Apple Machine Learning Research explains how MLX plus RDMA lets large open-weight models run locally and across networked Mac Studios—covering distributed inference setup aimed at the Muse Spark Open and similar workloads.
12 min · 2,785 words
Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Cloudflare uses Radar and Bot Management data to show that after reported strikes on Yandex data centers, the traffic drop from Yandex Search was mostly verified crawlers, while malicious automation on Yandex.Cloud largely migrated to other hosting providers, a reminder that ASN traffic volume is a poor proxy for bot behavior.
7 min · 1,622 words
Ultramarine 1 Flash: Scaling Non-Verifiable RL
Paper Instruments presents Ultramarine 1 Flash, an agentic model for professional knowledge work trained with large-scale reinforcement learning on GLM-5.3 Flash. It improves averages across six knowledge-work benchmarks while generating fewer tokens, and costs about $0.13 per task on their internal suite.
32 min · 7,459 words
A proposal for better informing the public about loss-of-control risks from frontier AI development
METR lays out the public evidence gaps on whether frontier AI developers could lose control of internal AI systems, covering alignment, control and monitoring, and acceleration from automated AI R&D, and proposes embedded independent assessments using internal data and staff access, with published findings, permitted redactions and stated limitations.
17 min · 3,872 words
The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire
Michele Coscia explains how he and co-authors inferred the economic complexity of the Western Roman Empire from occupations recorded in Latin inscriptions (the LIST dataset), correcting for status and gender biases. Latium scored highest, and Roman-era complexity for modern-country territories correlates significantly with present-day Economic Complexity Index values.
4 min · 935 words
Scaling agent teams: reach the frontier at 30% of the cost
Cohere Labs finds that heterogeneous coding-agent teams—pairing a strong lead with many cheaper planners—can reach frontier ProgramBench performance while cutting cost about 70% versus an all-frontier team (e.g. $510 down to $155), with lessons on where extra agents actually help.
20 min · 4,528 words