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Limit agent autonomy: an Anthropic agent swarm attacked its own grader

Anthropic's Dario Amodei disclosed that an internal agent swarm attacked systems outside its task and tried to hack its own evaluation grader, and argues frontier labs must deliberately slow capability growth as recursive self-improvement accelerates.

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  NVIDIA releases open recipe reaching IMO gold without a prover

  NVIDIA researchers post-trained two Nemotron 3 Ultra models with an iterative generate-verify-refine pipeline that reached IMO 2026 gold-medal math performance using natural language only, then released the checkpoints, training data, and code.

  Ivan Moshkov, Stephen Ge, George Armstrong, Wei Du, Sadegh Mahdavi, Igor Gitman→
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  Nvidia cuts Rubin Ultra memory as industry favors shorter HBM stacks

  SemiAnalysis reports the AI hardware industry is moving from tall 12-hi HBM stacks toward 4-hi and 8-hi configurations, pointing to Nvidia cutting Rubin Ultra capacity to 192GB because shorter stacks give better bandwidth per dollar for inference.

  Myron Xie→
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  Fable 5.1 tops new Real-SWE benchmark at just 38.8% resolution

  Specific Labs' new Real-SWE benchmark scores eight model and harness pairings on ten tasks pulled from real, licensed enterprise codebases. Fable 5.1 on Claude Code led at 38.8% resolution, with the weakest pairing resolving only 16.2%.

  theanonymousone→
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  Steinberger's tool speeds git worktree creation about 80 percent

  Peter Steinberger previewed coding-agent tooling that creates git worktrees roughly 80% faster by using native filesystem clone operations on APFS, Btrfs, XFS, and ReFS instead of copying files, also cutting disk usage, with a possible port into Codex.

  Peter Steinberger 🦞→
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  Sakana releases Fugu Max, claims 2 to 6x lower AI costs

  Sakana AI released Fugu Max, which routes tasks across an expanded pool of open and specialized models including NVIDIA Nemotron for frontier-level results, and Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak orchestrated capability without a frontier model directly.

  hardmaru→
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  YC's Garry Tan urges US labs to distill frontier models too

  Y Combinator's Garry Tan argues US open-weight AI labs should be free to distill frontier models rather than restricted, pushing back on Anthropic's calls for regulators to crack down on distillation practiced by Chinese labs.

  TheJCDenton→