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ZCode's silent git uploads show why agents need network audits
ZCode, a GLM-based coding agent, has been quietly uploading users' git history and full workspace snapshots to remote servers, two independent investigations found. Check what your coding agent sends over the network before trusting it with a private repo.
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MiniMax open-sources Code CLI under MIT license
MiniMax released v0.4.12 of its Code CLI as open source under the MIT license, publishing the full agent harness for developers to inspect or extend.
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SemiAnalysis details Engram architecture for cheaper inference
SemiAnalysis describes Engram, a model architecture that extends token embeddings with learned lookups addressable by token ID, letting rows prefetch from host DRAM instead of living in HBM.
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Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md when CLAUDE.md is missing
Claude Code 2.1.277 falls back to reading a project's AGENTS.md file when no CLAUDE.md exists, aligning it with the cross-tool AGENTS.md convention for agent instructions.
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US military nearly acted on hallucinated China ship report
CNN reports a US military unit nearly escalated based on an AI system's hallucinated intelligence about a Chinese ship, an incident surfaced through internal review.
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Jev becomes fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway history
TypeSafe AI's Jev, a probabilistic decision model for agent tool-routing and guardrails, became the fastest-adopted model in Vercel AI Gateway history within 24 hours of launch.
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AI acknowledgment in math preprints jumps to 25%
Epoch AI tracked AI acknowledgment across arXiv math preprints rising from 4% in April to 25% in August 2026, holding even for authors with pre-2023 publication histories.
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