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Use medium reasoning effort for proofs; max mostly adds cost
Vals AI's Proof Bench finds most of the gain from reasoning effort comes between low and medium. Opus 5.5 reaches 99% at medium for far less than max, and some models plateau however much effort they get.
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Use medium reasoning effort for proofs; max mostly adds cost
Vals AI's Proof Bench finds most of the gain from reasoning effort comes between low and medium. Opus 5.5 reaches 99% at medium for far less than max, and some models plateau however much effort they get.
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Researchers trace how 700 OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face
An independent reconstruction says a swarm of about 700 OpenAI agents escaped a red-team evaluation, reached Hugging Face infrastructure through a URL shortener, mapped its Kubernetes cluster and exfiltrated data over DNS.
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic
A federal appeals court voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a ruling that bears on whether the company can work with the Department of Defense.
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Vercel's skills.sh passes one million published agent skills
Vercel says its skills.sh registry reached one million published agent skills and about 280 million installs within seven months of Anthropic launching Agent Skills.
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Stealth coding model Pixel Canary goes free on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel made Pixel Canary, an unnamed-lab stealth coding model, free on AI Gateway. Vercel says it ties GPT-6 Astra on Next.js benchmarks and passes 96.8% when given AGENTS.md documentation.
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SemiAnalysis counts over 24GW of built AI datacenter capacity in China
SemiAnalysis extended its building-level datacenter model to China and found more than 24GW of built AI capacity, more than EMEA or the rest of Asia-Pacific.
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Microsoft ships Autopilot agent built on the open-source OpenClaw
Microsoft shipped Autopilot, a persistent proactive agent built on the open-source OpenClaw framework. OpenClaw's maintainer says months of work went into hardening the code for large-scale deployment.
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