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Simplifying domains for people and agents

Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402

Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid

Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

The Internet has a second audience

Tools

Sandbox SDK 1.0 adds direct Durable Object control of containers

The release lets developers manage container startup and shutdown, run commands, and save sandbox snapshots.

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

Agents

DerivAudit framework tests whether persistent-agent memories follow from past interactions

A new paper examines how evidence scope, statement composition and write-time admission affect the reliability of long-term agent memory.

Agents

Small-agent teams scale unevenly across benchmarks, study finds

A study of eight orchestration architectures found the largest accuracy gains on arithmetic tasks, with more limited improvements on several other benchmarks.

Helping small businesses put AI to work

Research

COFFEE framework adds sequence-level guidance to discrete diffusion

The research framework combines token predictions with a compiled finite-state model to guide generation toward sequence-level preferences.

Tools

CodeSkillBank turns source-code evidence into reusable programming skills

The collection is built with Code2Skill, a pipeline that converts implementation evidence into structured procedural knowledge, and powers DeveloperSkillHubs.

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The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is seeking general information, feedback, suggestions, and experiential and technical insights from stakeholders to inform NTIS's goal of fully digitizing, modernizing, and enhancing the utility of the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). NTIS has…

Tools

Fireflies adds free, unlimited voice dictation to its desktop app

Fireflies Talk lets users dictate text into apps on Mac and Windows, with the company saying dictations are stored on the device.

Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India

Introducing Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock for in-region inference in Seoul and Singapore

On the Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off in LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study

SCLATE: A Substrate for Continual-Learning Agent Training and Evaluation

Agents

Palo Alto Networks introduces CLARA Agent for Gemini Enterprise

The agent connects Strata Cloud Manager security data to Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, where users can ask questions in plain language.

Agents

Okta introduces production-traffic testing for sign-in policy changes

Policy Branches lets administrators monitor draft authentication rules before applying them, including changes that affect AI agent sign-ins.

Tools

GitHub adds repository-level runner settings for Dependabot

Repository administrators can choose runner types, labels and groups for Dependabot updates in eligible repositories.

OpenAI stops training latests models, citing safety concerns

China’s AI agents can lie and scheme – just like their US rivals

Tools

GitHub previews external custom properties for repository context

The preview lets external systems supply read-only repository context that can feed GitHub’s existing views, filters and ruleset targeting.

Tools

Appwrite adds breached-password detection to Auth

The feature checks passwords against Have I Been Pwned and lets teams choose whether to reject matches or block sign-ins.

Models

GPT-6.1 Sol begins rolling out across GitHub Copilot

The model is available to four Copilot plans, with access expanding gradually across supported coding tools.

Business

Upstash Blob adds 1 TB of monthly free egress to pay-as-you-go plan

The service will charge $0.02 per GB for bandwidth after the new monthly allowance.