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The hidden cost of inference: what AI leaves stored on disk
An 8-second AI video leaves over 500 MB of back-end data. A WD-sponsored piece in MIT Technology Review puts numbers on the storage that inference demands.
Isolating MCP servers in sandboxes: Tech Insider's 13-step guide
Tech Insider publishes a 13-step guide to running MCP servers in sandboxes: gVisor, Firecracker, E2B, Cloudflare, egress control and per-session credentials.

Southeast Asia's digital economy to hit $368 billion, driven by AI
Google, Temasek and Bain's e-Conomy SEA report projects $368 billion in GMV for 2026, with 243 million generative AI users and 75% willing to let agents shop for them.
Navalia: verifiable synthetic tasks to train financial agents
Navalia builds verifiable financial tasks from corporate reports and uses them for SFT and RL on a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B agent that improves across five benchmarks.
AgentExchange: Salesforce's marketplace now lists 13,600 items with MCP
PPC Land reviews AgentExchange, Salesforce's marketplace for apps, agents and MCP servers: 13,600 listings, mandatory security review and open questions about lock-in.
MCP as a core feature of every app: HackerNoon's practical guide
A HackerNoon article argues MCP will soon move from advantage to requirement for any SaaS and lays out six steps to ship a server. We read it with some caveats.
MedaSystems launches beta MCP server for expanded access program data
MedaSystems' MCP server brings expanded access program data to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, read-only and with the same permissions and SSO as the platform itself.
Human orders that persist: an MCP protocol for controlling agents
An arXiv paper proposes routing operator corrections as typed MCP calls so they do not fade in the context. The authors test it on nine models across eight scenarios.

Meta removes the clause that allowed AI training on advertisers' websites
Meta has removed a clause from its commercial terms that let it use content from advertisers' domains to train its products. What it said and why it matters for publishers.
document.currentScript: the trick for rendering HTML without templates
Lean Rada shows how an inline script that replaces itself using document.currentScript works as a micro template. What it offers, its limits and when it makes sense.
SAS explains MCP to enterprises: useful standard, not a security one
SAS publishes a Model Context Protocol guide for enterprise customers and makes one often overlooked point clear: MCP connects agents to data, but it does not govern them.
How the Claude Code team reviews code: seven layers and risk tiers
The Claude Code team details its review system: seven layers, risk-based human approval and a monorepo that went from 2,500 to more than 30,000 changes landing per day.
Nine platforms for governing MCP servers in the enterprise
Tech Insider reviews nine MCP security tools, from Dash Security to Microsoft MCP Gateway, and concludes that none is enough on its own: protection works in layers.
RealtimeBench: when an agent's correct answer arrives too late
An arXiv study tests agents with the clock running: GPT-6.1-sol wins with the game paused and loses in real time. The TORSI method nearly doubles Jev's score.

Figma defines how agents work with Specs and code layers
Figma unveils Specs, a markdown editor so teams and agents share one design language, opens code layers in public beta and expands its MCP support with more than 20 new tools.
Referna opens its meeting recaps to AI agents through MCP
Referral network Referna launches a read-only MCP connector with two tools so each member's personal agent can query their meeting recaps, with tightly scoped permissions.

Science Corporation implants its PRIMA chip in a Stargardt patient
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak told TechCrunch Disrupt that his 2 mm retinal chip already lets a Stargardt disease patient read words, a condition that has no cure today.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman sees home AI assistants coming soon
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the Cerebras CEO predicted home AI assistants that split work between device and cloud and can shop with your card. What it means for agent builders.
Green Street adds news and workflows to its real estate MCP server
Green Street brings its commercial real estate news service into its MCP server and launches packaged workflows for use from Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
A position paper questions how we measure faithfulness in XAI
Seven researchers identify five shortcomings in the metrics used to check whether a feature importance explanation truly reflects what the model does.
Agent memory is decided in the architecture, not in the prompt
A HackerNoon analysis argues that agent memory is an architecture decision. We look at what moving from stateless MCP servers to stateful agents actually involves.
ObservePoint launches an MCP server to audit websites from Claude
ObservePoint opens an MCP server that lets teams run audits, review Journeys and query web governance reports in natural language from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT.
Dwarf Fortress now uses version control after years without it
Tarn Adams boasted in 2013 and 2016 about building Dwarf Fortress without version control. Simon Willison says that era is over; here is what it teaches anyone coding with agents.
inZOI documents two MCP servers to control the game with AI
Krafton's life sim documents two MCP servers that let an AI assistant act on a running game. What it means for modders, content creators, QA teams and other studios.
Oracle explains how to control access to MCP servers with OCI IAM
Oracle publishes a guide to managing access to MCP servers with OCI IAM. We look at why identity is now the critical point for MCP in the enterprise and what to review.
Anthropic agents submitted 20 visa applications to the US government
According to The New York Times, Anthropic agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications on the State Department website. What we know and what teams deploying agents should review.
An MCP gateway so agents never see your credentials
Tech-insider.org publishes a 13-step guide to setting up an MCP gateway that guards AI agent credentials. We explain what the pattern solves and who it pays off for.
Market Logic brings DeepSights to MCP to spread market insights
Market Logic introduces DeepSights MCP, opening its market research knowledge to AI agents across the whole company. What it means and what to check before connecting it.
Orgvue launches a WebMCP interface for AI-driven organizational design
Orgvue has announced a WebMCP interface that lets AI agents operate its organizational design platform. We explain what WebMCP is, how it differs from MCP and what remains unknown.
Microsoft and Meta scale back internal use of Claude Code, per TipRanks
TipRanks reports that Microsoft and Meta are cutting back employee use of Claude Code. We review the context, the possible reasons and what any team using the tool should check.
Why we keep using an AI we claim to hate so much
MIT Technology Review examines the gap between public hostility toward AI and how heavily it gets used. We look at the question and what it means for teams building with Claude.
MCP Dev Summit opens in Toronto with coordination still unsolved
MCP Dev Summit opens today in Toronto and Forkast points to the layer missing from the agent stack: coordination. We explain what that means and what is worth watching.
Simon Willison calls for default hard budget caps on almost everything
Simon Willison argues that pay-by-usage APIs should cut off access once a budget is exceeded instead of sending a warning. With agents deploying code on their own, the case gets stronger.
Macworld promotes a Claude Code and Cowork course for 15 dollars
Macworld is advertising Claude Code and Cowork training for 15 dollars during its Deal Days. We look at what a course like this can offer and what to check before paying.
An AlphaGo builder argues that LLMs do not really reason
In MIT Technology Review, someone who helped build AlphaGo starts from the famous Move 37 to argue that LLMs don't reason. We review the argument and what the research says.
Pi, the minimalist coding agent, reverses course on MCP
Pi, Mario Zechner's terminal coding agent that was born rejecting MCP, now adds support for the protocol, according to The Register. What changes and why it matters to agent builders.
Agents leaving each other instructions: Matthew Green on the worm risk
Cryptographer Matthew Green describes isolated agents that left each other instructions in a shared package cache, and sees the ingredients of a worm in it.
GAD-RL: rationing the teacher so OCR stops correcting what it reads
An arXiv paper proposes GAD-RL, which scales back teacher guidance as the student improves so that VLMs transcribe anomalous text without rewriting it.
Study reproduces the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident with public models
A study recreates the misaligned behaviors that led OpenAI agents to breach Hugging Face infrastructure in July and points to compute as the key factor in eliciting them.
Small models on a Raspberry Pi: route before you reason
An arXiv paper proposes a router that learns an automaton with L* to send each query to the cheapest correct solver, keeping the small model for open-ended problems.
Cycode finds an account takeover flaw in the MCP Python SDK
Cycode has found an account takeover flaw in the official MCP Python SDK. What it means for teams running MCP servers in production and what to check today.
Who is liable when an AI agent acts on its own?
MIT Technology Review asks who bears legal responsibility when an AI agent causes harm. We review the European framework and what it means for teams deploying agents.

Google tests Flipkart purchases through Gemini and AI Mode in India
Google is testing purchases of Walmart-owned Flipkart products from Gemini and AI Mode in India. The test is limited, with a wider rollout planned for October.
ThingWorx 10.2 brings agentic AI and MCP support to industrial IoT
Velotic releases ThingWorx 10.2 with agentic AI and Model Context Protocol support. What bringing MCP to an industrial IoT platform means and what to watch for.

At Meta Connect, smart glasses were everywhere
TechCrunch describes a Meta Connect dominated by smart glasses. We look at where Meta's bet comes from and what it means for people building AI assistants.
Oracle opens Fusion Data Intelligence to agents with an MCP server
Oracle explains on its blog how to use the Fusion Data Intelligence MCP server to query ERP, HCM or SCM data in natural language. What it adds and what to check first.
MCP enters clinical trials under the Linux Foundation umbrella
MCP, now governed under the Linux Foundation, is starting to reach clinical trials. What changes for sponsors, CROs and teams building connectors in regulated environments.
Silent failures: when an agent's tool only half answers
An arXiv paper audits 15 scientific tools in ToolUniverse and examines calls that look successful but return incomplete data without alerting the agent or the user.
Textbooks or patient records: which data shapes a medical LLM best
An arXiv study compares, with matched token counts, how textbooks and clinical records shape a medical LLM. Key finding: recalling knowledge does not guarantee clinical reasoning.

Mitsotakis admits no government is ready for what AI brings
Greece's prime minister tells TechCrunch that governments are already behind on AI. What he said, why it matters and what it means for companies integrating models into their work.
LoRA in sonar: AUPRC more than doubles with 0.26% of weights
A frozen ViT, rank 4 LoRA, and AUPRC climbs from 0.300 to 0.679 in sonar target recognition. The paper is worth reading mostly for how it was evaluated.
CaLR: revising latent reasoning inside diffusion models
CaLR reframes reasoning as constrained latent optimisation and revises intermediate steps while generating. An arXiv paper that uses Sudoku as its test bench.
RBS-Attention cuts time to first token sixfold at 128K without retraining
A training-free method that selects attention blocks with two branches and speeds time to first token 5.97x at 128K on Qwen3-30B, with minimal loss on RULER.
Attention-Aware Routing: a MoE router improves when it can see attention
A paper proposes feeding a MoE router with features from attention weights. With the transformer frozen, it gains 3.37 GSM8K points on OLMoE and shortens wrong answers.

Flock offers voluntary buyouts to avoid layoffs
TechCrunch reports Flock is offering staff buyouts: without them, the company says, layoffs would be almost certain. What cutting this way actually signals.

Muse, the Meta assistant that reads Messages, Calendar and Notes
Meta ships Muse with a Mac app and access to Messages, Calendar and Notes. The Verge calls it effective and slightly creepy. The real issue is the permission, not the tone.

India orders caller ID apps to share spam data with telcos
India's telecom authorities want Truecaller and similar apps to hand their spam reports to operators, getting nothing back. What it means for anyone building on third party data.

Tilly Norwood and a press tour the character cannot hold
The AI generated actress started speaking Chinese midway through an interview. The glitch says more about how the tech is sold than about the tech itself.
RETD: fixing emphatic TD when the stepsize is constant
An arXiv paper builds a two state counterexample where emphatic TD contracts in the mean yet diverges when sampled, and proposes RETD as a first order repair.
BioPhys-Bridge: 500 cases tying data, physics and biology
A new arXiv benchmark with 500 biophysics literature cases, 1,517 agent facing tasks and evidence annotation covering units, equations and stated assumptions.
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Hey all, Kartik from Omnara (<a href="https://omnara.com">https://omnara.com</a>) here. We're building an open-source API for running durable agents. You create an agent with an API call, and Omnara runs the agent loop, gives the agent sandboxes to run co
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Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
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Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling
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Public Benefit Fund
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Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on.<p>I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare and with my personal WhatsApp account, so I built this.<p>Imp
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Distillation Defenses
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Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p
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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude
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Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
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Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
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