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OpenAI launches AgentKit beta for building and evaluating agents

OpenAI launched AgentKit beta, a suite with drag-and-drop Agent Builder, Connector Registry for data sources, open-source Guardrails for safety, embeddable ChatKit UI, and upgraded Evals with custom tool calls and graders.

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GLM 4.6

Z.ai released GLM-4.6 on September 29, 2025, expanding the context window from 128K to 200K tokens and improving coding performance, reasoning, and tool use capabilities.

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Tempo: The Blockchain Designed for Payments

Stripe and Paradigm launched Tempo, a blockchain built for stablecoin payments including payroll, remittances, and agent-to-agent transactions.

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Blog Post: The Second Half by Shunyu Yao

OpenAI researcher Shunyu Yao argues that AI's second half will shift from developing new training methods to defining the right problems and evaluation metrics, with pre-training priors mattering more than algorithms.

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Mechanize: How to Fully Automate Software Engineering

Full automation of software engineering requires scaling beyond larger models to include training on real coding data and reinforcement learning in realistic environments, though building AI that can handle high-level planning and coordination remains…

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Video: How AI Image Generation Draws from Physics (Welch Labs)

Welch Labs explains how diffusion models generate images by visualizing the geometry of gradient descent through physics principles.

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Kimi 2 👑 — New open source 1T LLMs

Moonshot released Kimi 2, an open source 1T parameter model using a DeepSeek V3-inspired architecture that achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks while training faster and cheaper than competitors, powered by a custom Muon optimizer…

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Potemkins Understanding in LLM

Researchers identify "Potemkins"—reasoning inconsistencies where LLMs including o3 contradict their own assertions, raising questions about whether systems with such flaws can achieve AGI.

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Anthropic: How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System

Anthropic describes its multi-agent Research system architecture where a lead Claude agent orchestrates parallel subagents to dynamically explore complex queries, achieving 90% speedup through parallelism but at 15× the token cost of standard chats.

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AI Dinner 10.0 at Greycroft, May 21st

AI Dinner 10.0 at Greycroft on May 21st will discuss A2A, Ilya Sutskever's top 30 papers, Alpha Evolve, and the latest AI developments through Socratic dialogue.

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Why the AI wave is different: Cursor's rise from $100M to $300M ARR

Cursor tripled ARR to $300M in months, outpacing GitHub Copilot despite its data advantages, suggesting AI products succeed through pull demand and UX rather than traditional SaaS sales cycles.

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Zeki Data Report: US to become a net exporter of AI talent in 2025

US AI talent net outflows reverse to inflows as domestic layoffs exceed hiring, positioning the country as a net exporter of AI workers by 2025.

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Loops you can take home to your mother

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AI 2027: Month-by-Month Intelligence Explosion Forecast

Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander forecast an intelligence explosion by early 2028 if AI agents achieve autonomous R&D capabilities by 2027, with geopolitical tensions over AI control and safety risks shaping the outcome.

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Joscha Bach: Only a simulation can be conscious

Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues that consciousness can only exist within simulations, not in physical systems, because the brain itself creates a virtual reality model where consciousness emerges as a simulated property.