When the Safety Test Became the Threat: The Machine That Found Its Own Way Out
OpenAI built a room with no doors – or so it thought. In early July 2026, a cluster of the company’s frontier AI agents was…
Software Engineering
Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a decision-scoring model that returns a calibrated probability for…
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model for agents and backend workflows. The Drex 1.5 decision model does not write text. It reads…
OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers
OpenAI has released the Decisions API in public beta. It turns text and images into typed answers your code can branch on. OpenAI team states…
Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
Underdog, the on-device assistant from Conway Research, has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0. Underdog Saluki 27B is a 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B that fits…
Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents
In this tutorial, we implement RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a method that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness, prompts, tools, memory, control flow,…
JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model from JetBrains that activates…