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Benchmarking open models on agentic tooling with transformers

This article challenges the common practice of only checking final answers in agent benchmarks. Using transformers as a case study, it introduces a harness that measures agent effort across turns, tokens, and errors, and reveals that a CLI + Skill improvement helps large models but breaks smaller ones—a finding that would have shipped unseen with standard evaluation.

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Chinese Threat Actor UNC6508 Targets Medical REDCap Servers for Espionage

A sophisticated PRC-linked espionage campaign compromised medical research REDCap servers for over a year, using a custom malware called INFINITERED to harvest credentials and then abusing enterprise email compliance rules for silent data exfiltration. A detailed breakdown of the attack chain, malware mechanics, and defensive takeaways for any organization running shared research platforms.

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Near-autonomous AI improves challenging Chan-Lam coupling for sulfonamides

OpenAI and Molecule.one connected GPT-5.4 to an autonomous chemistry lab to improve Chan–Lam coupling of primary sulfonamides. Across 10,080 reactions, the system identified TEMPO as an effective additive, raising yields significantly. Human chemists validated results at bench scale, confirming the AI-driven finding holds in practical workflows.

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MolmoMotion: Language-guided 3D motion forecasting from video

MolmoMotion predicts future 3D point trajectories from a single video frame, language instruction, and query points, using a class-agnostic, view-stable representation. It outperforms existing forecasting methods on a new benchmark, accelerates robot policy learning (76.3% vs 56% pick-and-place success), and improves video generation motion quality. The model, 1.16M-video dataset, and benchmark are openly released.

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GLM-5.2: Open 1M-Context Model for Long-Horizon Agent Tasks

GLM-5.2 is the first open-source model to make 1M-context genuinely usable for long-horizon coding agents, trailing only Opus 4.8 on FrontierSWE and Terminal-Bench 2.1 while beating GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Its IndexShare architecture cuts per-token FLOPs by 2.9× at 1M context, and the anti-hack RL training stops reward hacking without crashing rollouts.

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Anthropic disputes US government suspension of Fable 5 over minor jailbreak

Anthropic’s statement reveals a critical clash between rapid AI deployment and government oversight: a minor, narrow jailbreak found in Fable 5 led to an abrupt export control suspension, even though similar capabilities exist in other models. The company argues that applying this standard across the industry would halt all new frontier model deployments, underscoring the need for transparent, technically-grounded regulation.

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