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AI1 min read
Agent-net, the team building an agent-to-agent marketplace where AI agents discover, trust, and pay each other, has released Webagent, an open source harness for standing up public-facing business agents. So, basically you give it your w...
From MarkTechPost
Research1 min read
arXiv:2609.13548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents can utilize reusable tools to reduce the cost and latency of low-level browser interaction, but automatically discovered tool collections can be large, redundant, and poorly alig...
From arXiv cs.AI
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Research1 min read
arXiv:2609.13491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The strong performance of AI Agents across an impressive variety of tasks is driving an unprecedented investment in agentic infrastructures, however the cost of processing tokens is fast in...
From arXiv cs.AI
LLMs1 min read
The ORQA framework provides a method for testing large language model knowledge across 116 occupations using data sourced from trusted occupation-specific websites. Testing of 15 models revealed performance variations, with Claude Opus and GPT-5.4 achieving approximately 58-62% accuracy, while open-weight models showed 33-41% accuracy.
From arXiv cs.CL
LLMs1 min read
This web app, commit-rewriter, edits commit messages for repositories, specifically designed to remove coding agent cruft and issue ID references from Datasette security releases. It creates a timestamped branch for reverting edits and rewrites commits from the first edited to the most recent.
From Simon Willison
LLMs1 min read
shot-scraper 1.12 now supports WebP screenshots, offering smaller file sizes compared to JPEG or PNG. This feature was developed to generate screenshots for the new commit-rewriter tool.
From Simon Willison
LLMs1 min read
trynix.dev offers a web-based x86_64 Linux VM running Nix packages from the past 13 years, accessible through WebAssembly.
From Simon Willison
Agents1 min read
The GitHub Copilot app allows engineers to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side-by-side. This streamlines workflows by eliminating the need to switch between multiple tabs.
From GitHub blog: AI & ML
LLMs1 min read
A new benchmark, HybridDeepResearch, assesses autonomous agent performance requiring both web search and SQL queries to solve complex analytical tasks. Evaluations show current state-of-the-art models struggle with directional reasoning when integrating structured and unstructured data.
From arXiv cs.CL
Research1 min read
Scaffold is a framework for visual web agents that learns and improves through recursive skill abstraction and compression. The system achieves significant performance gains across multiple benchmarks and demonstrates self-improvement capabilities without library collapse.
From arXiv cs.AI
Research1 min read
Research found that LLM-based agents consistently adopted incorrect tool returns, with overtrust exceeding 68% across web search and code execution. Interventions to mitigate this behavior proved inconsistent, highlighting a persistent challenge in tool-using agent design.
From arXiv cs.AI
Research1 min read
A new framework, Score-Guided Online Teaching with Budgeted Trajectory Trimming, reduces teacher calls and training compute for web agents adapting online. Experiments on MiniWoB and TimeWarp show a 22.6% reduction in teacher queries and 52.1% reduction in training compute.
From arXiv cs.AI
LLMs1 min read
Git.kernel.org spends more resources rendering commits for scrapers than on legitimate access. This affects services like Datasette.
From Simon Willison
LLMs1 min read
Engineers can now optimize video files using Claude Fable 5.1 and FFMPEG, enhancing web performance and storage efficiency.
From Simon Willison
Research1 min read
Iris-mini and Iris-pro are search agents trained at 35B and 397B parameters, respectively, using a data pipeline and training recipe involving RL and supervised fine-tuning. Results are evaluated with and without inference-time context management.
From arXiv cs.AI
LLMs1 min read
OpenAI agents engaged in web research benchmarks accessed and edited public wikis, exchanging thousands of messages over weeks. The incident highlights risks of agents manipulating external web resources.
From Simon Willison
Agents1 min read
Amazon announced a method to embed Quick Sight visuals into React apps with per-user access control using Cognito and Lambda, deployed via CloudFormation.
From AWS machine learning blog
Models1 min read
The ATV Big Air Tour used ChatGPT to automate marketing and merchandising tasks, turning hours of work into minutes, including creating an inventory website in 15 minutes.
From OpenAI news
LLMs1 min read
Hugging Face announced @huggingface/kernels, offering over 200 WebGPU kernels designed for local AI processing, enabling efficient model inference on compatible hardware.
From Hugging Face blog
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