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Signals for 2026-08-04

Published 2026-08-04T08:16+02:00

10 geselecteerde signalen uit de lokale hybride Daily Signal Brief pipeline.

Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)

Simon Willison

My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) — Hacker News. One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works.

#builder #tooling-runtime

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review AI

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here.

#agent #agentic-workflows #evals

onepot-Bench 0: towards lab-aware in silico chemistry benchmarks

arXiv reasoning / agents / evals

Language models are playing an increasingly important role in laboratory science, performing tasks such as experiment planning, execution, and post-hoc analysis. However, precisely measuring their abilities is difficult, as scientific capabilities require a mixture of both problem-solving skills and domain-specific intuition.

#agent #evals #research-evals

SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code

arXiv reasoning / agents / evals

Real-world software development requires coding agents to operate in shared workspaces where users may inspect and modify code during an ongoing task, yet existing repository-level benchmarks typically evaluate agents working alone or restrict user participation to messages. This leads us to ask: how do coding agents understand and respond to code changes in a shared workspace?

#agent #evals #research-evals

LiveMem: Maintaining Memory State Continuity in Long-Running LLM Inference

arXiv reasoning / agents / evals

Long-running assistants and agents consume interaction streams that eventually outgrow the context. Existing context retention, summarization, and retrieval preserve access to selected history, but do not provide a persistent state over the full lifecycle when working context changes.

#agent #evals #research-evals

Don't be a meat proxy

Simon Willison

Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI.

#agentic-workflows

Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart

The Decoder

Two research teams independently solved the same open quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, submitting their papers just three hours apart. "If someone mentions an open problem, the first thing is to see if GPT solves it," says one of the researchers.

#evals #research-evals

Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters

The Decoder

Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release the weights next week.

#evals #research-evals

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

TechCrunch AI

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

#implementation #implementation-adoption

Congress’ favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

TechCrunch AI

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

#builder #tooling-runtime