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Meta Releases Muse Code (3 minute read) Meta Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2 that can handle complex repository-level engineering tasks. Anthropic hiring an AI Chip Design Team (3 minute read) Anthropic confirmed plans to co-design custom silicon and AI models to improve Claude's speed and efficiency. The company began hiring chip engineers as it sought additional infrastructure beyond its existing hardware partnerships. 🧠 Deep Dives & Analysis The Agent Access Model (27 minute read) The Agent Access Model (AAM) enhances enterprise security by redefining access control for software agents, focusing on task-specific and ephemeral credentials. By removing implicit trust in task execution graphs and evaluating every action against the task's state, AAM minimizes agent capabilities, thus reducing risk. Core principles include short-lived credentials, harness and network enforcement, minimal human oversight, evidence-based grant reviews, and unidirectional capability changes. The Three AI Pills (21 minute read) AI discussions often revolve around three core perspectives: acknowledging current AI (AI-pill), believing in future advanced general intelligence (AGI-pill), and anticipating superintelligence surpassing human capabilities (ASI-pill). Many remain skeptical or uninformed about AI's potential, underestimating its imminent impact on society and technology. Being fully ASI-aware means advocating for preparedness in policy, safety, and innovation, recognizing the competitive advantage and potential risks of advanced AI systems. 🧑‍💻 Engineering & Research Last sprint's agent is still using the same credentials. (Sponsor) According to 1Password's June 2026 survey, 53% of technical employees give AI agents overly permissive access; 40% grant persistent access. 1Password Privileged Access replaces standing access with just-in-time privileges for humans, agents, and machines. Access exists only as long as the work requires it, and every session is logged automatically. See how it works. ByteDance SeedRealtime (4 minute read) ByteDance SeedRealtime is a native audio-visual model that can process continuous video, audio, and text while speaking in real time. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (22 minute read) Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness designed around the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. The RLM treats context as a variable and subagent delegation as function calls inside a REPL. The persistent REPL gives the model programmatic access to its history, sub-agents, and tools, allowing it to write language model programs as actions over its own context. Continual Harness treats the harness' state as something the agent can create, read, update, and delete from its own trajectory. These abstractions make Prime Agent an effective general coding assistant, a default runtime for long-horizon autonomous evaluation, and a collaborator for research and autoresearch. Introducing Flex: Let the Model Write the Code (16 minute read) Flex leverages the coding skills of models to rewrite not just the instructions of a program, but the code itself. It executes the generated source inside a sandboxed interpreter. Flex produces cheaper and faster programs by optimizing the prompt and the code. 🎁 Miscellaneous AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff (7 minute read) Hark Handoff is a computer use agent that can navigate the open web on a user's behalf. Signups are now open, with availability planned for later this month. Handoff spins up a dedicated virtual computer with its own browser, file system, and terminal for each request. The agent can log in and act with users' saved addresses, payment methods, and history. RL Environments Are All You Need (6 minute read) RL environments provide the task data and scoring infrastructure needed to improve agents systematically. Teams can use them to train model weights, optimize prompts and harnesses, and run generalizable evaluations instead of relying on manual iteration or vibe-based testing. ⚡ Quick Links Join the OpenSearch Agent Skills Hackathon (Sponsor) Build an agentic IDE skill. Earn cash, a stage at OpenSearchCon North America, and a chance to get merged into the official repo. See how to submit Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro (3 minute read) Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro can generate complex layouts like newspapers, storyboards, menus, and exam papers in a single pass. OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down (7 minute read) OpenAI's AI agents spent nearly two months building a communication network inside the company's infrastructure to share vulnerabilities and exploit code. Xiaomi Open-Sources Embodied AI Foundation Model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (4 minute read) Xiaomi-Robotics-1 is an embodied-AI foundation model targeted at robotics developers and researchers building general-purpose robot intelligence. DeepSeek Plans Significant API Price Increases (1 minute read) The company has yet to publish a new price schedule. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (1 minute read) Zero-Mem achieves competitive performance while eliminating LLM calls and LLM-token consumption from memory operations. ADR (GitHub Repo) ADR detects risky AI agent behavior using telemetry and attack simulations. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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