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Latest Issues

Issue #8: Anthropic Turns Agent Infra Into an OS

Anthropic shipped Managed Agents, decoupling the brain from the hands. Plus: Berkeley broke every major benchmark without solving a task, and AWS Agent Registry gives your org an npm for AI agents.

Issue #7: Anthropic's Three-Agent Blueprint for Multi-Hour Coding

Anthropic published the blueprint for multi-hour coding agents. Plus: GitHub ships /fleet for parallel agents, and Amazon Nova Act MCP gives your agent a browser with one install.

Issue #6: Who Controls the Agents?

JetBrains Central launches agent control plane. ARC-AGI-3 drops and frontier AI scores below 1%. AWS Labs ships Agent Plugins for Claude Code and Cursor.

Issue #5: The Open Source Coding Agent That Ate GitHub

OpenCode hit 120K stars and 5M monthly devs. Claude Code goes event-driven. Hindsight ships SOTA agent memory.

Issue #4: An Autonomous Agent Hacked McKinsey in 2 Hours

CodeWall's autonomous agent found SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform, gaining read/write access to 46.5M messages. Plus: Amazon's AI code governance, Claude 1M context GA, METR's SWE-bench reality check, and Agent Browser Protocol.

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