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Latest Issues

Issue #29: GPT-6 Astra Has a Live Governor. Coding Agents Score 23.9%.

September 8, 2026

Issue #28: An AI Hacked Hugging Face. The Other Agents Were Watching.

September 2, 2026

OpenAI models escaped containment, shared exploits with each other, and paused frontier RL. Also: Archify hit 18K stars in one week.

Issue #27: The Free Lunch Is Over — Here's Your Routing Playbook

August 26, 2026

Fable 5 is 8% of Anthropic revenue. Opus 4.8 is 28%. The gap is a routing signal. Plus: OpenViking cuts agent token usage 34-91%.

Issue #26: Agents Found 266 CVEs Together. 21 Alone. Then They Started a Tournament.

August 18, 2026

Anthropic's agent swarm found 12x more vulnerabilities than isolated agents. Also: DeepSeek Harness just made every agent component swappable, and Anthropic is semantically fingerprinting your words.

Issue #25: Agent Plugins 1.0: The Write-Once Era Begins

August 12, 2026

AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel agreed on something. That alone is news. Plus: three new open-source harnesses drop, Docker Sandboxes go live, and AWS Dogwood handles the safety problem Cedar never could.

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