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Today's topics:

Agent traffic explodes online - HUMAN Security reports agentic automation surging and shifting into high-value, post-login flows—keywords: bot traffic, account takeover, scraping, fraud, agentic AI.

Vercel replaces long-lived tokens - Vercel Connect swaps stored environment secrets for short-lived, task-scoped credentials via OIDC—keywords: secretless auth, least privilege, token rotation, Slack, GitHub.

Vercel’s eve agent framework - Vercel’s open-source eve framework standardizes production agent ops with durable runs, approvals, and tracing—keywords: agent runtime, OpenTelemetry, sandboxing, evals, MCP.

LLMs struggle with bug triage - A large study finds bigger context and more “reasoning” don’t reliably solve real vulns end-to-end—keywords: vulnerability triage, context windows, effort tuning, ensemble judging.

OpenAI market share dips - Sensor Tower says ChatGPT fell below 50% share while Gemini and Claude gain, signaling a maturing assistant market—keywords: MAU, churn, monetization, ads, competition.

ChatGPT adds better scheduling - ChatGPT’s updated Scheduled tasks aims to make recurring automations more dependable across web and mobile—keywords: workflow automation, task management, reliability, productivity.

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI - Top AI researcher Noam Shazeer moving to OpenAI underscores the continuing talent race among major labs—keywords: hiring, research leadership, frontier models, competition.

Mistral doubles down open-weights - Mistral previews a new “fat but sparse” open-weight model and emphasizes sovereignty-friendly deployment—keywords: open weights, VPC, auditability, Europe, independence.

Small model claims big reasoning - Weibo’s open-source VibeThinker-3B claims near-flagship reasoning on benchmarks, fueling debate over real-world generalization—keywords: 3B model, benchmarks, compression, math, coding.

AI policy fight over Anthropic - EFF argues U.S. policy targeted Anthropic with punitive measures after it resisted government demands—keywords: First Amendment, export controls, retaliation, AI regulation, national security.

Amazon probes employee activism - Amazon investigating employees after city-council testimony highlights tensions around data centers and worker speech—keywords: activism, data centers, environmental impact, HR, retaliation claims.

NVIDIA pushes XR agent plumbing - NVIDIA XR AI offers open-source infrastructure for low-latency multimodal agents in AR/XR settings—keywords: XR, multimodal, GPU backend, MCP, real-time media.

AllenAI predicts future 3D motion - AllenAI’s MolmoMotion forecasts object-centric 3D point trajectories,