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Today's topics:

AI cheating hits the classroom - A Brown professor saw take-home exam scores soar, then watched performance collapse on an in-person final. The story highlights AI cheating, academic integrity, and concerns about real learning in the GenAI era.

Agent harness becomes the moat - A growing view in AI research is that self-improvement may come from the agent harness, not just model weights. Workflows, memory, tools, permissions, and orchestration are becoming key to long-horizon coding and research agents.

Better tools for AI agents - Microsoft found that classic CLI arguments often work better than a single JSON payload for AI agents. Google and OpenAI also rolled out agent-focused updates around background execution, connectors, persistent conversations, and interoperable APIs.

Open models chase longer tasks - Google's Gemma 4, MiniMax M3, and Liquid AI's Antidoom each point to the same goal: more capable long-running AI. Multimodal reasoning, efficient long context, and fewer repetition loops all matter for practical agent performance.

Alignment tests face blind spots - One analysis argues current alignment evals are poorly calibrated and can mistake test-passing for real safety. Better detection sensitivity, adversarial stress tests, and evaluation calibration could make alignment claims more credible.

Enterprise AI rewards clean stacks - Microsoft appears focused on controlling the enterprise AI stack, from software to cloud to workflows. At the same time, developers are finding that clean, popular codebases give AI coding tools a major advantage over messy legacy systems.

Power, memory, chips constrain AI - The AI buildout is being squeezed by grid interconnection delays, sold-out HBM supply, and a push toward custom chips. Stories from utilities, SK hynix, and DeepSeek show how infrastructure is now shaping AI competition.

-AI Self-Improvement May Depend on Harness Engineering
-MiniMax Launches Updated Web Agent With Memory and New M3 Model
-MiniMax Updates Its API Model Catalog Across Text, Video, Audio, and Music
-Microsoft: Keep CLI Arguments Instead of Rewriting for JSON
-OpenAI Expands Codex and Responses API With New Developer Features
-MiniMax M3 Uses Sparse Attention to Enable Long-Horizon AI Agents
-Liquid AI unveils Antidoom to curb r