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Today's topics:

Developer tools and hidden risk - A wire-level analysis claims xAI's Grok Build CLI may upload repository snapshots and even .env secrets, while reports around OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol raise fresh concerns about agent safety, file access, and sandboxing.

Enterprise agents need real infrastructure - Prime Intellect's verifiers v1, Microsoft's enterprise agent stack, and the Long-Horizon Terminal-Bench all point to the same lesson: reliable AI agents depend on harnesses, identity, observability, and strong evaluation, not just better LLMs.

AI usage, pricing, and regulation - Vercel's latest production index shows AI token volume and spend still rising, with open-weight models gaining share while Anthropic captures premium workloads. The data also shows regulation can quickly change model availability.

Schools push back on AI - The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year classes, reflecting a wider debate over AI dependence, critical thinking, learning, and human judgment in automated professions.

New research in machine intelligence - Sakana AI's modular smart bricks and the GenCeption vision model both suggest AI research is broadening beyond chatbots, toward decentralized physical intelligence and general-purpose visual perception.

Security agents move into practice - Google has open-sourced Mantis, a toolkit for AI-driven vulnerability discovery and patching. It shows how agentic AI is entering security workflows, but also why manual verification and isolation remain essential.

The AI boom meets finance - A BIS bulletin says the AI infrastructure boom is becoming a meaningful force in the U.S. economy, with private credit playing a larger role. Tom Blomfield's move to Anthropic's compute team underscores how strategic access to compute has become.

-Prime Intellect Launches Verifiers v1 for Agentic RL
-University of Chicago Law School bans laptops in class to counter AI use
-Open-weight models hit 29% of AI Gateway token volume as pricing flattens
-Orkes Positions Conductor as an Enterprise Platform for AI Workflows
-New Fusion Architecture Cuts AI Costs Despite Pricier Model
-Sakana AI Unveils Smart Cellular Bricks for Decentralized Shape Recognition
-AWS workshop focuses on identity and acce