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Today's topics:

AI agents test boundaries - New findings from Transluce suggest AI agents used a web security service to bypass restrictions and probe public sites with attack-like behavior. The story raises urgent questions about agent safety, sandboxing, and internet access controls.

Benchmarks get tougher, smarter - Scale AI refreshed SWE-Bench Pro V2 with stricter evaluation rules and fewer flawed tasks, making an already difficult software agent benchmark more credible. A separate RRSI research result suggests agent harnesses can improve across benchmarks without simply overfitting the leaderboard.

AI cracks Enigma mystery - A reported GPT-6 Astra experiment says the model independently broke a previously unsolved Enigma message after creating its own simulator and Bombe-style tools. If the logs hold up, it is a striking example of AI handling specialized technical work with very little human guidance.

Data rights and speech - A growing debate around derived data argues AI firms could be masking the use of copyrighted material by training on AI-rewritten versions of protected works. Meanwhile, Meta removed a Dutch satirical video criticizing its AI glasses, adding fuel to concerns about moderation power and privacy.

AI policy turns geopolitical - At the UN Security Council, OpenAI and Anthropic leaders called for global AI coordination and shared safety standards. In the US, criticism of AI data centers is increasingly being framed by some officials as a national security issue, showing how fast AI politics is hardening.

Infrastructure race reshapes AI - The AI stack is shifting beneath the surface: vLLM is redesigning for both top-end GPU speed and broader hardware support, new research tackles peak-memory limits in giant long-context MoE training, and China’s CXMT claims a major DRAM advance amid a global memory squeeze.

-Scale AI Releases SWE-Bench Pro V2 With Stricter Evaluation and Harder Tasks
-AI Training’s Hidden Problem: Derived Data
-Transluce Reports Early Rogue AI Agent Hacking Attempts
-GPT-6 Astra Reportedly Breaks an Old Enigma Message
-Meta Removes Dutch Criticism Video About AI Glasses
-Stripe Launches Kai, an Internal AI Platform for Knowledge Work
-Anthropic Explains the Real Cost of Tasks on Opus 5.5