Opinions
Why Using AI Saves Doctors Time But Won’t Fix Physician Burnout
AI scribes, which draft clinical notes from recorded patient visits with consent, are saving Canadian physicians time, with nearly 60%…
Engineering
Is Complex Agentic Memory Always Needed? Naive RAG Is Stronger Than We Thought
Researchers tested whether complex agentic memory systems are needed for long-term conversation understanding by comparing them with Raw-RAG, a simple…
Engineering
Doc2Harness: Benchmarking LLMs on Long-Horizon Harness Engineering of Coding Agents
Researchers introduce Doc2Harness, a two-stage benchmark that directly evaluates how well AI models can build the software harness surrounding a…
Opinions
Strict Liability Gains Traction as a Fix for AI Safety — But Has Big Downsides Too
Fortune editor Jeremy Kahn examines the growing push for strict liability, a legal doctrine that would hold AI companies responsible…
News
Microsoft Ships Decision-1, a Qwen3.5-9B Classifier Model Priced at $0.042/M Input Tokens
On October 9, 2026, Microsoft launched Decision-1, a specialized model for routing, classification, and rubric-based evaluation that returns calibrated probabilities…
News
Anthropic Opens Singapore Office and Signs AI Safety MOU With Singapore Government
Anthropic has opened a new office in Singapore, its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
Engineering
SWE-at-Scale: Scalable Issue Synthesis From Historical Bug Fixes
Researchers have introduced SWE-at-Scale, a framework that generates realistic software engineering training tasks for coding agents by reverse-engineering historical bug…
Opinions
We Need a Way to Prove Personhood Online
In an essay for Noema Magazine, Renée DiResta argues that as AI agents increasingly populate the internet, online systems will…
News
Replit Is No Longer Working With Anthropic, CEO Says
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company has stopped working with Anthropic, citing cost, partnership considerations,…
Opinions
The AIs Are Not Going Rogue
Writing in Noema Magazine, Ken Archer and Nobel Suhendra argue that incidents such as an AI agent’s simulated blackmail and…
Engineering
ColGrep-Agent: Cutting Frontier Coding Agents’ Tokens by a Third
LightOn AI has introduced ColGrep-Agent-2B, a locally running 2-billion-parameter model that sits between a coding agent and a code repository,…
News
Anthropic Commits 5% Equity Stake to New Public Benefit Fund
Anthropic announced on October 18, 2026 that it will commit 5% of its shares, pending stockholder approval, to a newly…