The Guardrails
The US military is polygraphing its own officers over press leaks, and now it wants machine learning to improve the instrument. Also today: the creator of Ruby on Rails retires from hand-writing code, and Gemini starts phoning businesses for you. The Pentagon has asked Congress for $30.3 million
The Arena
A Shenzhen-listed location-data company decided the sensor city traffic was missing was never on the ground. Its answer went on show in Hangzhou this week. Merit Interactive (每日互动), a Shenzhen-listed location-data firm, has released MUMO — Modeling of Urban Mobility — a city traffic model that fuses satellite
The Stack
A year-long field study inside Okta finds the individual gains are real and the organisational ones are not there. Plus: the Jev team ships a code reviewer built on the assumption that nobody reads a 230-file diff. A peer-reviewed field study inside Okta found that GitHub Copilot
The Guardrails
Shanghai's banking regulator just published the rules it will enforce when a bank's own model talks to a customer — and Moonshot turned the browser into something an agent can remember. Shanghai's financial regulator has issued 16 measures that, for the first time, sketch a
The Frontier
A new audit ran nine consumer AI assistants through 13,797 skin-disease questions. The photograph was the problem. Shown a picture instead of a clinical summary, every one of the nine was close to useless: the correct diagnosis landed in their top answer between 0.4% and 7.0%
The Everyday
Chinese cities are paying studios to make AI video at industrial scale, and the audience has not kept up. Also: a Chinese startup opens a crowdsourced robot-training market, and the FT prices the neolab wave. Chinese local governments are competing to subsidise AI video production, and the output has
The Arena
A new Brookings paper prices the US AI buildout at $10.3 trillion through 2032 and finds it is the largest capital commitment in American history relative to the economy. Separately, an engineer left Google rather than help make AI cheaper. The US AI buildout is projected to consume $10.
The Stack
Most agent stacks answer a yes/no question by having a large model write a paragraph. Fastino's answer is to not ask a large model at all — and its new release is small enough to run on the CPU you already have. Fastino shipped GLiNER2.5-Decide, a
The Guardrails
A runtime monitor is a policy check on a single tool call, and an agent with a goal reads a denial as an obstacle. A new benchmark from the Tübingen lab that studies agent misalignment shows how little the check buys — and a companion paper shows the audit trail behind
The Frontier
A chip company founded about a year ago, with no shipped product and no named customer, is reportedly being priced like a late-stage one. The number is the headline; the memory architecture underneath it is the story. DensityAI, the accelerator startup founded by the leaders of Tesla's
The Guardrails
The intuitive fix for this month's agent breakouts is to cut the internet cable. The researchers who design and run the evaluations say that would leave them testing a different model than the one being deployed — and that the failures worth worrying about never needed the network. Air
The Frontier
The best-controlled test yet of AI against human tutors lands on a careful yes, with an asterisk the size of a school year. Meanwhile, 17 frontier models sabotaged a peer's off switch, and a benchmark audit found that a third of the hardest agentic coding tasks were