Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island
I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that.
How I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E Safeguards
A black-box jailbreak using model-authored state steering, plus an outside-in reconstruction of the safeguards it bypasses.

Why AI Coding Agents Forget — And How ArcticMem Fixes It
Explore ArcticMem, Snowflake’s persistent semantic memory system for AI coding agents. See how dual-tier memory improves benchmark pass rates to 73%.

Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-training
We present Miles v0.1, a full-stack production-ready system for frontier post-training, the successor to our first Miles release [1]. Building upon slime's [16] clean design, Miles optimizes every sta...
Git at any scale · Cursor
Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own. He wanted to replace BitKeeper, the distributed version control system that was being used to develop the Linux Kernel. Of course, the replacement had to be distributed too. The Kernel is an unusual software project; it is extremely decentralized, with many different maintainers for its many different subsystems. A distributed version control system is a natural fit for this workflow.


Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …

Zhuokai Zhao on Twitter / X
Tons of interesting things in the Kimi K3 tech report — here are five algorithm-side techniques that I think either I've never seen before or simply deserve more attention than they're getting.1/ They open-sourced the model but kept the speculative decoding draft model, which…— Zhuokai Zhao (@zhuokaiz) July 30, 2026
A Safe Path to Open Weights
Strategic openness can strengthen AI safety and support broader access as defenses and safety science mature.

Six months at OpenAI
This weeks marks six months since I joined OpenAI and I have several things to say

Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere
I've been working on a new project called Radial, a collaborative coding-agent orchestrator built on atproto (the protocol behind Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere). It's a bit like a team issue tracker that works with your favorite harness/model and turns what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. I'm very excited about it.
On-Policy Distillation
On-policy, dense supervision is a useful tool for distillation

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

Introducing Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering
Palantir is en vogue right now. So of course, folks are cargo-culting elements of its culture, especially “Forward Deployed Engineering”. Lots of companies are trying to imitate this, and some other founders have even reached out to me for advice on whether they, too, should do this model for their startup.
Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot.
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.


ACP v2 is available in Draft - Agent Client Protocol
The ACP v2 protocol documentation and schema are published in draft form for review and testing.
