DeepSeek will be among firms briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday on AI and international security, sources told Reuters, alongside expected participation from OpenAI and Anthropic. Moonshot was also invited; DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng does not plan to attend.
Google released AX, a declarative orchestrator (Task, Workspace, Gateway, Model) for agent fleets on Kubernetes via Agent Substrate. Its HN launch hit 626 points as builders argued the “easier agents” pitch still needs a cluster, ko, and a registry…
AWS released Strands Harness (Apache 2.0) — a ready made general purpose agent for Python/TypeScript that runs locally or in any Linux cloud, with shell/file/web tools, context compaction, memory, and subagents. On matching Claude/GPT models it claims 28% lower token cost vs other harnesses across six benchmarks, and with Fable 5 it scored higher than Claude Code on Terminal Bench 2.1 at 77% lower cost…
In September parliamentary submissions, OpenAI and Anthropic urged Australia to allow a narrow, conditional path for model training on local creative works after Canberra ruled out a broad copyright exemption. Both tied the ask to data centre plans in Sydney and Queensland; a joint committee report is due in November…
A Sept 22 Traictory write up flags a 12 point gap on Terminal Bench 4.0 between xAI’s 38% (xHigh, harness unnamed) and Artificial Analysis’s 26% on mini swe agent. Price stays $2/$6 in Cursor; AA also calls the default xhigh config slow and verbose versus the twice as fast paid tier…
JetBrains today folded Central and related agent tooling into JetBrains Air—an open, multi vendor system spanning IDE agent workflows, Air Teams coordination, and Air Governance. Junie remains the coding agent across surfaces; Agent Client Protocol lets third party agents plug into JetBrains IDEs…
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