Daily digest / 16 October 2026
A coding agent combines a large language model (LLM) with a harness that plans, edits, and executes code. We study Cortex, a supervisory layer for pre-execution governance, requirement tracking, and iterative validation and repair. We formalize requirement closure on a finite …
With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.
General Science
AI agents are changing how software gets built. Developers have gone from writing every line of code by hand to directing agents that write most of the code. As... AI agents are changing how software gets built. Developers have gone from writing every line of code by hand to d…
The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
When you’re building a fine-tuning dataset, finding a mix of subject domains that yields a high-performing model can require expensive trial and error, because fine-tuned performance also depends on the quality of the individual examples.
Developers have warmed to the economics and security of local models, either as an alternative or a complement to the cloud.
Mistral’s latest model is its largest and most capable, and the most powerful yet released by a European company.
Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s fastest and least expensive model gets a long-awaited update.
The gulf between LLM performance on verifiable tasks vs. unverifiable tasks that require judgement is larger than most people realize.
The Batch News & Insights: The gulf between LLM performance on verifiable tasks vs. unverifiable tasks that require judgement is larger than most people realize.
Identity alone doesn't guarantee a bot will behave responsibly. We are introducing a system to continuously evaluate whether Verified bots honor site preferences, like robots.txt and HTTP 429s, ensuring they remain accountable over time.
Learn about AI voice agent integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and more. Discover how agents read and update records mid-call and set up tools.
ElevenLabs renewed its ISO, SOC 2, and PCI DSS certifications and added SOC 2 Type I and FedRAMP 20x Class A for enterprise trust.
NTT Docomo Business is piloting an ElevenAgents voice platform in Fukushima to support older residents with natural Japanese speech. (137 characters)
Nick Cammarata out of nowhere with some major claims!
Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.
Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.
Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 is the top open-weight model on Epoch’s Cyber ECI, scoring where the closed-weight frontier stood 6–7 months earlier.
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