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The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable Demystifying Anthropic's J-Space: A Mathematical Primer OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand What SHAP Can't Explain About Agentic AI Fraud How to 5x Your Communication Effectiveness with Claude Code

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At the top of the brief: The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable; Demystifying Anthropic's J-Space: A Mathematical Primer; OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT.

Our top story today: The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable. Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, a fresh Fields Medal recipient, has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI). The article The Mathematical AI Safety Institute wants to prove AI is safe the way cryptographers prove codes are unbreakable appeared first on The Decoder .

In our next story: Demystifying Anthropic's J-Space: A Mathematical Primer. Clarifying the math behind Anthropic’s representation workspace The post Demystifying Anthropic's J-Space: A Mathematical Primer appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Elsewhere in the sector: OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT. OpenAI is releasing the Agents API as a public beta. It lets developers build cloud agents that run autonomously for hours, execute code, and hand off tasks to sub-agents. There are no extra fees beyond token usage. Cloudflare, Vercel, and Oracle offer additional sandbox environments. The article OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .

Turning now to another development: Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers. A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service. The article Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers appeared first on The Decoder .

Also on the grid: Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation. Google Research has released ToolGrad, an ACL 2026 Findings framework that inverts tool-use dataset generation: it builds a verified API chain first, then writes the matching user query. Guided by textual "gradients" from a 4-module propose-execute-select-update loop, ToolGrad reaches a 99.8% pass rate on ToolBench versus 63.8% for DFS search. Gemma-3-12B fine-tuned on only 500 samples scores 83.1 on BFCL, next to Gemini 2.5 Pro at 83.2. Code, dataset, and models are public under Apache-2.0. The post Google...

In operations news: Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages. Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model built for machine translation across 50 languages. It uses 25B of its 218B parameters per token and scores 83.6 on Cohere's WMT26 evaluation. Weights are free for non-commercial use, with commercial access through Cohere Model Vault or RWS Language Weaver. The post Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Looking next at deployment signals: Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration. Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 models built on the same learned orchestration architecture. Fugu Max routes tasks to lean open and specialized models, including NVIDIA Nemotron, at $2/$6 per 1M tokens. Fugu Ultra v2 targets peak capability, scoring 48.3 on Chartography and 74.3 on DeepSWE. The post Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Another item on the watchlist: Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year. Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

In our next story: Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his. Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.

Elsewhere in the sector: OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand. The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

Turning now to another development: What SHAP Can't Explain About Agentic AI Fraud. Why autonomous agents expose a new explainability problem in fraud detection The post What SHAP Can't Explain About Agentic AI Fraud appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Finally today: How to 5x Your Communication Effectiveness with Claude Code. Better understand the intent of your coding agents The post How to 5x Your Communication Effectiveness with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

TechCrunch AI | 2h ago | Score 109.2877

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land...

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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

THE DECODER | 3h ago | Score 114.9234

Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judging results. Reward hacking and the speed of light add further limits. Vinyals now wants to tackle these bottlenecks...

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Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous

THE DECODER | 3h ago | Score 112.104

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews before any further training or deployment. US President Trump disagrees and wants to keep outpacing China in the AI race. The article Deep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous...

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Coding Agents Don't Need Longer History — They Need Intent Continuity

Towards Data Science | 5h ago | Score 104.3471

I built a system that automatically discovers, verifies, and applies relevant requirements from earlier interactions without asking the user where they came from. The post Coding Agents Don't Need Longer History — They Need Intent Continuity appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Software Design in the Age of AI

Towards Data Science | 7h ago | Score 102.2642

Why AI coding makes software design more important The post Software Design in the Age of AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data

THE DECODER | 7h ago | Score 116.2005

Anthropic's new threat intelligence report documents eight months of Claude abuse. Chinese AI labs like Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI relayed requests en masse or extracted training data, with Qwen alone accounting for more than 151 million exchanges. Actors also used Claude for missile software, autonomous kamikaze drones, and nationwide surveillance systems. The article How hackers used Claude...

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OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress

THE DECODER | 9h ago | Score 104.6275

OpenAI wants to know from members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, according to several people familiar with the matter. The article OpenAI floats a shared AI slowdown, takes it to Congress appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT

THE DECODER | 13h ago | Score 102.3602

OpenAI is releasing the Agents API as a public beta. It lets developers build cloud agents that run autonomously for hours, execute code, and hand off tasks to sub-agents. There are no extra fees beyond token usage. Cloudflare, Vercel, and Oracle offer additional sandbox environments. The article OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .

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Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages

MarkTechPost | 14h ago | Score 106.8671

Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model built for machine translation across 50 languages. It uses 25B of its 218B parameters per token and scores 83.6 on Cohere's WMT26 evaluation. Weights are free for non-commercial use, with commercial access through Cohere Model Vault or RWS Language Weaver. The post Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model...

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Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration

MarkTechPost | 14h ago | Score 106.3413

Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 models built on the same learned orchestration architecture. Fugu Max routes tasks to lean open and specialized models, including NVIDIA Nemotron, at $2/$6 per 1M tokens. Fugu Ultra v2 targets peak capability, scoring 48.3 on Chartography and 74.3 on DeepSWE. The post Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration...

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