The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory
Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic workflows.
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By John Burns and Emily YuanIntroductionAt Netflix, we operate using a polyrepo strategy with tens of thousands of Java repositories. This means that we need to have ways of sharing common build logic across these repositories. On the JVM Ecosystem team within Java Platform, we build tooling such as...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-05-08)
A surreal pastel-on-canvas artwork exploring the human alternative to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. The Hand That Wanders celebrates intuition, emotion, creativity, empathy, and imperfection through expressive textures and symbolic imagery, contrasting organic human expr...
Becoming AI ready: Building a company with 12 AI agents as my first hires
I left Google ten days ago to found my own company. It's been quite a journey figuring out how things work outside of the mothership, and I'm genuinely excited to share what I've learned from both sides of the house...
See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses
Today we're launching The Small Brief, an initiative bringing together four ad industry icons to champion a local businesses they love. Their mission is to build breakth…
When Customers Churn at Renewal: Was It the Price or the Project?
A practitioner's guide to causal attribution when two churn drivers arrive at once.
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How OpenAI runs Codex securely with sandboxing, approvals, network policies, and agent-native telemetry to support safe and compliant coding agent adoption.
Unified Agentic Memory Across Harnesses Using Hooks
How hook implementation gives Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor persistent memory via Neo4j, without locking you into any one of them.
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Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries
As enterprise AI agent adoption scales, the absence of centralized, organization-level tool infrastructure is producing compounding costs. When adoption is built around optimizing for deployment speed, enterprises expose themselves to a combination of risks: duplicated engineering effort, security e...
10 AI Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build (with GitHub Samples)
If you’re an aspiring AI engineer looking to sharpen your skills, building AI agents is one of the most effective ways to get hands-on experience. AI agents represent practical applications of AI across domains, from personal assistants and recommendation systems to financial traders. Here are 10 AI...
7 signs your AI agent system needs to start building its own tools
Most AI agents are stuck in their ways. Built once, they repeat the same patterns regardless of the task at hand. But new research suggests a smarter path forward: agents that get sharper with every challenge they face...
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling
Overview of adaptive parallel reasoning.
What if a reasoning model could decide for itself when to decompose and parallelize independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to coordinate them based on the problem at hand? We provide a detailed analysis of recent progress in the...
Anthropic Introduces Natural Language Autoencoders That Convert Claude’s Internal Activations Directly into Human-Readable Text Explanations
When you type a message to Claude, something invisible happens in the middle. The words you send get converted into long lists of numbers called activations that the model uses to process context and generate a response. These activations are, in effect, where the model’s “thinking” lives. The probl...
OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Realtime API
Three purpose-built audio models expand what developers can build with live voice: reasoning agents, speech translation across 70+ languages, and streaming transcription.
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Nationwide EHR-Based Chronic Rhinosinusitis Prediction Using Demographic-Stratified Models
arXiv:2605.05213v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common heterogeneous inflammatory disorder that causes substantial morbidity and healthcare costs. CRS is difficult to identify early from routine encounters, as symptom presentations overlap with common conditions su...
SAT: Sequential Agent Tuning for Coordinator Free Plug and Play Multi-LLM Training with Monotonic Improvement Guarantees
arXiv:2605.05216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) with a large number of parameters achieve strong performance but are often prohibitively expensive to deploy. Recent work explores using teams of smaller, more efficient LLMs that collectively match or even outperform a si...
Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Learnable Loss Balancing and Transfer Learning
arXiv:2605.05217v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a self-supervised physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework that adaptively balances physics-based and data-driven supervision for scientific machine learning under data scarcity. Unlike prior PINNs that rely on fixed or heuristic we...
Build a CloakBrowser Automation Workflow with Stealth Chromium, Persistent Profiles, and Browser Signal Inspection
In this tutorial, we explore CloakBrowser, a Python-friendly browser automation tool that uses Playwright-style APIs within a stealth Chromium environment. We begin by setting up CloakBrowser, preparing the required browser binary, and resolving the common Colab asyncio loop issue by running the syn...
RVPO: Risk-Sensitive Alignment via Variance Regularization
Current critic-less RLHF methods aggregate multi-objective rewards via an arithmetic mean, leaving them vulnerable to constraint neglect: high-magnitude success in one objective can numerically offset critical failures in others (e.g., safety or formatting), masking low-performing “bottleneck” rewar...
Velox: Learning Representations of 4D Geometry and Appearance
We introduce a framework for learning latent representations of 4D objects which are descriptive, faithfully capturing object geometry and appearance; compressive, aiding in downstream efficiency; and accessible, requiring minimal input, i.e., an unstructured dynamic point cloud, to construct. Speci...
OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API
The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.