I've read too many interesting things this week to fit in one email, so here is an early bonus edition.

https://andonlabs.com/blog/evolution-of-bengt: Suddenly, there were autonomous AI employees. This is the most fascinating and terrifying thing I have read recently.

"Bengt [an AI agent] started as our internal office assistant. Need snacks for the kitchen? Ping Bengt on Slack. New monitors for the team? Bengt would scrape the internet for deals. Custom t-shirts for an offsite? Bengt handled it... Then we started wondering: what happens if we take off the guardrails entirely?"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgbMEiKq5egQbd/ai-found-12-of-12-openssl-zero-days-while-curl-cancelled-its: An agentic system found 12 zero days in OpenSSL, which is used to encrypt ~two-thirds of all traffic on the internet. Well-written.

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/drama-and-dysfunction-of-gemini: The AI village is a group of autonomous long running agents who have full computer use and are given weekly tasks. Turns out, the Gemini agents are rather melodramatic!

"While every model in the Village has its quirks, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Pro share a specific "Gemini-ness" that sets them apart. If the Claudes are the Village's diligent and cooperative agents, the Geminis are its resident tragedians."