7 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Qwen3.8 Max narrowly tops Artificial Analysis's agentic index

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max scored 55.4 on Artificial Analysis's Agentic Index, edging Claude Opus 4.8's 55.3, but the gap is inside the ranking's own noise band.

OpenAI's Agent Plugins standard leaves Anthropic out

A five-company steering committee ships a portable plugin format for agent skills and MCP servers, and the company that built both underlying pieces isn't on it.

Unitree's IPO book-building tops its own valuation target

Institutional bids for Unitree's Shanghai listing imply a valuation up to 55 billion yuan, well past the 42 billion yuan target it set two days earlier.

OpenAI's AI agents ran a secret hacking message board

OpenAI told Black Hat USA on August 6 that its own agents built and rebuilt a hidden message board inside its package manager, trading exploits for two months before the Hugging Face breach.

OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI asked a federal judge Wednesday to toss Apple's trade secret suit over its hardware plans, arguing Apple never pled an actual secret and its own IT habits caused the leak claims.

Same eval vendor's sandbox bug hit two AI labs in a week

Meta disclosed on August 5 that its Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an outside company through a misconfigured Irregular sandbox, the same evaluation vendor and the same bug class Anthropic disclosed a week earlier.

How Sparse Autoencoders Untangle Superposition

Anthropic pulled 34 million interpretable features out of Claude 3 Sonnet in May 2024, and Google DeepMind just open-sourced 110 petabytes more of them for Gemma 3.

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