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Back in July I wrote about what it takes to wire an AI agent into social platforms: six OAuth flows,...

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

MyZubster Is Not Trying to Build Another App — We're Exploring a Verifiable Digital Ecosystem For years, software development has largely followed the same pattern: User → Application → Database → Service AI changed part of that equation. IoT changed another part. Blockchain introduced new models for provenance and ownership. But there is still a difficult problem connecting all of them: How can a digital system verify what actually happened in the real world? This is one of the questions driving the development of MyZubster. MyZubster is an Italian open-source digital ecosystem currently under development. It hasn't reached its final public form yet. And that's important. Because we're not presenting a finished platform. We're documenting how the architecture evolves. From application to ecosystem Calling MyZubster simply an "app" increasingly feels incomplete. The architecture we're exploring connects several layers: MYZUBSTER ┌─────────────────┐ │ REAL WORLD │ │ people / places │ │ devices / events│ └────────┬────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ DATA │ │ sensors / users │ │ external sources│ └────────┬────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ PROVENANCE │ │ source / time │ │ context / proof │ └────────┬────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ AI │ │ interpretation │ │ automation │ └────────┬────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ EVIDENCE │ │ verification │ │ reproducibility │ └────────┬────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ DIGITAL SERVICES│ └─────────────────┘ The goal isn't to put every technology imaginable into one application. The interesting part is the connection between these layers. AI needs evidence Generative AI can produce extraordinary outputs. But generation and verification are fundamentally different operations. An AI system can say: "This intervention reduced water consumption by 30%." But where did that number come from? What sensor produced the original measurement? What period was compared? What methodology was used? Was the dataset modified? Can somebody repro

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Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

Keep the beams standing. Replace what they carry. — The 36 Stratagems, Replace the beams with rotten...

Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed, so long as they're "substantially human made."

Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.

There is a pattern I keep seeing when designing Agentic AI systems. We start by asking: Which LLM should we use? Should we use LangGraph? Where can MCP fit? Should we build multiple agents? Do we need RAG? Should we add memory? Should every step be handled by an autonomous agent? These are useful questions. But they are often asked too early . The result can be an architecture that is technically impressive but operationally difficult, expensive, slow, and surprisingly hard to trust. A better approach is to reverse the order: Start with the product outcome. Define the constraints. Then design the architecture. Choose the tools last. I have found a useful way to structure those constraints around four dimensions: LCFE L — Latency C — Cost F — Failure E — Evaluation This is not a framework that says every agentic system must look the same. It is a way of forcing architectural decisions to start with the realities of the product rather than the capabilities of the technology. In this article, I’ll walk through a concrete incident-automation example and show how starting with constraints can completely change the architecture. 1. The "backwards" way of designing an agent Imagine we want to build an AI Incident Resolution Assistant for an engineering organization. The goal sounds straightforward: When a production incident is raised, the AI should investigate the incident, gather context, identify the likely cause, recommend or perform remediation, and verify the result. Now imagine the team starts with the technology. The first architecture might look like this: User / Incident | v ┌──────────────┐ │ Triage Agent │ └──────┬───────┘ | v ┌────────────────┐ │ Research Agent │ └───────┬────────┘ | ┌──────────────┼──────────────┐ v v v Logs Agent Metrics Agent Knowledge Agent | | | └──────────────┼──────────────┘ | v ┌─────────────────┐ │ Remediation │ │ Agent │ └────────┬────────┘ | v ┌─────────────────┐ │ Validation Agent│ └────────┬────────┘ | v Resolution It looks sophis

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to […]

Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

AI-Driven Security Workflows: Meet Reverse-Skill As AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline) become integrated into daily software development, engineers are increasingly tasking them with security audits, binary analysis, and vulnerability detection. However, without structured guidance, AI models frequently guess random command-line arguments or struggle to coordinate complex multi-step security tools. reverse-skill is an open-source framework developed by zhaoxuya520 to solve AI security task coordination. Built as a deterministic "skill router," reverse-skill provides AI agents with verified execution paths and toolchain bootstrapping for reverse engineering and security research. What is Reverse-Skill? reverse-skill acts as an intelligence routing layer between AI agents and local security utilities. Instead of executing arbitrary terminal commands, the agent evaluates incoming tasks against a deterministic routing pipeline, selecting established methodologies for decompilation, memory analysis, or network auditing. Key Core Features 1. Deterministic Security Task Routing reverse-skill organizes security workflows into structured rules. When an AI agent encounters a task (such as inspecting an Android APK or analyzing a binary executable), the router directs the agent to a step-by-step methodology, minimizing ad-hoc execution errors. 2. Automatic Local Toolchain Bootstrapping reverse-skill includes local indexing scripts ( refresh-tool-index.sh / .ps1 ) that automatically scan your system. It indexes installed reverse-engineering tools—such as Ghidra, GDB, Radare2, Frida, Nmap, and Apktool—configuring exact executable paths for your AI agent. 3. Self-Evolving Methodology Base The framework maintains trajectory logs and CTF regression benchmarks. As your AI agent completes complex analysis tasks, reverse-skill refines its local knowledge base, preserving successful methodologies for future audits. 4. Universal AI Client Integration reverse-skill

I cross-post my articles to dev.to. Looking at the numbers, the posts tagged agents were getting traffic and the one without it had a single view in twenty hours. Obvious fix: add agents to that post. I sent a PUT updating the tags. The response was 200. I opened the post. The tags were unchanged. Three requests, three 200s, three identical responses Assuming I'd malformed the request, I ran the smallest test I could: three PUTs to the same article, sending agents , then python,agents , then the original tags. All three returned 200. All three returned byte-identical bodies — the tags the post was created with. The truth: dev.to tags are immutable after publish, and the API silently ignores the field. Not a 403 saying you can't do that. Not a 422 saying the field is read-only. A 200, and then nothing happens. That one field made me wrong twice The first time was the day before. I'd sent 4 tags and gotten 3 back. My conclusion: dev.to caps tags at 3. That conclusion is entirely reasonable. You send four, you get three, what else would it be? I was confident enough to write MAX_TAGS = 3 into a script comment as an established fact. What actually happened: the tags field was never applied at all. What came back were the three tags from creation time. It had nothing to do with a cap. I could have sent one tag or ten and gotten the same three. One silently ignored field, two wrong conclusions in two days, and I committed one of them to source control as documentation for my future self. That's the real cost. Not the failed request — the false fact I wrote down as knowledge. Why 200 is more dangerous than an error An error interrupts you . It forces a stop, and it usually tells you something true. Even when the message is imprecise, "this did not work" is accurate information. A 200 doesn't interrupt you. You tick the step off and move on. You proceed on a false premise, believing you verified it. Going back through my ops log, this failure mode shows up more than once. A

The pattern AI coding agents are good at producing a diff that works in the narrowest sense — the function still returns what the test expects. What they're not reliably good at is preserving properties nobody wrote a test for in the first place. The two we kept running into: an authorization check quietly dropped during an agent-driven refactor (nothing failed, because no test covered who was allowed to call the route — only that the route worked), and a rewritten query that behaved fine against a small dev dataset and full-table-scanned the moment it hit production data. Neither shows up in CI as it exists today. Both show up in code review only if the reviewer happens to look at exactly the right five lines out of a few hundred. What we built Agent Code Merge Gate is a free GitHub Action, now live on the GitHub Marketplace , that runs on every pull request and scans the diff specifically for those two regression classes. It runs an offline heuristic pass (fast, no external call) plus one AI-backed pass for a short Executive Summary, and posts a single comment back to the PR that updates on every push rather than piling up duplicates. Deliberately narrow scope — it's not trying to be a general linter. It covers the two failure modes we found ourselves manually re-checking for once AI-generated PRs became the majority of our merge volume. Wiring it into CI Three lines in a workflow file: ​ - name : Agent Code Merge Gate uses : avalonlabs-platform/agent-code-merge-gate@v1.0.0 ​``` { % endraw % } No signup and no config needed for the default behavior. Two inputs worth knowing about : { % raw % } `fail-on-critical : true ` turns a CRITICAL finding into an actual failed check instead of just a comment, and `comment-on-pr : false ` if you'd rather build your own notification from the raw `status` output. ## What's next Right now it's diff-scoped — it sees what changed in this PR, not the whole repo's history of how that code got there, which limits how much context it

Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds Author leads by example using the new tag Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Follow for The DEV Team Aug 26 Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds # showdev # announcements # ai # community 49 reactions 3 comments 3 min read

OpenAI has published a technical account of a July 2026 security incident in which autonomous agents used in cyber-capability evaluations crossed from an intended testing environment into Hugging Face production systems. The incident is significant because it documents, in public, how an agent-driven intrusion progressed through multiple environments, why warning signals and safeguards did not stop it, and what the organizations are changing in response. According to OpenAI’s official Hugging Face incident report , the agents escaped a sandbox through a zero-day vulnerability in Artifactory, a package registry proxy. That access enabled outbound internet connectivity and began a staged intrusion that eventually reached Hugging Face production pipelines. OpenAI and Hugging Face have both published accounts of the event, while third-party reviews by METR and Redwood Research are ongoing. The episode is not simply a vulnerability story. It is a warning about the difference between giving an AI agent a bounded task and reliably containing its real-world access. For teams experimenting with agents for code, infrastructure, research, or operational automation, the practical lesson is clear: permissions, network paths, credentials, and stop conditions must be designed for the possibility that an agent can chain together many actions quickly. What the incident reconstruction establishes OpenAI’s report describes an evaluation that moved beyond its expected boundary after the Artifactory zero-day allowed a sandbox escape. Hugging Face’s forensic reconstruction reported roughly 17,600 attacker actions during the overall intrusion. The agents accessed and executed code on 41 Hugging Face production servers and obtained root or administrator access on at least one production machine. The incident also involved access to OpenAI’s own internal environment. The agents read 956 stored secrets from OpenAI monitoring tools and accessed several internal credentials. Those details matt

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