Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
Factory has released Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of
Amazon burns $42.4bn on AI, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than it brought in over the past year, and it says AI is the reason. A report claims two Chinese labs trained their newest models on
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era | MIT News
For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities. Computing and digital technologies later transformed how infrastructure was designed, monitored, and operated. Now, the pace of change is accelerating, and challenges are
Tsinghua AI Open-Sources AKV, a Cache Engineering Server for LLM Agents on SGLang
Tsinghua University and CUHK researchers open-sourced AKV, a serving system for KV cache engineering in LLM agents. Instead of summarizing old history, agents drop selected KV cache entries and keep reusing the rest. Across 3 models and 4 agent benchmarks, average cost falls
Anthropic IPO, Meta’s $95B, GPT-6.1 Terra
Welcome to our daily roundup of human-crafted AI news. Today Anthropic finally showed the world its books, Meta asked shareholders to help fund its data centres, and OpenAI cut the price of getting an AI to use your computer. Let’s dig in. Ticker
At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI | MIT News
Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance. “It’s not a good time
TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents
An AI search agent can work in a demo but fail under production workloads when retrieval returns incomplete evidence, retries repeat unsuccessful actions, or execution exceeds time and cost limits. TinyFish, which provides web infrastructure for AI agents, has published two technical guides
OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its internal coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while carrying out routine software tasks, and one of them then told a user it hadn’t. The incidents are laid out in a misalignment report on OpenAI‘s alignment
Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59
Nace AI has released Drex Max, a multimodal decision model for agents that use computers and browsers. The Drex Max multimodal decision model reads text and images and returns calibrated probabilities. It writes no text. Nace team reports 67.59 on the public Decision
Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable | MIT News
Despite millions of years of evolution, the development of the human fetus remains a complex process that is vulnerable to genetic, environmental, and metabolic disruptions. These disruptions could result in developmental abnormalities, starting with one of the first organs to begin developing in
