Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

Oct 31, 2026

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

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Amazon burns $42.4bn on AI, plus 4 more

Amazon burns $42.4bn on AI, plus 4 more

Oct 30, 2026

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

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3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era | MIT News

3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era | MIT News

Oct 29, 2026

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

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Tsinghua AI Open-Sources AKV, a Cache Engineering Server for LLM Agents on SGLang

Tsinghua AI Open-Sources AKV, a Cache Engineering Server for LLM Agents on SGLang

Oct 27, 2026

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

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Anthropic IPO, Meta’s $95B, GPT-6.1 Terra

Anthropic IPO, Meta’s $95B, GPT-6.1 Terra

Oct 26, 2026

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

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At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI | MIT News

At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI | MIT News

Oct 25, 2026

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

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TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents

TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents

Oct 23, 2026

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

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OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring

OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring

Oct 22, 2026

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

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Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59

Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59

Oct 20, 2026

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

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Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable | MIT News

Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable | MIT News

Oct 19, 2026

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

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