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Sourced AI briefs in publish order — newest first. Citeable originals live on the homepage under From Signal Desk.
NVIDIA VSS Blueprint 3.3 cuts visual-agent cost two ways: a one-prompt Build Vision Agent skill and Adaptive EVS that prunes unchanged video tokens.
Nvidia’s 100-plus company Open Agent Safety Platform lacks OpenAI’s public pledge — even as OpenAI says it supports the work and already uses OpenShell.
OpenAI’s disclosure fills in the Australia incident: an experimental model, tasked with Victoria spending stats, forced a public Medicare portal to run instructions and read internal files.
Anthropic says ~950 Claude agents found a Crispr-like enzyme system in 21.5 hours — scientists cheer the method, demand the wet-lab proof.
ChatGPT Space, Pages, and collaborative Slides put OpenAI squarely in Microsoft Office’s lane — with Dots as coworkers inside the docs.
Palisade’s frominside.ai interviews put lab researchers on camera with extinction odds from ~10% to coin-flip — and no single playbook.
OpenAI’s Dots are always-on GPT-6 Astra agents — background goal pursuers with Slack/Teams hooks and a cartoon face aimed at Meta’s Muse.
Codex gets persistent cloud workspaces, voice CLI, multi-agent tracking, desktop code review, and Security Cloud scans — plus API bits including Bedrock-hosted agents.
DevDay expands ChatGPT plug-ins into sidebar apps with interactive panels, better discovery, Sites hosting, and MCP Events for automations.
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay — near-Astra agentic performance at one-fifth the token price — while GPT-6.1 Astra stays shelved over safety.
The Verge: Dots are Astra-powered always-on assistants with cloud computers, 4,000+ apps, Slack/Teams context — rolling out to Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise.
WIRED’s DevDay read: Dots are Astra-powered always-on agents that crawl, connect apps, and compete head-on with Meta’s Muse — starting at ChatGPT Pro.