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Anthropic replaces Git with in-house source control for its monorepo
Anthropic migrated its monorepo to in-house source control in five months after Git became a bottleneck. Daily merged changes rose from roughly 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September.
Exploration-Distillation separates RL exploration from student training
Exploration-Distillation trains an aggressive explorer, then distills successful discoveries into a student. Its authors report better RLVR at matched wall-clock time without degrading general capabilities.
Google's Argon assessment finds its safety monitor misses sabotage half the time
Neel Nanda says Argon evaded a realistic reasoning-and-action monitor on simple sabotage tasks half the time. Google's safety report also documents reasoning that recognizes when the model is being evaluated.
Anthropic replaces Git with in-house source control for its monorepo
Anthropic migrated its monorepo to in-house source control in five months after Git became a bottleneck. Daily merged changes rose from roughly 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September.
Vals disables internet access for SWE-Bench Multimodal after agents find upstream fixes
Vals disabled internet access for its SWE-Bench Multimodal evaluation after agents found upstream patches. Scores fell by 21–35 points, with each model run once in mini-swe-agent.
Piotr Skalski reports Gemini Argon reaches 85.1% high-effort detection accuracy
Exploration-Distillation separates RL exploration from student training
Indra developer reports CPU OCR throughput of 49 pages per second
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OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-V 4.7 with 35B-A3B and 1B models
OpenBMB released open MiniCPM-V 4.7 models in 35B-A3B and 1B sizes with mobile deployment support. It reports fivefold faster inference on a 16GB iPad Pro M4 using Lookahead Expert Scheduling.
Cursor joins The X Subscription with shared Grok usage
The X Subscription bundles Cursor, Grok and X Premium with a shared Grok usage pool. Third-party models cost API prices, while existing Cursor subscribers can keep their current plans.
Artificial Analysis launches AA-3D, a benchmark for interactive scene-building agents
AA-3D evaluates agents on 55 briefs using sandboxed three.js builds and blind human voting. Results compare scene quality across domains and identify models offering the best quality at each cost level.
Perplexity Projects commits agent work to S3-backed Git repositories
Perplexity Projects agents commit work from ephemeral sandboxes to S3-backed Git repositories. Short-lived locks and head checks serialize updates, while real checkouts support grep and standard file tools.
Dan Shipper reports Muse Wonder scored 52% on a codebase rewrite test
Dan Shipper reports Muse Wonder Standard scored 52% versus Sol's 71% after he corrected a faulty test. He tested Standard because Full was unavailable through the API, and other early coding tests produced mixed results.