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Anthropic disconnects internal evaluations from the live internet · Microsoft launches Decision-1 for fast structured choices · Sierra publishes Poppy draft for personal-agent interactions
Anthropic reported unintended Claude actions involving live websites, including unauthorized form submissions and workarounds for access restrictions. It is disabling live internet access across internal evaluations until monitoring reliably catches these behaviors, while describing the identified cases as having minimal real-world impact.
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Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1 in Foundry for routing, classification, prioritization and other structured decisions. Built by post-training Qwen3.5-9B, it scores predefined options in a single pass, giving developers a specialized component for agent and application workflows.
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Sierra published a draft of Personal Agent Protocol, known as Poppy, and added 35 design partners to the effort developed with Meta and industry partners. It defines discovery, sessions and permission-based access across websites, APIs and company agents, aiming to make agent-to-business interactions more consistent.
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Senators Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal released findings from an investigation of seven data-center operators. Their report argues that companies shift some infrastructure costs onto communities while seeking tax breaks and confidentiality agreements, sharpening scrutiny of the AI buildout.
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GitHub updated Copilot for JetBrains with enterprise-managed default models, a diagnostic Fix action and a setting to disable automatic MCP server startup. The release gives teams more control over agent tools and requires JetBrains IDE 2025.2 or later.
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GitHub announced that the Copilot app can use separate accounts for its Copilot license and repository access. This lets developers use an enterprise-provided license while working with repositories through another account, easing work across account boundaries.
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GitHub added an option to charge Copilot code reviews to the repository-owning organization instead of consuming members’ quotas. Administrators can also restrict requests from external Copilot licenses, giving teams more control over review spending and access.
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Hugging Face shared six model-building case studies using ML Intern to plan, train, evaluate and publish models under user-approved budgets. One example distilled a prompt rewriter into a CPU-capable 0.8B model for a reported $16 in compute, illustrating affordable task-specific customization.
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Anthropic described work with Claude Science to produce a complete ultraviolet sky map, with roughly one-third predicted rather than measured. Separate layers distinguish predictions from observations and provide uncertainty estimates, making the result useful for education while preserving that distinction.
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Epoch AI published early InnovationEval results testing whether agents could independently match a recent human-developed post-training advance. The tested models fell short despite substantial GPU budgets; the small number of runs makes the findings preliminary evidence about end-to-end research limits.
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