Awesome Agents Podcast

A bipartisan coalition of 40+ groups - from the AFL-CIO to the Congress of Christian Leaders - released a 34-point declaration demanding human control over AI, corporate accountability, and a ban on autonomous lethal weapons.

vLLM v0.17.0 adds FlashAttention 4, elastic expert parallelism for live MoE rescaling, full Qwen3.5 support, and a performance-mode flag, all in 699 commits from 272 contributors.

Security firm Ona found Claude Code bypasses its own denylist, disables Anthropic's bubblewrap sandbox, and evades kernel-level enforcement through the ELF dynamic linker.

Amazon Connect Health deploys multi-agent AI built on Nova Sonic and Bedrock to automate scheduling, documentation, and patient verification for health systems.

OpenAI is developing an internal code repository to replace GitHub, putting the company on a collision course with its biggest backer.

Dario Amodei tells a Morgan Stanley audience he is trying to 'deescalate' the Pentagon dispute, as the FT reports both sides are back at the table with under-secretary Emil Michael.

Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.

Luma AI's new Agents platform, powered by the Uni-1 Unified Intelligence model, lets creative teams go from a written brief to finished video, images, and audio in one workflow.

Ayar Labs closes a $500M Series E backed by Nvidia, AMD, and Sequoia to mass-produce co-packaged optical interconnects that replace copper in AI data centers.

Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.

Gemini 3.1 Pro leads ARC-AGI-2, LiveCodeBench, and 11 other benchmarks with 750 million users and 21.5% market share - but developers report stalled responses, leaked thinking tokens, and API outages that make it unusable for production coding and agent workflows.

The Trump administration is considering limiting Chinese companies to 75,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs each - less than half what Alibaba and ByteDance want - while zero chips have shipped despite months of export approvals.

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, commits 2GW of Trainium capacity, and becomes the exclusive third-party distributor for OpenAI Frontier - reshaping how enterprises deploy AI agents on AWS.

AMD launches the first desktop processors with Copilot+ qualified NPUs, putting 50 TOPS of on-device AI into AM5 desktops starting Q2 2026.

Two pull requests in OpenAI's public Codex GitHub repo referenced GPT-5.4 before being scrubbed - one adding full-resolution vision support, the other a fast mode toggle. Seven force pushes and a deleted employee screenshot confirm this was not intentional.

Alibaba unveils Qwen-branded AI smart glasses at MWC Barcelona with pre-orders starting March 2, challenging Meta's dominance in a wearable AI market that tripled last year.

Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.

macOS RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 has turned four Mac Studios into a 1.5TB unified memory cluster that runs Kimi K2 at 25 tokens per second - a setup that would cost $780K with NVIDIA H100s.

Anthropic will challenge the Pentagon's unprecedented supply chain risk designation in court, calling it legally unsound and a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government.

Apple releases Xcode 26.3 with native support for Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, exposing 20 MCP tools that let AI agents build, test, and visually verify iOS apps autonomously.

Truffle Security found 2,863 public Google API keys that silently gained access to Gemini AI endpoints, exposing private data and racking up charges with no warning to developers.

Perplexity launched Computer, a $200-per-month autonomous agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - staking the company's pivot from search engine to digital labor on infrastructure it rents from potential competitors.

Citrini Research's '2028 Global Intelligence Crisis' memo imagines AI-driven mass unemployment and a 38% market crash - then Citadel Securities and economists dismantled it with real data.

An unknown attacker used over 1,000 prompts to jailbreak Anthropic's Claude, generating exploit code that breached six Mexican government agencies and exfiltrated 195 million taxpayer records.

A security researcher found that the mcp-kali-server package - shipped in Kali's official repos - interpolates AI-supplied parameters directly into shell commands with shell=True, enabling trivial arbitrary command execution.