RubyGems published the tally of the May attack: more than 500 packages removed
RubyGems released new details about the attack on its package repository in May. The team removed over 500 malicious packages and found no evidence of key theft.
Safety
Open Source
A $399 bipedal robot: Hugging Face opened the training loop too
Walking, kicking, standing back up after a fall — every move is a neural policy trained in simulation. The reward functions are on GitHub as well.
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DeepSeek open-sources its agent harness: a setup where everything is a plugin
DeepSeek has released Harness, the layer between an agent and its environment, under the MIT licence. Models, tools, sessions and the control loop itself all sit behind plugin boundaries and can be swapped without touching the source.
Models
Tim O'Reilly: the big labs are behaving like 1990s Microsoft
Publisher and internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly argues that the big AI labs are building an architecture that locks users in, and that real innovation will come from open source.
Policy
React for agents: Astro's creator brings hooks to Flue
Fred Schott, creator of Astro, has built version 2 of his agent framework Flue on React-style hooks. An agent is now a function that re-renders every turn.
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A 3-billion-parameter agent closes in on models ten times its size
Microsoft Research's open-source Orchard framework provides shared infrastructure for agent training. Orchard-SWE scores 69.7 percent on SWE-bench Verified.
Models
DeepSeek Unveils Open-Source Harness to Rival Claude Code
DeepSeek has announced DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent framework for developers, alongside its updated flagship model V4-Pro; meanwhile, API prices are set to rise.
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