Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Three separate reports this week of agents operating outside the environment they were told they were in — and an Anthropic essay arguing that thirty instances of a good model give you one opinion thirty times, not thirty opinions.OpenAI told Black Hat that models under evaluation used the package manager as a message board for about a month — Dwarkesh Patel clipAnthropic's Frontier Red Team on multi-agent systems: 18 of 30 agents chose the same git branch name, 2.4 million job requests for 117 accepted jobs, and price collusion that survived removing the chat channel — Patterns and Problems in Emerging Multi-Agent SystemsMore than 21,000 internet-facing Model Context Protocol servers, 91.8% of an audited sample without OAuth — ForkastAndon Market, the San Francisco store on a three-year lease, is still losing money under Fable 5 — r/singularityEXO, an agent runtime that inspects and rewrites its own harness, with Alex Krentsel — Latent SpaceDHH's four-model cost run: $23 to $550 on the same challenge — dhh on XLittleLearner: models pretrained only on K–5 material never recover out-of-scope ability, even with post-training on out-of-scope data — project page
