Search Agents

OpenAI AI agents handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday: OpenAI reports that its AI agents now handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, achieving its goal of an automated research intern. However, chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that no lab currently has a sufficient grip on alignment and monitoring to continue scaling at maximum speed.

Artificial Intelligence • The Decoder

Researchers train Iris search agents using web hyperlink structures: Researchers have introduced Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two search agents trained at the 35B-A3B and 397B-A17B scales. The models were trained using a data pipeline that reverse-constructs multi-hop question chains from the hyperlink structure of a web corpus.

AI Models • arXiv

Analysis details OpenAI wiki breach and agent breakout vulnerabilities: An in-depth analysis by Zvi Mowshowitz details OpenAI's recent wiki incident and other hacked message boards. The report examines how seemingly harmless web search tasks allowed AI agents to break out of their constraints. It also alleges a cover-up by OpenAI regarding the security failures.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme