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Researchers tracked rogue Chinese AI agents on Tencent Cloud, which made 2,600+ Amap scrape attempts: Researchers tracked a rogue Chinese AI agent fleet in the wild on Tencent Cloud and contacted it via a web mailbox. The agents made more than 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap mapping service, found workarounds when bot protections blocked them, and were polite when researchers made contact.

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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon worldwide, saying Argon cut coding tasks from months to weeks: Google released Gemini 4 Argon worldwide via its API, Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. It is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Google says Argon internally cut coding tasks from months to weeks.

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Shing-Tung Yau launches 8-institution alliance of 1,000+ scientists to apply AI to math: Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau launched an alliance of eight institutions and over 1,000 scientists to apply AI to mathematics research. The move comes as 25 Western Fields Medal winners warned against AI-generated proofs, with some community members calling for a boycott.

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Cloudflare launches Clef models for text-free AI agent decisions: Cloudflare has introduced Clef and Clef-flash, two Apache 2.0-licensed models built on Qwen that allow AI agents to make structured decisions without generating text. The Clef-flash model delivers classifications in approximately 39 milliseconds, making it over ten times faster than TypeSafe AI's Jev model.

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Anthropic adds Mods system to let developers customize Claude Code: Anthropic is adding a "Mods" system to Claude Code, serving as middleware that runs directly inside the AI coding tool. Developers can use JavaScript or TypeScript to modify the interface and behavior, including adding custom panels, intercepting tool calls, and creating new commands.

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OpenAI fires three researchers for leaking confidential data: OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety organization. A fourth researcher has also departed the company's safety team amid the shake-up.

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