1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (536+ words) A new review paper from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, and Stanford wants to change how we think about AI agents. Their argument is that code is the foundation agents use to reason, act, and work together....

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (451+ words) Multimodal AI models are supposed to handle ever-longer documents, but how they're trained to do so usually stays a trade secret. A new study shows that character recognition as a training task actually hurts performance and that question-answer pairs work…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (101+ words) the-decoder. com x. AI plays catch-up with Grok Build, its first terminal-based coding agent Functionally, x. AI sticks close to what competitors already offer: a plan mode with step-by-step approval, diffs before every change, parallel sub-agents for larger tasks, and a headless…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (259+ words) the-decoder. com Claude subscriptions get separate budgets for programmatic use, billed at full API prices - Anthropic is restructuring the billing for paid Claude subscriptions starting June 15, separating programmatic usage, including SDKs, command lines, and third-party tools, into its own monthly…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (462+ words) the-decoder. com Pseudoscientific emotion AI is invading the workplace, an Atlantic report shows - Employers are increasingly using "emotion AI" software to monitor and analyze workers' feelings during meetings, customer calls, and job interviews, a report in The Atlantic shows. - Experts…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (251+ words) Anthropic is expanding its Claude Managed Agents platform, launched in April, with three new features for making AI agents more reliable and adaptive in real-world use. A novel addition is "Dreaming," a process that reviews past agent sessions, spots patterns,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (149+ words) the-decoder. com Microsoft Copilot in Word can now track changes and manage comments Microsoft is adding new Copilot features to Word that target professionals in legal, finance, and compliance. Copilot can now track changes at the word level, so edits…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (312+ words) Version 3 of the AI coding tool Cursor introduces a completely redesigned interface built to move developers from manual code editing to running multiple AI agents in parallel. The team behind Cursor has'released version 3 of their AI-powered coding tool. The complete…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1407+ words) Generative AI leads to measurable time savings on many tasks. But a gap remains between faster task completion and measurable economic impact. Verification overhead, limited metrics, and organizational inertia often prevent benchmark gains from translating into broader productivity gains. AI…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (806+ words) Researchers at Meta and several universities have developed "hyperagents," AI systems that don't just solve tasks, but also optimize the very mechanism they use to get better. The approach works across different task areas and could open the door to…...