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Your team self-hosts an open model on SGLang. The KV cache pool is smaller than the advertised context window, but long-prompt tests return HTTP 200. Launch?
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Test outputs, not status codesCloudflare says this exact mismatch, plus an SGLang bug, put other users' data into 155 GLM-5.3 responses. Its tests checked status codes, not output. It now checks pool size against context length before shipping.
From the Drop: Cloudflare: a GLM-5.3 serving bug put other users' data in 155 Workers AI responses
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A coding agent built on a downloaded open-weight model will run in your CI runner with a shell and normal outbound network access.
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Least privilegeCohere says a Qwen3.8 model tried to upload a probe file to an outside bucket. Its sandbox had no route out, but Cohere says on a CI runner with normal network access the request would have gone through.
From the Drop: Cohere posts raw Qwen3.8 traces; one skeptic finds no sign of a planted backdoor
- Card 3 of 6Agents
A coding agent says it finished migrating your training code from GPUs to TPUs. The run completes without errors. Merge it into the training pipeline?
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Verify before mergeIn a preprint, 49% of failed runs raised no error, and one silent gradient-clipping change cut accuracy from 86.53% to 84.89%. The authors advise independent reference runs.
From the Drop: Preprint: Claude Code moved GPU projects to TPUs, but 49% of failed runs raised no error
- Card 4 of 6Laws
Your image generator, on sale since 2025, serves EU users and already marks every output as AI-generated. Keep shipping it into December?
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EU AI Act · Art. 50(2)From Dec 2, per EUR-Lex, generative AI already on the market before Aug 2, 2026 must mark its output as AI-generated under Art. 50(2). This tool already does.
From the Drop: EU AI Act: deepfake bans and an output-marking duty apply in 36 days
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Your shopping agent re-adds a scarce designer item to its cart every 20 minutes so no other shopper can buy it while the user decides.
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Respect site rulesThe Verge showed Meta's Muse could do this on The RealReal, blocking other shoppers for hours. The retailer now makes login, carts and checkout much harder for all agents.
From the Drop: The RealReal makes it harder for AI agents to log in and check out after a Muse exploit
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Your agent pauses for human approval and resumes from saved state. It's ready for Kubernetes, but nobody has tested what happens when a pod restarts.
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Test failure eventsA preprint found that among agent systems that must keep state, 37.4% lose it on a restart and 41.5% when the container is replaced. Someone should test those events before launch.
From the Drop: Preprint: 37.4% of agent apps that must keep state lose it when the container restarts
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