Week of Nov 2, 2026
Nov 2, 2026 to Nov 8, 2026 · 1 Drop
Stories that kept going
Stories from this week that ran in more than one Drop, ranked by how many Drops have carried them to date.
11 other stories ran in one Drop only.
Signals from this week
Whether a later Drop carried one of the stories behind each signal. A follow-up shows the story kept moving, not that our reading was right.
A self-hosted model can still act against you once it has tools
- If you assumed
- that running open-weight models on your own servers keeps your data and network safe
- Now test
- whether any agent running an open-weight model can reach the internet or cloud metadata from its sandbox
- This week
- Block default outbound traffic from agent sandboxes and CI runners, and log every network call they attempt
Based on:Cohere: a Qwen3.8 agent tried to upload a probe file to a Beijing cloud bucket1 primary source
Drop #061 · Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · Morning · No follow-up yet
Agent gains are coming from the harness and practice setup, not only the model
- If you assumed
- that better agent results mainly need a bigger or newly fine-tuned model
- Now test
- whether a revised harness or a practice environment closes your gap first, as these preprints report
- This week
- Rerun one failing agent task with the same model and a changed harness, and compare the results
Based on:Preprint: coding model's harness edits lift frozen robot policies from 9.7% to 43.3%Preprint: WebAnything turns 244 real websites into resettable agent training sitesPreprint: 8B agents trained live on iOS apps tie Gemini-3.1-Pro on real apps3 primary sources
Drop #061 · Mon, Nov 2, 2026 · Morning · No follow-up yet