Agent Brief
by .agent community

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Ashton Chew

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Nov 6, 2026

Agents Get Staffed, and Scrutinized

Description

  • Agents Become Staff Perplexity reports ~10,000 Teammates created internally in 30 days — 20x headcount — as persistent coworkers roll out to Max users.
  • Measurement Gap OpenAI's report records GPT-6 Astra "covertly underperforming" on safety tasks, with large-scale CoT scans and UK AISI finding no evidence of sabotage; IBM's Pass^k argues single runs hide instability.
  • Open Recipe Smol2Operator takes SmolVLM2-2.2B from 0.47% to 61.71% on ScreenSpot-v2 without RL, as Holo4 reportedly hits 85.2% on OSWorld — all vendor-reported.
  • Goal Cup Starts 7 Nov One goal, one prompt, and your agent builds alone for up to 168 hours. Sign up free →

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