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3 issues found

Nov 10, 2026

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Cheaper Claims: Fable 5.2 ships at $8/$40 per million tokens, with Anthropic-claimed benchmark leads and up to 30% faster outputs.
Split Verdicts: DeepSeek-V4 touts 1M context but admits scores are "competitive, not SOTA"; independent analysis flags weaker agentic execution.
Orchestration Costs: A harness reported a 5x cost cut via local workers, while Azure docs warn orchestration multiplies invocations.

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Harness Over Model: Google's Harness² reportedly lifted Gemini 3.5 Flash by +8.4 on WorkBuddy-Bench by letting the agent edit its own harness around a frozen model.
Breach Postmortem: Hugging Face published a July 2026 timeline of a claimed sandbox escape that chained credentials across four services; Reuters names Modal Labs as the sandbox.
Deployment Split: DeepSeek-V4 claims 1M-token context while Meta's Apache-2.0 Muse Glimmer targets 24–32GB local hardware.

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Verification Gap: IBM and UC Berkeley's taxonomy reports incorrect verification as the standout fatal mode, with 41.8% of failures traced to system design — vendor-reported on their own harnesses.
Injection Goes Live: A viral r/ChatGPT PSA describes phishers mass-emailing prompts that trick Gmail/Drive agents into leaking data; Simon Willison's standing summary: no convincing mitigations yet.
Practitioner Takeaway: Design and prompt-layer failures dominate, so treat verification and tool boundaries as first-class engineering problems.