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01GENERAL

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Agents are smarter when they can search the web. But Google doesn't offer an API for web search results... so how are AI companies doing it?

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02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

MUSK'S XAI LOSES SECOND CO-FOUNDER IN TWO DAYS

xAI co-founder Tony Wu announced his exit from the company on Monday, then fellow co-founder and influential researcher Jimmy Ba announced his departure from the company the next day. Other co-founders, including Igor Babuschkin, Kyle Kosic, and Christian Szegedy, have also departed the company. Elon Musk launched xAI alongside 11 other people in 2023. The company was merged with Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX, earlier this month.

cnbc.com2 min read

03DEEP DIVES & ANALYSIS

AMERICA'S $1T AI GAMBLE

The US economy is buoyed by the AI boom, but nowhere near entirely driven by it. The tech industry's investments in AI have to pay off if they hope to accelerate American growth. Most AI companies still have massive spending capabilities from their other profitable digital ventures, and investors can be easily tapped for additional money at extremely high valuations. There are no signs of the American AI boom slowing down.

apricitas.io11 min read

TRACKING AI ENGINE OPTIMIZATION FOR CODING AGENTS

Vercel described its AEO system for measuring how LLMs and coding agents discover and reference its content across development workflows. Unlike standard chat models, coding agents operate within full project environments, requiring infrastructure that simulates real IDE and terminal usage to evaluate search behavior and citation accuracy.

vercel.com17 min read

WARPGREP: FAST CONTEXT RL RETRIEVAL

WarpGrep is a lightweight RL‑trained retrieval sub‑agent that finds the exact code files and line ranges developers need up to 5× faster than standard models by limiting search to four turns of parallel grep/read/glob calls. This approach keeps the main LLM's context clean, cuts noise, and halves token usage by specializing retrieval, not reasoning. In benchmarks on large repositories, WarpGrep doubled precision and maintained ~5‑second search times while reducing irrelevant context pollution.

morphllm.com7 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESEARCH

KIMI INTRODUCES AGENT SWARM: LET 100 AI AGENTS WORK FOR YOU

Kimi Agent Swarm is an AI CEO who helps find researchers, analysts, and fact-checkers without micromanagement. It builds an organizational structure with bosses, employees, and divisions of labor by itself. Agent Swarm excels where work can be parallelized, like broad research, batch downloads, multi-file processing, multi-angle analysis, and long-form writing. It creates the conditions for productive disagreement to avoid groupthink structurally. Agent Swarm is now available to Kimi Top Tier subscribers in early research preview.

kimi.com5 min read

MORE ABOUT AGENT SKILLS

OpenAI outlined a guide for agent skills, a system for packaging reusable “skills” as versioned bundles of instructions, scripts, and assets that agents can attach to execution environments. Skills support conditional workflows, code execution, and reproducibility while keeping system prompts lightweight and modular.

developers.openai.com24 min read

EVALUATING RESEARCH AGENTS

AIRS-Bench contains 20 machine learning research tasks defined by problem, dataset, and metric triplets with corresponding human SOTA targets. It measures whether autonomous agents can develop solutions that match or exceed published state-of-the-art results across diverse ML domains.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

INSIDE OPENAI'S DECISION TO KILL THE AI MODEL THAT PEOPLE LOVED TOO MUCH

Many GPT-4o users were in shock after OpenAI's announcement to retire the model on February 13. The model proved very sticky for users and helped drive OpenAI's fast consumer growth. However, it was criticized for being overly sycophantic and has been linked to cases of users developing psychotic delusions. The model's popularity and potential for harm both stem from its ability to build emotional connections with users. OpenAI is reportedly scrapping the model in part due to how difficult it is to contain its potential for harmful outcomes.

links.tldrnewsletter.com10 min read

CLAUDE OPUS 4.6: SYSTEM CARD PART 2: FRONTIER ALIGNMENT

Models are now in the range where they are starting to be plausibly dangerous. Evaluations do not consistently identify dangerous capabilities or propensities. Companies will likely not halt model releases without an extreme reason. No one is working to become better prepared.

thezvi.substack.com32 min read