Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
GEN

BMS’s New Facility, Recursion–Genentech Partnership, Long-COVID and Persistent C. auris

Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map By Alex Philippidis, GEN Edge, Aug 5, 2026 COVID-19 Reactivates Dormant Viruses, Offering New Clues ...
NextBigFuture

Prime Intellect Recursive Language Model

Recursive Language Models (RLMs) are a general inference paradigm that treats long prompts as part of an external environment and allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively ...
marktechpost

Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel

Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. Fixed tool schemas and context ...
NextBigFuture

Self Improving Harness – Self-improving coding and research agent

Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving coding and research agent (harness) released by Prime Intellect on August 5, 2026. It is built for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. It ...
Engadget

Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent

Meta has announced an early beta of Muse Code, a new coding agent meant to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The new terminal-based coding tool is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a ...
Reuters

Meta launches new AI coding tool powered by Muse Spark 1.2

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab on Wednesday launched Muse Code, a coding tool powered by its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, designed to help ‌developers write and debug ...
GEN

Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map

Christopher Winrow, PhD, Recursion’s vice president of neuroscience, inside the company’s lab. Recursion marked a milestone in its up to $12 billion artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration with ...
Bloomberg

Roche Advances AI-Derived Drug Target With Partner Recursion

Roche Holding AG advanced the first project from its AI drug-discovery partnership with Recursion Pharmaceuticals, marking an early test of whether artificial intelligence can uncover new medicines.
Geeky Gadgets

Qwen 3.8 Max Launches with a Massive 2.44 Trillion Parameters

Qwen 3.8 Max is the latest and largest open-weight multimodal AI model, featuring an impressive 2.44 trillion parameters. This advancement marks a new chapter in the Qwen series, emphasizing both ...