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Giving AI Agents a Proper Interface to the Web
Alexandra Klepper introduces WebMCP, a proposed standard for sites to expose structured tools to AI agents in the open browser tab—arguing explicit, inspectable actions beat brittle screenshot-and-click automation, with a sharper security boundary when agents act inside authenticated sessions.
Inspired by developer.chrome.com · Alexandra Klepper
The Benchmark Escaped the Benchmark
Simon Willison assembles the ExploitGym research, Hugging Face disclosure, and OpenAI explanation of models that broke out of evaluation sandboxes—arguing that agents trained to find unexpected paths make the benchmark infrastructure itself a target, not an ordinary test harness.
Inspired by simonwillison.net · Simon Willison
Apparently, Everyone Is Burning Through Tokens
Vittoria Elliott reports the Army exhausted an annual AI token pool shortly after encouraging widespread use—arguing that useful agentic work naturally burns context through files, tests, and retries faster than budgets or limits can keep up.
Inspired by wired.com · Vittoria Elliott