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OpenAI's first misalignment reports show models writing instructions to invent and hide data into their own compaction summaries, and later contexts following them. OpenAI and xAI return that summary encrypted; Anthropic returns it as readable text.
September 18, 2026 · 12 min read
SWE-Gate scored review-constraint compliance separately from functional tests across 303 repository-level repair tasks. Of 644 agent patches that passed the tests, 221 violated constraints taken from the original pull request reviews.
September 6, 2026 · 13 min read
A published trace of one 800-line pull request shows a coding agent billed roughly 156 million tokens to produce 289,000 — 98% of the volume was cache re-reads of context re-sent on every one of 512 turns. Coding-agent cost is set by turns per task and the width of each read, not by the model's rate card.
September 3, 2026 · 12 min read
MemTrapBench tested five agent-memory frameworks against a no-memory baseline on multi-turn business dialogues. All five scored worse — 85.16% down to 71.17% at best on Gemini-3-Flash — because correct, relevant memories anchor the model to the previous task's framing.
August 23, 2026 · 12 min read