AI Morning Brief

September 30, 2026 · Since the previous edition · 7 stories from 6 sources

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Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists computationally search a space far larger than intuition allows and prioritize hypotheses before they reach the lab. Experimental results provide important feedback, helping researchers sharpen future research directions. The post Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology appeared first on Microsoft Research .

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Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced RRSI, a framework that lets LLM agents rewrite their own prompts, tools and memory while model weights stay frozen. It adds a leakage critic, a noise floor, a cost rule and pruning so gains carry over to new tasks. With Claude Opus 4.8, Terminal-Bench 2.1...

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OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers

OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser. It works across 4,000+ apps through ChatGPT plugins and keeps going after you log off. Is it deployable today? Yes, as a managed product. Dots...

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DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

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Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team

We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so in 6%. Although GLM-5.3 performs below Claude Mythos Preview here, a meaningful threshold has clearly been crossed: earlier models, like Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.2, do not succeed in any of them. — Anthropic Frontier Red Team , GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities Tags: anthropic , generative-ai , ai-security-research , glm , ai , ai-in-china , llms

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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…

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