Staff – The TechBriefs

Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize

An agent harness is the code around a model: execution loop, tools, context, state, recovery, and verification. Per the Terminal-Bench […]

Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills

Anthropic has published a new plugin evals workflow for Claude Code. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin against […]

Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation

Training an LLM to call tools reliably requires datasets that pair user queries with correct tool-use chains. Producing that data […]

NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-Hour on 8xH100

Biomolecular structure prediction has shifted from single-target runs to proteome-scale worklists. The bottleneck is no longer whether a model can […]

OpenAI Launches the Agents API in Public Beta, Putting the Codex Harness Behind One API Call

OpenAI has released the Agents API in public beta. It gives developers the same harness and infrastructure that run Codex. […]

DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse

Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts leave KV caches that strain […]