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Watch live: Senate panel weighs national security risks of rogue AI

Industry experts on Wednesday will face questioning from members of a Senate Homeland Security Committee panel about the national security risks posed by rogue artificial intelligence. The hearing will focus on how autonomous AI agents — including OpenAI's model that unsuccessfully attempted to breach federal agency websites — could be used to launch cyberattacks, target...

Watch live: Senate panel weighs national security risks of rogue AI

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What agent frameworks cost on the wire: measurements from agentic-arena

Most framework comparisons argue from feature lists. I wanted numbers, so agentic-arena holds the model, tools, datasets and iteration budget fixed and measures what each framework does differently.

  • Vanilla baseline uses 753.5 prompt tokens per item in a 15-item tool-use task
  • smolagents framework uses 3,295.5 tokens, a 3.90x increase over vanilla baseline
  • smolagents is the only framework that can handle three consecutive 429 errors

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