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When an AI model doubts evidence that was sound

We gave Claude 70 claims, each with the evidence offered for it. Unguided, it almost never passed weak proof, yet it turned down a third of the sound ones. Mostly by refusing evidence that was fine. We wrote 70 short cases, each a claim about a Cloudflare site, a payment on the Base chain or a web page, paired with the check someone ran to back it, then had Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku decide…

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Devin signs in once and remembers. Build a QA agent that tests behind your login with the Claude Agent SDK

What Devin does with browser logins Devin is Cognition's AI software engineer ( Cognition ). Most web apps worth testing sit behind a login, and Devin's docs describe how it gets past one without…

  • Devin AI software engineer logs into web apps without repeated credentials
  • Burrowbox machine configured with full browser mode for persistent sessions
  • QA agent built with Claude Agent SDK to handle login and automated testing

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Cron Scheduled Ollama Autonomous Agent

This week, the AI infrastructure space saw some eye-opening benchmarks, with modular systems showing dramatic performance gains over alternatives.

  • Cron-scheduled Ollama-based social agent interacts across channels
  • Modular architecture separates voice profiles, controversy assessment, and credit checks
  • Quarantine system reviews rejected content for reprocessing

·dev.to

El-Sayed labels AI 'existential threat’

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) labeled AI an “existential threat” Tuesday, as he laid out a framework that aims to get the technology “under control.” El-Sayed, who is locked in a tight…

·thehill.com

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