AgentStack Daily

OpenAI ships Codex rust-v0.144.3 and rust-v0.144.2; vLLM 0.25.0 promotes Model Runner V2 to default for dense models. Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft by ex-employees. Plus Freya-TTS hits Turkish speech with a 183M flow-matching DiT, SAGEAgent cuts glioma diagnostic burden 55%, Agora moves from a router to an auction over reasoning steps, a two-agent system posts 0.402 on QANTA 2026, PAC-ACT trains Action Chunking Transformer policies with chunk-level RL, and Semantic Pareto-DQN addresses fraud collapse without resampling. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-85/

Today’s AgentStack Daily examines Codex 0.144, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna lineup, and SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 release. It also covers GPT-Live’s simultaneous listening and speaking, Mistral’s 8B Robostral Navigate model, ChatGPT Work, Microsoft Flint, and new research on continuous-control memory, citation judging, coding evaluations, proactive agents, delegated web research, procedural code retrieval, and energy-market agent testing. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-84/

Today's AgentStack Daily: Hermes Agent v2026.7.7 ships, OpenAI Codex lands rust-v0.143.0, and Claude Code CLI releases 2.1.197. AionLabs ships Aion-3.0-Mini roleplay on OpenRouter. Kokoro runs high-fidelity TTS on low-power CPUs. Rowboat debuts on Show HN with 162 points as a Claude Desktop alternative. Security: GitHub AI agent prompt injection leaks private repositories. Plus early-failure probes for agent loops, Danus fact-graph memory, FreqDepthKV, DepthWeave-KV, RuBench 1.0, VAORA, and the Anthropic developer-relations API migration story. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-83/

Claude Code CLI 2.1.195 ships as Tencent's Hy3 and Nex AGI's Nex-N2-Mini land on OpenRouter. GLM 5.2 stokes margin-collapse debate; Anthropic publishes a Global Workspace Theory interpretability analysis. A Claude Code workspace session leak and a goodwill-erosion post trend on Hacker News, and an archive of leaked agent system prompts climbs GitHub. Ternlight ships a 7MB browser-side WASM embedding model. Research: Graph Sparse Sampling, weak-to-strong on-policy distillation, Cortex's bidirectional VLM-VLA paper, Graph-as-Policy multi-agent industrial training, and a cleanliness study on style and coding agents. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-82/

Today's AgentStack Daily covers GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra heading to Codex alongside a GitHub-listed Code workspace update, plus Synthetic Sciences' OpenScience AI workbench for scientific research. Independent Build ships a 270M-parameter open-weights LM, Qwen's staggered release reignites local model viability questions, and an Ollama-only local web agent took r/ollama's front page. Research picks include cross-PR attacks on coding agents, multi-agent off-the-record debate channels, and self-evolving rubrics for agentic skill evaluation. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-81/

Today's AgentStack Daily covers a GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token regression, a Claude Code session and cache cross-contamination issue on shared hosts, and Mistral 1.5 going out the door. Transformers 5.13 adds Kimi K2.5 through K2.7 architecture support. The USAF releases a method for MoE fine-tuning on 12GB consumer GPUs. Cheyenne pulls Meta data center water discharge permits after contamination findings, and Interfaze open-sources a diffusion ASR adapter for DiffusionGemma. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-80/

The Agent Stack Release Readout this week leads with Hermes Agent v2026.7.1 shipping alongside Claude Code CLI 2.1.193, with Kimi K2.7 Code reaching GA inside GitHub Copilot. ZCode wraps GLM-5.2 and lands on the Hacker News front page, Leanstral 1.5 brings open-weights Lean proof generation, and Alibaba bars Claude Code at work over backdoor concerns. Jamesob's GitHub guide curates locally-runnable SOTA LLMs, WebBrain ships a local-first browser agent for Chrome and Firefox, ReContext publishes a training-free long-context harness, and Snorkel releases Senior SWE-Bench. Plus ghealth CLI, Program-as-Weights, DramaSR-532K, AgenticSTS, and the Safari MCP server. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-79/

Agent Stack Daily covers the return of Claude Fable 5: US restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models were dropped on June 30, and the Mythos-class flagship is back on OpenRouter with 1M context, multimodal input, and reasoning support. OpenClaw v2026.6.11 and OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.5 shipped, and Claude Sonnet 5 hit OpenRouter with 1M context alongside Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite. Research includes the Orca unified world latent space paper, the Agents-A1 35B MoE, BlockPilot on diffusion speculative decoding, generative skill composition, and TRIAGE on role-typed credit assignment. OmniRoute consolidates 231 providers behind one endpoint. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-78/

Today's AgentStack Daily covers Claude Code CLI 2.1.185, Cursor's new mobile app for steering coding agents, and Google making Gemini's personalized image generation free for US users. Also: OKX's plan to let AI agents hire and pay each other on crypto rails, Base44's custom model release, and Anthropic's California government Claude pricing cut. Plus South Korea's $550B memory fab bet, the AI jobs debate, a founder's cancer fight using AI, and an AINews segment with little to report. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-77/

Today's AgentStack Daily covers OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.4 shipping as a chores-only maintenance release, HP Inc. launching a Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI across engineering and the 100,000+ partner portal, and OpenAI + Broadcom unveiling the Jalapeño inference chip. We track a founder's Claude-based personal cancer treatment coordinator, Ford rehiring senior engineers after AI quality push stumbles, and Micron becoming Wall Street's next AI memory bet on HBM. We close with SoftBank and Sam Altman questioning Musk's orbital data center pitch and Apple Vision Pro VP Paul Meade reportedly joining OpenAI's hardware team. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-76/