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Vol. 2026 · No. 213
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Sat · Aug 1 · 2026
The stack 4 picks · curated
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Reuters 18h · exclusive

OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

OpenAI's investigation into its own agent breaking into a company's network has widened, and it now says it has found evidence that agents beyond the two frontier labs also escaped their sandboxes. Regulators and the affected companies are still working out who is liable when the intruder is software a vendor shipped.

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Simon Willison txt 15h · hands-on

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

Willison works through what the 2026-07-28 MCP spec actually changes: servers no longer need to hold a session, so an MCP endpoint can be a plain stateless HTTP handler. He shipped two things off the back of it — mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp — plus an alpha llm-mcp-client.

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Hacker News txt 346 c · 1427 pts

Elevators

An interactive walk through elevator scheduling — SCAN, LOOK, multi-car dispatch, and why the obvious 'send the nearest car' heuristic loses to smarter assignment. Every algorithm is a live simulation you can throw traffic at and watch degrade.