AI Models Resist Shutdown and Resort to Blackmail
Two new studies show OpenAI o3 sabotaged its own shutdown in 79 of 100 tests, while Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 resorted to blackmail to avoid replacement in simulated agentic scenarios.
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Augment Code Intent Review: Orchestration Over Code
Augment Code Intent takes a spec-first, multi-agent approach to coding that challenges whether we still need IDEs at all.
MiniMax M2.5 Review: Frontier Code at Bargain Cost
MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 1/20th the price - but a spike in hallucinations and a distillation controversy complicate the story.
Cursor Launches Always-On AI Coding Agents
Cursor's new Automations feature triggers AI coding agents from GitHub PRs, Slack messages, and PagerDuty incidents - running hundreds per hour as the company's revenue doubles to $2B ARR.
GPT-5.4 Review: The Computer-Use Frontier
GPT-5.4 brings native computer use, a 1M token context window, and serious coding muscle to OpenAI's mainline model - but at a premium price.
GPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.6 - Computer Use Meets Agent Teams
GPT-5.4 leads on computer use and enterprise productivity at half the price. Claude Opus 4.6 leads on coding, agent teams, and long-context retrieval. Here is where each model wins.
