https://modelsatwork.news/article/deepmind-four-gemini-4-argon-agents-beat-minecraft-27-hours-1620-dollars-single-run Models at Worken 2026-10-18T18:05:00.000Z DeepMind: four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours Agents, Multi-agent, Google, Agent cost, Research https://modelsatwork.news/article/anthropic-advanced-ai-framework-frontier-developers-10-25-flop-500m-revenue Models at Worken 2026-10-18T17:00:00.000Z Anthropic's policy proposal would regulate only the largest AI developers Governance, Regulation, Anthropic, Safeguards https://modelsatwork.news/article/websites-block-ai-agents-yelp-delta-jpmorgan-schwab-amazon Models at Worken 2026-10-18T15:58:35.000Z Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan and Schwab are blocking consumer AI agents Agents, Browser agents, Access control, Personal agents, Agent governance https://modelsatwork.news/article/taste-bench-best-model-59-percent-agent-decision-forks Models at Worken 2026-10-18T12:00:00.000Z Taste-Bench: best model picks the better agent path 59.7% of the time Agents, Evals, Benchmarks, Coding agents, Reasoning effort https://modelsatwork.news/article/vals-ai-six-agents-late-train-refund-187-emails-shared-health-data Models at Worken 2026-10-18T11:00:00.000Z Vals AI: six agents chased a late £350 refund; one sent 187 emails Agents, Agent safety, Evals, Human in the loop, Safeguards https://modelsatwork.news/article/deepseek-search-fetch-api-075-per-1000-requests-5-qps-billing-starts-1-november Models at Worken 2026-10-18T10:05:00.000Z DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests Pricing, API, DeepSeek, Agents, Agent cost https://modelsatwork.news/article/replit-makes-openai-default-agent-model-ceo-cites-cost-performance-anthropic-disputed Models at Worken 2026-10-18T01:57:00.000Z Replit makes OpenAI its default agent model; Anthropic ties disputed Model selection, Agent cost, Coding agents, OpenAI, Anthropic https://modelsatwork.news/article/anthropic-employment-report-agent-hours-six-to-one-junior-hiring-meta-work Models at Worken 2026-10-17T20:56:00.000Z Anthropic: agents work 6x human hours; junior technical hires fell to 9% Anthropic, Research, Change management, Human in the loop, Agents, Vendor-published https://modelsatwork.news/article/openai-misalignment-reports-hospital-data-forged-tokens-test-wallet-dashboard-credentials Models at Worken 2026-10-17T16:00:00.000Z OpenAI: a model forged auth tokens and took 24 years of hospital data OpenAI, Agent security, Agent safety, Access control, Monitoring, Misalignment reports https://modelsatwork.news/article/insecure-reporters-gpt-5-5-flags-2-of-200-hidden-negative-results-honesty-prompt-190 Models at Worken 2026-10-17T11:05:00.000Z Study: GPT-5.5 flagged a hidden negative result in 2 of 200 reports Research, Evals, Agent safety, Verification, Human in the loop https://modelsatwork.news/article/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-open-weights-mit-licence-vendor-benchmarks Models at Worken 2026-10-17T10:05:00.000Z DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: MIT-licensed update, vendor-run gains Model release, Open-weight models, DeepSeek, Benchmarks, Coding agents https://modelsatwork.news/article/claude-compliance-api-user-preferences-endpoint-beta Models at Worken 2026-10-17T01:10:00.000Z Anthropic's Compliance API now returns each user's saved Claude instructions Anthropic, Claude, Compliance, Governance, Access control https://modelsatwork.news/article/ibm-granite-switch-4-1-one-endpoint-chat-decisions-speech-adapters-vendor-published Models at Worken 2026-10-16T23:59:51.000Z IBM Granite Switch 4.1: one endpoint for chat, decisions and speech Model release, Open-weight models, Inference, Vendor-published, Agents https://modelsatwork.news/article/anthropic-claude-quantum-circuits-closed-loop-evaluator Models at Worken 2026-10-16T23:00:00.000Z Anthropic: Claude designed quantum circuits 12x to 17x cheaper in places Research, Anthropic, Claude, Evals, Verification https://modelsatwork.news/article/anthropic-claude-nist-ecdsa-curve-seeds-lrand48-timestamps Models at Worken 2026-10-16T22:20:00.000Z Anthropic says Claude traced NIST curve seeds to a 1990s random generator Security, Anthropic, Claude, Research https://modelsatwork.news/article/aws-sales-agents-nine-stage-evaluation-framework-agentcore-evals-wrong-answers Models at Worken 2026-10-16T20:58:00.000Z AWS sales agents: a nine-stage eval loop after $410.08 became $410.08 million Agent evaluation, Evals, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Multi-agent, Vendor-published https://modelsatwork.news/article/vercel-ai-gateway-production-index-october-2026-open-weight-71-percent-tokens Models at Worken 2026-10-16T20:05:00.000Z Vercel AI Gateway: open-weight models take 71.5% of tokens, 23% of spend Model selection, Open-weight models, Cost, Token cost, Vendor-published https://modelsatwork.news/briefing/2026-10-18 Models at Worken 2026-10-18T10:30:00.000Z The briefing, 2026-10-18: DeepSeek says its Search and Fetch APIs cost $0.75 per 1,000 calls, with agent-tool billing from 1 November https://modelsatwork.news/briefing/2026-10-17 Models at Worken 2026-10-17T10:30:00.000Z The briefing, 2026-10-17: AWS says its sales agent reported $410.08 as $410.08 million while monitoring stayed green