Day: April 30, 2026

Alibaba’s Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by environmental noise.  To overcome this challenge, researchers…

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One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool Runpod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev

Runpod, the high-performance cloud computing and GPU platform designed specifically for AI development, today launched a new open source, MIT licensed, enterprise-friendly Python programming tool called Runpod Flash — and it is poised to make creation, iteration and deployment of AI systems inside and outside of foundation model labs much faster. The tool aims to…

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Why OpenAI’s ‘goblin’ problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

AI is more than a technology — it’s magic. Don’t believe me? Why, then, is one of the leading companies in the space, OpenAI, publishing entire official, corporate blog posts about goblins? To understand, we first have to go back to earlier this week, on Monday, April 27, 2026, when a developer under the handle…

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Claude Code, Copilot and Codex all got hacked. Every attacker went for the credential, not the model.

On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code spilled onto the public npm registry, and within hours, Adversa found Claude Code silently ignored its own deny rules once a command exceeded 50…

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Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously detect business signals across Gmail, Gong, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Slack — and execute complex multi-step workflows without any human initiating the process….

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