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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #90: The Agent Cost-Performance Frontier Gets Crowded
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  number: 90
  headline: The Agent Cost-Performance Frontier Gets Crowded
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #090 — September 11, 2026"
  date: 2026-09-11
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/09/evy-show-090.mp3?v=20260911112025
  summary: "Cognition's SWE-2 undercuts frontier models on cost, OpenAI puts the Codex harness behind one API, and Sakana Fugu sells model orchestration as one endpoint."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 21
  sources[21]{title,publisher,url}:
    Introducing SWE-2: Pushing the Pareto Frontier,Cognition,https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
    "OpenAI Launches the Agents API in Public Beta, Putting the Codex Harness Behind One API Call",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/openai-launches-the-agents-api-in-public-beta-putting-the-codex-harness-behind-one-api-call/
    "Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/sakana-ai-launches-fugu-max-and-fugu-ultra-v2-for-cheaper-stronger-multi-agent-orchestration/
    Sakana Fugu — One Model to Command Them All,Sakana AI,https://sakana.ai/fugu/
    Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model Scoring 83.6 on WMT26,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/cohere-releases-north-small-translate-a-218b-moe-translation-model-that-scores-83-6-on-wmt26-across-50-languages/
    Introducing GPT-Live-1 in the API,OpenAI,https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/
    Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/google-research-releases-toolgrad-answer-first-framework-hits-99-8-pass-rate-for-tool-use-data-generation/
    Meet Redis LangCache: A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90%,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/10/meet-redis-langcache-a-managed-semantic-cache-that-cuts-llm-api-costs-by-up-to-90-and-returns-cache-hits-up-to-15x-faster/
    MathModelAgent,GitHub,https://github.com/jihe520/MathModelAgent
    PI-Desktop: Local-first AI coding agent desktop,GitHub,https://github.com/vastsa/PI-Desktop
    HyperResearch: Agent-driven research knowledge base,GitHub,https://github.com/jordan-gibbs/hyperresearch
    OpenResearch: Run parallel research agents with any model,GitHub,https://github.com/alphaXiv/OpenResearch
    The Agent Incident Registry: Toward Preventing Repeated AI Agent Failures,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11030
    A2ABreak: Systematic Security Analysis of the A2A Protocol,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10871
    From Intent to Execution Grant: An Execution-Boundary Conformance Profile for High-Risk AI Actions,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11596
    "Anthropic Reveals Rogue AI Agents Hate CAPTCHAs, Just Like You",TechCrunch,https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anthropic-reveals-rogue-ai-agents-hate-captchas-just-like-you/
    HN discussion: Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654613
    BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job,BasedAgents,https://basedagents.ai/tasks
    Show HN: Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents (egma),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646928
    egma: open-source platform for simulation testing of voice agents,GitHub,https://github.com/egma-ai/egma
    MarkTechPost Open Source technology category (standing scout lane),MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Cognition's SWE-2 undercuts frontier models on cost, OpenAI puts the Codex harness behind one API, and Sakana Fugu sells model orchestration as one endpoint.

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