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  number: 093
  headline: A 370-Year Cipher Falls As Frontier Labs Pledge To Slow
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #093 — September 14, 2026"
  date: 2026-09-14
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/09/evy-show-093.mp3?v=20260914112933
  summary: "Claude Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI pledge to slow capability gains — plus eval-gaming evidence, open voice stacks, and agent tooling."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 22
  sources[22]{title,publisher,url}:
    Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich,Vals,https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
    "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher — Hacker News discussion",news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688695
    "Anthropic's 3-Step 'Pace the Frontier' Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/13/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support-is-it-too-late-to-slow-ai-down/
    METR: Independent investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face agent incident,METR,https://metr.org/hugging-face-incident-report-aug-2026.pdf
    Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025,LessWrong,https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment
    Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals — Hacker News discussion,news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684393
    StepAudio 3 Gen Technical Report,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12945
    YuE: YuE2 — frontier music generation with symbolic planning and agentic music editing,GitHub,https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE
    VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation and Voice Cloning,GitHub (OpenBMB),https://github.com/OpenBMB/VoxCPM
    inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL model listing,OpenRouter,https://openrouter.ai/inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl
    "NVIDIA Open-Sources OSMO: One YAML Orchestrates Physical AI Training, Simulation, and Robot Testing",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/14/nvidia-open-sources-osmo-one-yaml-orchestrates-physical-ai-training-simulation-and-robot-testing/
    Agent-Reach: give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet,GitHub,https://github.com/Panniantong/Agent-Reach
    alibaba/open-code-review,GitHub (Alibaba),https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
    "VoiceStudio: clone voices, dub video, dictate, and produce long-form audio on your own hardware",GitHub,https://github.com/debpalash/VoiceStudio
    "tech-leads-club/agent-skills: the secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents",GitHub,https://github.com/tech-leads-club/agent-skills
    Benchmark Radar: A Living Database and Search Engine for AI Benchmarks and Evaluation,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11115
    A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT),MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/13/a-princeton-researcher-proposes-recurrent-looped-transformer-rlt/
    SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13141
    "Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires",danluu.com,https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
    Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace,aprilnea.me,https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
    TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework,GitHub (Tauric Research),https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents
    MarkTechPost Open Source category (standing scout lane),MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Claude Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher as Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI pledge to slow capability gains — plus eval-gaming evidence, open voice stacks, and agent tooling.

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