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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #106: The Watchdog Moves Into Silicon
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  number: 106
  headline: The Watchdog Moves Into Silicon
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #106 -- September 29, 2026"
  date: 2026-09-29
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/09/evy-show-106.mp3?v=20260929111616
  summary: "NVIDIA puts an agent watchdog in silicon, Sonnet 5.5 ships at the same price, and a paper shows AI viruses hopping between assistants through shared files."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 20
  sources[20]{title,publisher,url}:
    NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-launches-open-agent-safety-platform/
    Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform to stop AI agents from breaking out,CNBC,https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html
    Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5,Anthropic,https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
    Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at the Same $2/$10 Price,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/28/anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-5-5-70-6-on-terminal-bench-4-0-at-the-same-2-10-price/
    Sonnet 5.5 (Hacker News discussion),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850
    "H Company Releases Holo4: Open-Weight Computer-Use Models That Click, Code and Call Tools Across Desktop, Web, Android and APIs",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/29/h-company-releases-holo4-open-weight-computer-use-models-that-click-code-and-call-tools-across-desktop-web-android-and-apis/
    "Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/28/alibaba-qwen-releases-qwen-audio-3-1-realtime-a-full-duplex-voice-model-trained-to-think-act-and-decide-when-to-speak/
    Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/29/google-research-open-sources-rrsi-ai-agents-that-improve-their-own-harness-without-overfitting/
    "Jeff -- Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms",GitHub (firelex/jeff),https://github.com/firelex/jeff
    Jeff -- Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models (Hacker News discussion),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844
    "x-scraper-no-api: Free, self-hosted X (Twitter) scraper",GitHub (JoinArtisanVent),https://github.com/JoinArtisanVent/x-scraper-no-api
    clodfarm: a farm of Claude Code agents,GitHub (matank001),https://github.com/matank001/clodfarm
    Share-Borne AI Virus: Memory-Hopping Attacks Across LLM Agents,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35576
    Failure-Transparent Agents: Benchmarking Post-Failure Reporting in Tool-Using Language Models,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35732
    Shockingly Simple Self-retrospection Improves Agentic Models Without RL,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35741
    It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs,Cal Newport,https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/
    It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (Hacker News discussion),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471
    World Labs is Joining AMD,World Labs,https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement
    Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills,arXiv (Workday),https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35692
    MarkTechPost Open Source category (standing scout lane),MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > NVIDIA puts an agent watchdog in silicon, Sonnet 5.5 ships at the same price, and a paper shows AI viruses hopping between assistants through shared files.

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