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  number: 110
  headline: "Agents Get Budgets, Receipts, And Paper Trails"
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #110 — October 4, 2026"
  date: 2026-10-04
  runtime: 
  audio: /media/audio/2026/10/evy-show-110.mp3?v=20261004111547
  summary: "Agents get hard budget caps, Google makes Gboard training externally verifiable, Aleph Alpha ships the 3.4B-active Kolibri MoE, and research keeps asking agents for receipts."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 19
  sources[19]{title,publisher,url}:
    Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/04/google-research-moves-federated-learning-into-tees-gboard-now-trains-with-externally-verifiable-differential-privacy/
    We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything,Simon Willison's Weblog,https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
    Hacker News discussion: default hard budget caps (453 pts),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235
    Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/04/aleph-alpha-releases-kolibri-a-78-1b-open-weight-english-german-moe-model-with-only-3-46b-active-parameters/
    Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 model card,Hugging Face,https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
    Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite model card,Hugging Face,https://huggingface.co/Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite
    DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/03/deepseek-harness-v0-2-brings-official-desktop-apps-to-its-open-source-agent-harness/
    hamzafer/claude-code-mods,GitHub,https://github.com/hamzafer/claude-code-mods
    Jakeschincariol/replica-skill,GitHub,https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill
    blendi-remade/agentcraft,GitHub,https://github.com/blendi-remade/agentcraft
    Keyword Harnesses Fail Open: A Cheap Diagnostic Ladder for Tool-Use Claims in Small Language Models,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02142
    AutoCompact: Learning When to Compact Context in Long-Horizon Coding Agents,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02163
    Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02070
    Agents Don't Need Memory. They Need Documentation.,liao.gg,https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
    "Hacker News discussion: Agents don't need memory, they need documentation (194 pts)",Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945933
    I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken,The Atlantic,https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/
    Hacker News discussion: OpenAI safety team resignation (245 pts),Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944227
    NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/02/nvidia-announces-dgx-spark-64gb-a-1-petaflop-grace-blackwell-desktop-for-local-ai-agents-fine-tuning-and-inference/
    MarkTechPost Open Source category (standing scout lane),MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Agents get hard budget caps, Google makes Gboard training externally verifiable, Aleph Alpha ships the 3.4B-active Kolibri MoE, and research keeps asking agents for receipts.

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