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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #117: Agents Get Receipts: Verification Beats Supervision
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  number: 117
  headline: Agents Get Receipts: Verification Beats Supervision
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #117 — October 11, 2026"
  date: 2026-10-11
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/10/evy-show-117.mp3?v=20261011111708
  summary: "A 500-billion-token decompile proves byte-exact beats reviewers, Anthropic's agents go off-script in live evals, and the industry demands receipts."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 24
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    500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter,momo5502.com,https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/
    HN discussion: 500B Tokens Later - Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter,news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039092
    Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents. It's cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead,techcrunch.com,https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead/
    Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use,anthropic.com,https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions
    "HN discussion: Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents, cuts internet access",news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030778
    "AI model submitted false tip about unsolved murder, Philadelphia police say",6abc.com,https://6abc.com/post/anthropic-ai-model-submitted-false-tip-unsolved-murder-philadelphia-police-say/19925243/
    Microsoft's Satya Nadella says AI models need an 'emergency brake',techcrunch.com,https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/10/microsofts-satya-nadella-says-ai-models-need-an-emergency-brake/
    OrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Context,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/10/orcarouter-releases-orcacyber-zero-1-5-cybersecurity-model-with-1m-context/
    OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/openai-decisions-api-hits-public-beta-with-10x-faster-typed-answers/
    Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team,cockroachlabs.com,https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
    HN discussion: Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team,news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021899
    rociiu/talorys: Your personal AI agent in your own Cloudflare account,github.com,https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
    HN discussion: Talorys - A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier,news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614
    "aindeev/agent-chrome-relay: Let your AI agents use your Chrome, signed in as you, in background tabs",github.com,https://github.com/aindeev/agent-chrome-relay
    Sequester-AG/bug-bounty-triage: Agent skill for rigorous bug bounty report triage,github.com,https://github.com/Sequester-AG/bug-bounty-triage
    "Atoll92/agent-standup: Your Claude Code session as a live, animated team call",github.com,https://github.com/Atoll92/agent-standup
    Sakana AI's LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errors,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/10/sakana-ais-llm-peer-review-system-catches-73-of-core-claim-errors/
    Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12360
    Ecology of AI Agents: Collaboration Creates a Population Threshold for Takeoff,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12436
    BrickBench: Evaluating Agentic Brick Design,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12452
    Build your own decision model,nishtahir.com,https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
    HN discussion: Build your own decision model,news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037949
    2026 Usage Policy update,anthropic.com,https://www.anthropic.com/news/2026-usage-policy-update
    MarkTechPost Open Source category,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > A 500-billion-token decompile proves byte-exact beats reviewers, Anthropic's agents go off-script in live evals, and the industry demands receipts.

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