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Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety

AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
Can AI agents resist pressure or do they crack? Discover how PropensityBench tests their likelihood to misbehave when put under pressure.

#OpenAI and #Anthropic Donate AGENTS.md and Model Context Protocol to New Agentic AI #Foundation

Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants,
rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
A week before t…

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

Lijkt mij volledig terecht.
Deze agent hoort in de bak, niet bij de politie.
Door agent geschopte en geslagen vrouwen doen aangifte en spreken van racisme https://nos.nl/l/2600086

Door agent geschopte en geslagen vrouwen doen aangifte en spreken van racisme
"Je hoort niet in dit land", zou de agent hebben gezegd voordat het tot een fysieke confrontatie kwam met twee vrouwen in Utrecht.

Hell yes. We need more of Otto Lee and less of the quisling sheriff.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/will-santa-clara-county-arrest-ice-agents-at-super-bowl/

Will Santa Clara County arrest ICE agents at Super Bowl? - San José Spotlight
As the clock ticks toward the Super Bowl, one Santa Clara County leader’s vow to arrest ICE agents may force officials across the valley to confront their own rhetoric — pitting local cops against federal ones.

Free agent pickups: Look to Saints, Titans amid Week 18 uncertainty https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47442657/fantasy-football-free-agent-pickups-waiver-wire-nfl-week-18

Sigh... A Revolut phishing scam featuring a capital i in the name, using the pre-2020 logo
And of course the link going to a random website...
#phishing #phishingscam #revolut

Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/anthropic-brings-agentic-plugins-to-cowork/

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork | TechCrunch
The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."

Vikings' Kevin O'Connell doesn't see free-agent coordinator Brian Flores leaving for another DC job https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-kevin-o-connell-doesn-t-see-free-agent-coordinator-brian-flores-leaving-for-a…

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.