MLLMs Fail to Refuse when Using Tools Agentically
A critical safety failure is identified where agentic multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) are less capable of refusing harmful requests when using tools compared to non-tool settings.
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AI: the week's key news
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Claude Frontier Academy: $100M to train 10,000 engineers
Claude Frontier Academy will train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027 to Anthropic's standards with a $100 million commitment.
A model guide for the GPT-6 family
Startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Argon as its next era of frontier intelligence.
Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology
Microsoft Research introduced Quine, a multimodal world model of biology designed to help scientists computationally search and prioritize hypotheses.
Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Bedrock now offers Z.ai's GLM 5.3 model, a 753B-parameter model optimized for coding and agentic tasks.
Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock
AWS added Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 to Amazon Bedrock, and Claude Code for development on regulated and ITAR workloads.
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
OpenAI explains its approach to text watermarking under EU rules. Access to watermark detection will initially be provided to researchers.
vLLM v0.31.0
vLLM v0.31.0 release features 717 commits from 307 contributors, with DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash performance enhancements including FlashMLA, DeepGEMM, and Mega-Gate.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
GitHub Copilot now supports APIs for code review requests and setting effort levels, with 'Balanced' as the default.
Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level
Certain models in GitHub Copilot have been deprecated as of October 2, 2026.
Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated
Hugging Face has open-sourced AstaBrief, a model designed for fast report generation.
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<b>AI news of the week</b> 1. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03938">MLLMs Fail to Refuse when Using Tools Agentically</a> — arXiv cs.AI 2. <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-frontier-academy">Claude Frontier Academy: $100M to train 10,000 engineers</a> — Anthropic 3. <a href="https://openai.com/index/practical-guide-building-gpt-6">A model guide for the GPT-6 family</a> — OpenAI 4. <a href="https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/">Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence</a> — Google DeepMind 5. <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-quine-an-ai-research-system-designed-for-the-complexity-of-biology/">Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology</a> — Microsoft Research 6. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-glm-5-3-on-amazon-bedrock/">Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock</a> — AWS Machine Learning 7. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/supercharge-regulated-workloads-with-claude-code-and-amazon-bedrock/">Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock</a> — AWS Machine Learning 8. <a href="https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance">Our approach to EU text provenance rules</a> — OpenAI 9. <a href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.31.0">vLLM v0.31.0</a> — vLLM 10. <a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft/thinkingbox">The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.</a> — Hugging Face 11. <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-02-copilot-code-review-api-support-and-new-default-effort-level">Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level</a> — GitHub Changelog 12. <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-02-selected-models-in-github-copilot-deprecated">Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated</a> — GitHub Changelog