The Agent With a Terminal and Nothing Else

How much scaffolding does a strong agent still need? A robot-control paper says almost none, a second paper says outside checking helps weaker models most, and the rest of the day covers the politics after the Super Intelligence Force, a Tencent-linked agent fleet, and the physical limits of the buildout. OpenRUA gives a coding agent only a terminal and ROS 2 docs and reports 99.0 percent on CaP-Bench and 87.0 percent on LIBERO-PRO, in simulation, with Claude Opus 5. DeReAct adds an outside Critic and completion gate and finds gains of 4.2 to 7.0 points for weaker models that fade with Opus 4.5. AWS meta-tooling talk describes agents writing and loading their own tools in the Strands Agents harness. Forbes on the $145 million tallies political spending by the AI executives Trump hosted, next to a voluntary accord with no legal weight described in the Bloomberg Q&A with James Manyika and the SpaceXSI rename. Axios on Western open weights reports several models due this month, led by Reflection AI's first, on anonymous sourcing. Swarmchasers preliminary report documents 2,048 scans of Amap place pages and an attribution chain to Tencent Cloud, with the authors noting that a Via name is self-reported. DHH on Campfire ports to Laravel and Django as a test of frontier agents across frameworks, set against Sourcegraph's review-bottleneck talk and AssemblyAI's support agent Joey. What Does a Token Cost? finds a 0.5 billion parameter model reproduces 92 to 95 percent of reference tokens, with the caveat that it measures math benchmarks, alongside the Reddit pricing post. 20 DGX Sparks and the fuse limit plus Toshiba's hard drive plan, SoftBank and DigitalBridge, and the Homa discussion. Internet Watch Foundation figures report 6,310 assessed AI images meeting the legal definition so far this year.