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Microsoft Research has open-sourced Agensh, a multi-agent coding harness that ditches the central orchestrator most frameworks rely on. Instead, each of up to one thousand twenty-four agents picks its own sub-task, shares findings, and merges code into a shared Git repository. It's a genuinely different architectural bet on how AI systems might coordinate at scale.

Shifting to security, Cognition has released an open-source plugin called Devin Vulnerability Fixes, targeting three critical remote code execution advisories. Those include a CVSS ten-point-zero GitLab bug and a Node.js security release from October of this year. The plugin runs inside Devin or any coding agent that reads SKILL.md files, making it broadly accessible without much setup overhead.

Meanwhile, the UK government has announced eight hundred million dollars in AI security funding, a significant commitment that signals how seriously British policymakers are treating the intersection of artificial intelligence and national infrastructure. The details are still emerging, but the scale of the investment puts the UK among the more aggressive state actors in this space.

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