This week in AI — 2 stories

This week, two new research papers arrive at the same moment from opposite directions - one showing how far agentic AI systems have come, the other showing how much we've left unfinished. You'll learn how Orchestra-o1 pushes the state of the art in coordinating AI agents across text, images, audio, and video, and why that progress makes the findings of the ICML safety audit all the more urgent: the frameworks most developers are already building on have no meaningful containment guardrails baked in.