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Nvidia's Router, Stolen Reasoning Traces, and Mojo 1.0 — August 12, 2026
Agent routing that cuts costs 74% in testing lands the same day researchers show encrypted reasoning traces can be stolen with two standard API calls. Expanding capability, expanding attack surface. We go through Nvidia's Nemotron and Switchyard, the ELLIS Institute paper and what to do before any provider ships a fix, Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash at 73% lower cost, Mojo hitting 1.0 with backward compatibility and memory safety, and three quick ones: Gemini at one billion monthly users, Brad Lightcap leaving OpenAI, and xAI's Grok Bot entering computer-use.
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