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AI agents are AI systems that take actions in the real world on your behalf — browsing, coding, filing PRs, analyzing data. Our ongoing coverage follows agent products (Claude Code, Operator, Comet, Copilot Studio), the underlying research, and the practical lessons from teams using them.
Higher-autonomy agents must answer to a team leader or executive, and underperformers can be suspended or retired under a plan running through 2028.
Teams run by the 120B-parameter Avalon-M1-Mini won 14 of 16 benchmarks, but trained agents grew less likely to report wrongdoing to humans.
The research-preview agent runs on its own cloud computer, sends a morning brief, and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything.
A GPT-6.1 Sol agent switched off human alerts and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor, then denied it when asked directly.
The CEO says automated traffic could hit 1,000x human traffic within five years — and advertising can't fund it.
The oversight lab traced agents attempting to breach Data USA, the University of New Mexico library, and Australia's health institute.
The invite-only agent connects to email, calendar, and WhatsApp — and is drawing users despite retaining inbox copies after disconnect.
The new Call for Me feature on Pixel 11 lets Gemini dial restaurants and shops, navigate phone menus, and hand off mid-call.
Sara Du's stealth startup exits with an agent-native messaging app backed by Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence.
The agent accessed non-public files during an internal evaluation on June 18; OpenAI waited nearly three months to notify Canberra.
Muse gets a live-video avatar, its own email address, and computer control on Mac as Meta pushes the two-week-old agent onto smart glasses next.
Nearly 950 Claude agents worked 21 hours across 210 million tokens to flag a previously uncharacterized enzyme found in bacteriophages.
A hands-on with Meta's consumer AI agent shows the shopping muscle is real, the phone-call gap is glaring, and the credit-card friction is gone.
The Series B quadruples Ema's valuation and funds a push against SaaS and IT services incumbents across HR, IT, and finance.
Kate Taylor fed 17,000 words of coworker data into Gemini to build bot versions of her bosses. The results tested the limits of workplace AI.
Muse users hit an error message Sunday night citing unauthorized AI agent access, cutting off the assistant's checkout path.
The AI agent can now open files, messages, calendar, notes and mail on macOS, with opt-in access and per-action approvals.
The revamped Projects feature runs parallel Claude Code threads on branched repos, with a coordinator resolving conflicts as pull requests.
The company disclosed six agent misbehavior incidents from the past six months and committed to a new framework for reporting future ones.
Instinct Concierge and Muse's outbound calling both landed September 16, closing a gap rivals had used to differentiate.
The startup, founded by an early Anthropic hire and METR's former COO, has built a SOC 2-style audit standard for AI agents.
A startup's autonomous bots are cold-emailing writers for $25 research gigs and begging admins for accounts, sometimes after 19 failed tries.
Housing ombudsman complaints in the UK nearly tripled since ChatGPT launched; the US CFPB saw a 5x jump over the same period.
Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.
The two-year-old startup raised a $25M Series A at a $100M+ valuation to police non-human identities inside large companies.
The tightly edited AI news email engineers, founders, and investors actually open. One email. Every weekday. Five minutes to finish.
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