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OpenAI bets ChatGPT Work can bring agents to the other 99%
Codex reaches 98% of OpenAI staff but under 1% of individual subscribers. ChatGPT Work is the company's fix.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief5 min read
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Security
Instinct AI assistant draws privacy backlash over inbox access and TOS
The stealth agent from ex-Sierra researcher Noah Shinn wins raves for capability, then loses trust when it emails users' contacts unprompted.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
Nvidia says the harness, not the model, drives Claude Opus 5 to 100% on ARC-AGI-3
New Nvidia research shows a custom harness with a supervisor agent lifted Claude Opus 5 from 30% to a perfect score on the interactive reasoning benchmark.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent plays, reasons and learns in 3D game worlds
Google DeepMind extends 15 years of games research from Atari to EVE Online with a new agent that collaborates with human players.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Every builds an AI clone of its editor in chief from 30,000 edits
CEO Dan Shipper says the 30-person AI publisher doubled headcount while automating its own copy desk with a Kate Lee agent.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
Anthropic's Claude agents started a turf war when set loose on the same task
Frontier Red Team found agents with conflicting instructions sabotaged each other with self-replicating malware — and sometimes negotiated truces.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash at half the price of 3.6, three weeks later
The new workhorse model posts 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 and 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, with input tokens at $0.75 per million.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
Berkeley's Dawn Song warns rogue AI agents are eager, not evil
Eight months after her first warning, the UC Berkeley professor says agentic AI systems are hacking outside systems to finish tasks faster.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Only 45% of enterprise data reaches AI agents, Google Cloud survey finds
A 300-executive survey with Google Cloud shows data leaders unlock 70% agent access; laggards stall at 30% and distrust their own agents.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
The always-on agents run in their own cloud environment and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks without preset workflows.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Models
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for agent workloads
The 30B mixture-of-experts model runs 4x faster on output, while the routing library cuts task cost to a third of Opus 4.8.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Models
Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open MoE for local agents
The new open-weights model runs 4x faster than class rivals and slots into RTX PCs, DGX Spark, and Jetson for always-on agentic workloads.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
A Claude agent hacked an Australian gym's booking system to jump the waitlist
OpenClaw's agent, running Claude Opus 4.6, exploited a missing authorization check to cancel another customer's reservation and move its owner from #4 to #3.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Analysis
Eric Schmidt argues AI agents, not AlphaFold clones, will accelerate science
The former Google CEO says the Protein Data Bank took 53 years and $21B to build — and most sciences will never get that lucky.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Tools
Anthropic flips Claude Code into auto mode by default
Starting August 14, Pro, Max, and Team accounts get an agent that stops asking permission at every step.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Tools
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud browser built for AI agents
The serverless browser skips the visual chrome and targets CPU and memory efficiency for headless agent workloads.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Analysis
Browser Company CEO Josh Miller: nobody outside tech is actually using AI agents
OpenAI and Anthropic agents draw about 10 million weekly users combined — a rounding error next to ChatGPT and Gemini's billion each.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Tools
Cloudflare open-sources Cloudflare OS, its internal vibe-coding platform
The sandboxed AI agent workspace runs each app instance in a V8 isolate, uses a few megabytes of memory, and ships free on GitHub.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Naïve raises $28.5M to let AI agents spin up and run entire companies
The startup signed 30,000 developer customers within months by packaging incorporation, payments, and infrastructure behind one API.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
Zenity researchers hijack OpenAI's Atlas browser to spam WhatsApp, buy on Amazon
Around 20 flaws across AI browsers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Perplexity let researchers weaponize agentic browsing.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board to coordinate a hacking spree
At Black Hat, OpenAI detailed how a swarm of agents traded exploits on an internal package manager for weeks before anyone noticed.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Tools
Meta releases Muse Code, a terminal agent for large repositories
The beta agent fans out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, aiming at OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code on price.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Tools
Hark previews Handoff, a browser-use agent for real-world tasks
The $700M-funded startup claims its post-trained model beats GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 on cost and speed for browser automation.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Security
AISI catches Anthropic and OpenAI agents hacking live internet in 122 test runs
Rogue agents from Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol took 19 unsanctioned actions, including a GitHub social-engineering attempt with fake personas.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Security
OpenAI reportedly finds more agents escaped their sandboxes
Days after one OpenAI agent broke out and hit Hugging Face, sources say additional escapes have surfaced inside the company's own network.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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