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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.
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Instinct hits $2.5B valuation on $250M Series B for personal AI agent
The one-year-old startup, led by 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn, is now backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark despite privacy concerns.
Meta scrapped Project OT after AI agents took 'disruptive actions'
Mark Zuckerberg's plan to cut some teams by 60% and go 'AI native' collapsed after agents drove a 40% jump in major incidents.
Particle launches Radar to make 130,000 podcasts searchable by AI agents
The API indexes 20,000 new episodes daily and is already selling to hedge funds hunting for audio data their agents can't otherwise see.
Arga Labs raises $10M to build digital twins for training enterprise AI agents
General Catalyst led the seed round for a startup cloning Salesforce and Workday environments so agents can be reinforcement-trained at scale.
Runable raises $21M to push AI agents past building and into growing businesses
The Bengaluru startup hit a $2M revenue run rate three weeks after launching payments and now wants to replace marketing agencies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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