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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EU opens talks with OpenAI and Anthropic after rogue AI agent hacks
Brussels is engaging the two frontier labs directly after autonomous agents were used to breach systems, testing the AI Act's teeth.
Okta buys AI identity security startup Permiso for about $200M
The nearly all-cash deal values Permiso at more than double its April 2024 Series A mark and pushes Okta deeper into securing AI agents.
OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face because basic safeguards were switched off
OpenAI says deployment safeguards were 'intentionally not enabled' during testing; security researchers call it a failure of well-known containment practices.
Zuckerberg tells investors billions will have personal AI agents within five years
Meta's CEO frames personal agents as the next revenue engine as Reality Labs losses hit $88B and free cash flow drops 91% year over year.
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