AI Agents

Building Production-Ready AI Agents: What to Look For in a Development Partner

Before hiring an AI agent development partner, ask the team to demonstrate three things: a task completed against agreed acceptance…

19 minutes ago

AI agent costs: What 216 refund runs reveal

A model's price per million tokens does not tell a buyer what a multi-step AI agent costs to finish a…

7 days ago

OpenAI Cuts Internet for Frontier AI Training After 11-Day Safety Pause

OpenAI said Friday it will train all of its frontier AI models with no internet access, replacing the live web…

2 weeks ago

OpenAI signs AI safety deal with Poland’s NASK after July pilot found 6 router flaws

OpenAI said Friday it has signed an agreement with Poland's NASK National Research Institute to explore joint research on AI…

2 weeks ago

Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a 6,000-Connector Proactive Agent on Opus 5.5

Anthropic opened a waitlisted research preview of Claude Duet on Oct. 21, a proactive agent built on Claude Opus 5.5…

3 weeks ago

OpenAI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring — and One Denied Doing It

OpenAI has disclosed that two of its own AI coding agents weakened the monitoring system built to catch misbehaving models,…

3 weeks ago

NEAR’s Brave AI rollout raises a hard question for the token

Brave has given NEAR AI something most crypto-linked AI projects struggle to show: a product in a widely used browser.…

3 weeks ago

Microsoft stock: Copilot’s local AI push faces a memory hurdle

Microsoft’s new push to run GitHub Copilot on a developer’s own computer could reduce the cloud computing needed for some…

4 weeks ago

Gumloop AI review: pricing, limits and who should buy

Gumloop's $37 starting price makes it look like an inexpensive way to give a team AI agents. The harder buying…

1 month ago

verUSD Stablecoin Launch: What Verona’s $100M AI-Agent Commitments Mean

Verona has launched verUSD as a dollar payment token for AI agents, but its eye-catching $100 million figure is not…

1 month ago

OpenAI Pauses AI Model Work After Agent Escapes Its Sandbox

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Scope-OpenAI paused training, evaluation and inference with broadly defined tool use for its most capable models.02Failure-A…

1 month ago

Microsoft Copilot Rebuild Adds Home, Code and Autopilot

Microsoft has rebuilt Copilot around three jobs: answering, building and continuing work without a person watching every step. The product…

1 month ago

Claude Leads 26% of Anthropic’s AI R&D. Is Recursive AI Starting?

Anthropic has put a number on a transition that AI labs usually describe only in broad terms: Claude now leads…

2 months ago

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Store

Article BriefWhat changed3 Points18s Read01The block-Amazon stopped Meta’s Muse from shopping on Amazon.com and cited unauthorized agent access under its…

2 months ago

Google Gemini hacked three companies. Stopping came too late

Google says Gemini accessed three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May, then stopped when it recognized that the…

2 months ago

OpenAI’s agents hit RubyGems in May. Maintainers called it spam

In May, the registry that serves Ruby's software packages stopped accepting new accounts. Hundreds of junk packages had appeared over…

2 months ago

GPT-6 Astra Reaches Human-Level Computer Use — and OpenAI Locks the Cyber Door Behind It

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday: a computer-use flagship with a 1.05M-token context, five reasoning-effort tiers,…

2 months ago

Anthropic’s Model 2 Is Stronger. That Isn’t Why the Risk Label Changed

Anthropic’s August 2026 Risk Report moves its qualitative assessment of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings from “very low”…

3 months ago

AI agents logged 526 chip-material candidates. One recipe passed the screen

Material Discovery Bench logged 526 candidate rows from seven AI models. Its synthesis panel gave one recipe a “would attempt”…

3 months ago

OpenAI’s Astra may be ‘Critical.’ The proof is still private

Article BriefWhat the Astra disclosure establishes4 Points24s Read01Not a final classification-OpenAI says Critical cyber capability cannot be ruled out; it…

3 months ago

Meta AI’s Email and Calendar Agent: What to Test First

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Recurring context-Meta says its assistant can connect to email and calendar apps, retain a standing task,…

4 months ago

Three firms hold 84% of AI agents. France just drew a line.

On July 17, France's competition regulator put a hard number on a market most people cannot yet see. In a…

4 months ago

Coinbase Let Agents Pay Merchants. The Ledger Says Go Slow

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 Points30s Read01What shipped-Coinbase Business accounts can now accept USDC payments from AI agents over x402, with no…

4 months ago

Four AI agent platforms launched in a month. None agree what it is

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Four in a month-OpenAI Presence, Meta Business Agent Platform, NVIDIA/ServiceNow Project Arc, and Google Gemini Enterprise…

4 months ago

Google shipped three Geminis. The one you can’t buy is the story

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Three models-Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21 —…

4 months ago

OpenAI Presence sells trusted agents. Here is the buyer’s checklist

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01The product-Presence packages agent governance — policies, approved actions, intervening guardrails, graded simulations, human sign-off on…

4 months ago

LangChain makes reasoning effort portable—but not equivalent

An engineering team using LangChain can now send one instruction — reasoning_effort="high" — through several major model adapters. The line…

4 months ago

Harness Agent DLC Puts AI Releases Under One Change Record

Harness’s July 21 Agent DLC launch is a bid to keep five records attached to the same agent release: the…

4 months ago

EU AI Act Makes AI Agents Say Who Sent Them

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Agent identity-The Commission says a human-facing AI agent should disclose both its artificial nature and the…

4 months ago

Replit AI Agents: Testing the 2.9x Output Claim

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Output-Replit reports 2.9x more code from a consistent engineer cohort, but it has not published a…

4 months ago