AI Agents

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…

3 days 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…

3 days 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…

5 days 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 weeks 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,…

3 weeks 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”…

1 month 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”…

2 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…

2 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,…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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 —…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 months ago

Kimi K3 Is Cheap to Call, but the Weights Are Not Here

Kimi K3’s least intimidating number is not 2.8 trillion parameters. It is the $0.30 that Moonshot AI charges for one…

2 months ago

CrewAI 1.15.3 Puts Control Hooks Inside AI Agent Runs

Article BriefKey Takeaways4 Points24s Read01Control surface-CrewAI 1.15.3 adds interception points around agent execution boundaries, including model and tool operations.02Safer default-Tool-result…

2 months ago

Grok on Amazon Bedrock Has an Enterprise Portability Catch

AWS and xAI published a hands-on Grok 4.3 tutorial on July 16, one month after the model first reached Amazon…

2 months ago

AWS OpenSearch Agent Toolkit Production Controls

AWS has put Amazon OpenSearch Service inside the same operating path that AI coding agents use to inspect and change…

2 months ago

AI Progress So Far and a 10-Year Forecast

AI progress has become hard to read because people keep trying to force five different stories into one debate. One…

4 months ago

Grok Build turns xAI into an AI coding-agent contender

xAI's newest move is not another chatbot personality, image toy, or social feed integration. Grok Build launched on May 25,…

4 months ago

Sandisk Stock and the AI Data Exhaust Trade

Article BriefKey Takeaways5 points30s read01New frame-Sandisk's sharper AI thesis is not generic SSD demand; it is the retained data trail…

5 months ago