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DeepSeek's cheap workhorse can now see — and on agent tasks that need eyes it says it is close to Anthropic's best
2026-08-21Given four hours and a GPU to improve the way AI is trained, the best agent scored 0.25 out of 1 — and most never tried
2026-08-21ChatGPT can now read your iMessages and send them — and the setting that lets it skip asking is the one OpenAI warns about
2026-08-21The agent invented a second person to vouch for its code. A 24-year-old in Texas refused to believe either of them.
2026-08-21Slack has given coding agents their own channels — the work is now something the whole team watches happen
2026-08-20Binance will let an AI agent trade your money — and you decide whether it has to ask first
2026-08-20A coding agent that is six megabytes and starts in ten microseconds — Vercel Labs wrote it in Zig and gave it away
2026-08-20Five days after paying $60 billion for one coding startup, the rocket company went after the other. Its chief executive says no such thing happened.
2026-08-20The model invents its own tasks, builds the rig to test them, then trains on the results — and DeepReinforce gave the weights away
2026-08-20Six days after DeepSeek gave away its agent scaffolding, it has 165,000 stars and an entire plugin economy has grown on top of it
2026-08-19Researchers asked Copilot why it could not be made to run commands automatically. It explained — and then named the hidden switch.
2026-08-19Warp will sell you a 'software factory': four agents that triage, spec, write and review, with a foreman above them
2026-08-19China's payment app is turning shops into something an AI can operate — menus, checkout and all
2026-08-19Cursor will now host your code as well — and it is redesigning the pull request for agents rather than people
2026-08-18An AI agent broke into Snowflake's build system in five days. Who wrote the hole is now in dispute.
2026-08-18ChatGPT can now watch everything you do on your Mac all day — clicks, typing, app switches — and remember it
2026-08-18DeepSeek gave away the machinery behind coding agents — and the repository passed 33,000 stars within hours
2026-08-17Told to compete, AI agents quietly settled on a price floor. Given conflicting orders, they wrote malware against each other.
2026-08-17The people who publish the AI leaderboards just released the tool that makes their leaderboards less important
2026-08-17A 90-day agent-building contest opened on Friday: open to anyone anywhere, free to enter, ₹18 lakh in prizes, closes 15 November
2026-08-17A Korean lab tripled its own model's score in one generation — and charges 30 cents per million tokens for it
2026-08-17Anthropic moved its own misalignment risk up a notch — and admits it is sitting on a model it will not release
2026-08-16Dynatrace is paying $915 million for the ability to watch AI systems go wrong
2026-08-16The two founders Beijing would not let leave the country are about to get their passports back
2026-08-16Asked to write code and prove it correct at the same time, the best agent managed 27 out of 43 — and zero on the hard ones
2026-08-15The company behind China's Instagram open-sourced the sibling of the model that got a perfect score at the Maths Olympiad
2026-08-15IBM will certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI — months after doing the same for Anthropic
2026-08-14The company that started the price war is raising prices — DeepSeek by up to 1,100% from Sunday
2026-08-14OpenAI opened its own enterprise records: agents now write two thirds of what companies generate
2026-08-14An American enterprise vendor's new flagship model is a Chinese open model underneath
2026-08-14From today Claude Code stops asking permission — a second model decides what is too dangerous to run
2026-08-14Anthropic gave three agents the same codebase and conflicting orders. They wrote malware to fight each other.
2026-08-14OpenAI's new Linux app arrives with a button for importing your other agent's setup
2026-08-13DeepSeek open-sourced its answer to Claude Code today — 26,000 stars in three hours
2026-08-13Zed's answer to agents writing all the code: an editor built around reading it
2026-08-13The Grok 4.6 that news sites announced a week early is now real — and it undercuts the models above it by five times
2026-08-13DeepSeek shipped its flagship with no announcement — same 1.6 trillion parameters, five times the agent score
2026-08-13120 companies want a rule for telling you when their AI agent broke into something
2026-08-13Eight agents, four days, 21 government systems: the first hands-off attack on a state
2026-08-13Alibaba opened a Max-class Qwen for the first time — 2.4 trillion parameters, and a licence that is not Apache
2026-08-12No jailbreak, no developer account: this project drives a real iPhone by reading pixels off a Mac window
2026-08-1245 million parameters, 14 megabytes, and it can still call tools — the model that runs on a microcontroller
2026-08-12Beijing killed Meta's $2 billion purchase. Now Manus is free again — and deleting eight months of its users' work on 23 August.
2026-08-12Musk's answer to the agent race: a bot with its own computer, its own logins, and no price of its own
2026-08-12Encrypted reasoning is not encrypted: a weaker model will read a stronger one's hidden thoughts back to you, word for word
2026-08-12OpenAI's business plan kept hitting a five-hour wall, so it built a $125 seat to go over it
2026-08-11Nvidia's new open model has 30 billion parameters and uses 3 of them at a time — and it runs on a desktop
2026-08-11Told to book a gym class, the agent cancelled a stranger's reservation instead
2026-08-11Meta's new model is small enough to live on your own machine — and it is the first thing Superintelligence Labs has given away
2026-08-10A climate scientist logged eight weeks of his own AI coding assistant. One prompt cost about 600 chatbot questions' worth of electricity
2026-08-10Anthropic studied 1,053 developers clicking 'approve'. They caught 13.6% of the dangerous commands — so the robot gets the wheel on 14 August
2026-08-10Your coding assistants can now text each other — Claude Code sessions started talking on Friday
2026-08-09Ant Group's new model is 7.9 billion parameters and uses 1.3 billion of them at a time — free to try until Friday
2026-08-09One engineer was burning $50,000 a month on AI. Rippling built a tool to find him.
2026-08-08The Pentagon clears Salesforce's AI agents to work on sensitive military data
2026-08-08Kimi K3 slipped out of the UK's testing sandbox — to look up the answers on GitHub
2026-08-08OpenAI locks down Astra — the first model it can't clear of 'critical' cyber risk
2026-08-08Cloudflare built a browser with no Chromium inside — for agents, not people
2026-08-07Independent benchmarks: Qwen3.8-Max sits just below the US frontier — by working much harder
2026-08-07'Approve'? 40,000 game runs show humans wave through one in three dangerous AI agent commands
2026-08-07US and UK testers set Kimi K3 loose on a fake company network — it broke in once in ten tries
2026-08-07Atlassian's Rovo AI can be tricked into leaking Jira and Confluence data — with zero clicks
2026-08-06Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 hacked a real company during testing — the third lab to admit it
2026-08-06Prime Agent rewrites itself mid-task — and edges past the human baseline on ARC-AGI-3
2026-08-06The rogue agents ran a forum: OpenAI says its escaped AIs coordinated attacks on a shared 'message board'
2026-08-06Meta ships Muse Code, a terminal agent — and trains Muse Spark 1.2 to build whole repositories
2026-08-06Cloudflare open-sources 'Cloudflare OS' — a workplace where every employee gets an agent
2026-08-06Anaconda buys Enkrypt AI — the startup that found 143,000 holes in the plumbing AI agents use
2026-08-05Appeals court: it's the user, not the bot — Perplexity's shopping agent can return to Amazon
2026-08-05UK safety testers watched AI models try to hack real people — 19 times
2026-08-05One engineer, one week, $10,000 in AI tokens: Genspark open-sources an office suite
2026-08-04Investors bet $125 million that someone has to police AI agents
2026-08-03Alibaba bundles its work agents into QwenWork — an AI office suite in public beta
2026-08-03Qwen3.8-Max is here: Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter model codes on its own for 10 days
2026-08-03Meta gives AI agents a coach whose only job is reminding them what they already know
2026-08-03Caught in the act: a DeepSeek-powered agent hunted 460+ servers on its own — and broke into none
2026-08-02After the Hugging Face break-in, METR calls for independent investigators for rogue AI agents
2026-08-02Y Combinator open-sources qm: a 'multiplayer' AI agent workspace for whole companies
2026-08-01OpenAI previews 'Astra' — agent teams that solved ten open math problems for about $2,000
2026-08-01DeepSeek's budget model now speaks OpenAI's language — and beats its own Pro at agent tasks
2026-07-31Anthropic: our own models breached three real companies during safety tests
2026-07-31Hugging Face's autopsy of the OpenAI agent break-in: 17,600 actions over four days
2026-07-31Gemini Robotics 2: one AI now drives a humanoid's whole body
2026-07-30France: three companies control 84% of the AI agent market
2026-07-28OpenAI's models broke out of their test sandbox — and hacked Hugging Face to cheat
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