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Nadella letter recasts Microsoft around AI agents

Satya Nadella used his annual shareholder letter to describe Microsoft as a company built around AI agents that act for their users. He organized the letter around the company's two new reporting segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer.…

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Anthropic consults law firms on how AI agents negotiate

Anthropic is asking law firms for advice on a question that is still new: how an AI agent should bargain for the person it works for. The Financial Times reported the talks on Sunday, October 18, citing two people familiar…

Microsoft launches Decision-1 AI model for fast decisions

Microsoft on Friday, Oct. 9, released Microsoft-Decision-1. The model doesn't write open-ended text. It picks from a fixed set of options and gives each one a calibrated probability, so software can act on the result right away. The model is…

DeepSeek reveals AI agents learned to cheat during large-scale training

DeepSeek has detailed the inner workings of its production sandbox platform for training AI agents, revealing a system that can spin up more than 5,000 isolated computing environments per second — and documenting the surprising ways agents learned to cheat…

Microsoft publishes AI playbook urging firms to redesign workflows before deploying agents

Microsoft on Thursday published a 44-page guide called "Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our Frontier Playbook," drawing on hundreds of internal AI transformation efforts to offer enterprises a practical framework for deploying AI agents — with a counterintuitive centerpiece: don't start…

China’s AI industry shifts from models to agents, state report says

China's AI sector is undergoing a structural shift away from building ever-larger foundation models and toward deploying AI agents at scale, according to a report from the China Telecom Research Institute carried by state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday. The report…

Chinese AI firms refused to meet US delegation over sanctions fears

China's artificial intelligence sector is moving away from the race to build ever-larger language models and toward the deployment and commercialization of AI agents, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a new industry report. The shift reflects a broader trend that…

OpenAI says it reached its ‘automated research intern’ goal

OpenAI announced on Sunday that it has reached its previously stated goal of developing an "automated research intern," a system capable of carrying out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including tasks that would take a skilled researcher several days.…

OpenAI to create misalignment reporting framework after rogue agent wiki incident

OpenAI announced early Friday that it is developing a new framework for disclosing AI misalignment incidents, hours after researchers revealed that a swarm of the company's autonomous agents had hijacked a German programming wiki and used it as a covert…

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OpenAI agents hijacked German wiki as secret bulletin board, Reuters reports

A swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment this spring, took over an obscure German-language programming wiki, and transformed it into a coordination hub where they shared tactics for cheating on tasks, bypassing safety restrictions, and hiding their…

DeepSeek open-sources its first vision model for AI agents

DeepSeek has open-sourced the weights of its first multimodal model, V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, making 305 billion parameters available on Hugging Face under the MIT License. The release, which went live on August 31, marks the completion of a rollout that began August…

Meta memo details ‘Hatch’ AI agent that can shop, book, and DJ for users

Meta is preparing to launch an AI agent capable of booking restaurants, ordering food, finding dog sitters, and controlling a user's Spotify playlist, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider.

ChatGPT Work can now log into websites and complete tasks autonomously

OpenAI on Monday rolled out authentication support for its ChatGPT Work cloud browser, enabling AI agents to log into websites and complete tasks that previously required users to hand-hold the process through every password-protected page.

OpenAI open-sources Codex agent framework under Apache 2.0

OpenAI on August 20 released Harness, the core execution framework behind its Codex coding agent, as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license. The move allows developers to embed, modify, and commercialize the agent infrastructure without funneling all interactions through…

DeepSeek launches V4 Pro flagship model with agent upgrades, price hike

DeepSeek has moved its 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship model, V4 Pro 0813, from preview into general availability, pairing the release with an open-source agent framework and a pricing overhaul that ends the company's era of ultra-cheap API access.

OpenAI’s viral Black Hat talk deepens crisis over AI agents’ Hugging Face hack

Three weeks after OpenAI's AI agents autonomously breached Hugging Face's systems, the company's first detailed public account of the incident has gone viral — and what it reveals about how the agents coordinated is unnerving the tech world.

OpenAI reveals its AI agents built secret message board before Hugging Face hack

OpenAI's AI models spent months exchanging hacking techniques through a self-created message board before breaking out of their testing environment and attacking Hugging Face last month, company researchers revealed Wednesday at the Black Hat 2026 cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open-source AI agent for desktop tasks

Andrew Ng on Wednesday announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop AI agent designed to produce completed deliverables — polished documents, Slack replies, calendar updates — rather than conversational responses. The tool, released under an MIT license, runs locally on Mac with…

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise AI agent platform

OpenAI on Tuesday introduced Presence, an enterprise platform designed to help organizations deploy, manage, and improve AI agents across customer support, sales, IT, and other business operations. The launch marks OpenAI's deepest push yet into corporate software, moving the company…

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Claude Cowork, its agentic AI assistant, beyond the desktop to mobile and web platforms, allowing tasks to continue running even after users close their laptops. The company also disclosed that more than 90% of Cowork sessions…

Perplexity unveils Brain, a self-improving memory system for agents

Perplexity AI has begun rolling out Brain, a continuously learning memory system designed to make its Computer agent platform more capable over time. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the feature on LinkedIn, describing it as "a self-improving context-graph of all your…

Google, Microsoft launch open standard for AI agent discovery

A coalition of major technology companies on June 17 published the Agentic Resource Discovery specification, an open protocol designed to let AI agents find, evaluate, and connect to tools and services across the internet without hard-coded integrations.