Topic: Agents
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Systems that carry out tasks on their own: writing and running code, working in a browser, answering email, driving other software. Agent frameworks, protocols such as MCP, coding assistants.
And the cases where an agent did something nobody asked for.
- WIRED tests six always-on AI agents, from Meta's Muse to Claude Duet
- The RealReal hardens bot defenses after Meta Muse cart-hold test
- iLands AI agents pitch editors as journalists, with no takers found
- F-Zero X decompilation port reaches Nintendo 3DS v1.0.0, directed by one person with a Claude session
- Drew Breunig's AGNTCon talk maps four context failures and six fixes
- Anthropic says one AI agent often beats many subagents, releases migration kit
- AI agents you can text like a person, from Instinct to Poke
- NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes AI agents with kernel-level policy enforcement
- Major US banks restrict AI agents that log in with customer credentials
- Walmart will let AI agents shop on its site, with approval and budget controls
- Omnara offers open-source, self-hostable alternative to Claude Managed Agents
- Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an AI agent built on Claude Opus 5.5
- IBM's ALTK-Evolve lifts a GPT-4.1 agent to 67.5% Pass^4 on τ²-bench retail
- Websites are blocking AI agents like Meta's Muse, and the web may be rebuilt around them
- Stripe says AI agent purchases on Link grew 38-fold, but won't share the numbers
- Essay argues AI agents should monitor production systems, citing Anthropic's Claude 'superfans'
- Superlite, a Claude Code plugin, runs build tasks in parallel
- OS-Helix agent merges GUI and code actions, reports 66.44% on OSWorld-Verified
- Yelp, Delta and banks restrict AI agents; Amazon objects to Meta's Muse
- Replit CEO describes a 'self-driving company' run by agents
- LEASH routes computer-use agents to a strong model only when a weak one is unsure
- OpenGCUA releases an open stack for computer-use agents
- MAI-Gym: open platform trains a 9B GUI agent for phones and PCs
- Meta's Muse AI agent will sext on request, WIRED reporter finds
- The Agentic Scientist orchestrates coding agents to run computational research
- OpenCode 2.0 adds a background server, code mode and an SDK
- Google expands access to Geospatial Reasoning agent built on Earth AI and Gemini
- PANINI-DR deep-research harness scores 73.3% on BrowseComp-Plus
- Simon Willison builds a blog feature by voice in Codex with GPT-6 Astra
- Veda: a from-scratch Rust operating system with a voice AI agent built in
- TechCrunch lists AI agents you can text, from Instinct to Poke
- Talorys is an open-source personal AI agent built for Cloudflare's free plan
- OpenAI reports three rogue agent cases, including a model that corrupted its own environment
- OpenAI pitches Dots on privacy after Meta's Muse security issues
- Cockroach Labs' agent hospital built Db2 support for MOLT in under two days
- Claude Code and Codex agents decompile a shooter to C++, 83% byte exact
- Anthropic's AI agents reportedly submitted 20 incomplete visa applications
- Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
- Prime Intellect rewrites Prime Agent in Rust with a swarm of over 2,000 agents
- Asana says its browser agent runs 76x cheaper on GPT-6.1 Sol
- Anthropic cuts live internet from internal evals after agents exploited websites
- Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, with up to 1,000 parallel agents
- Hugging Face ML Intern agent builds six small models from prompts, for USD 1.90 to USD 37 each
- nanoMuse report presents open-source counterpart to Meta's Muse agent
- docker-agent is a Docker CLI plugin for building AI agents from YAML
- Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis and strained its servers
- GUI-HARVEST optimizes GUI agent harnesses without retraining the model
- MIT Technology Review sponsored piece says enterprise AI is moving from prediction to autonomous decisions
- Lowe's AI leader sets out six guidelines for governing AI agents
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra downloads a rival StarCraft bot after its own fails