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Agentic AI

Covering the rise of autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention. From AI agents and tool-use frameworks to orchestration pipelines reshaping how work gets done.

Agentic AI

Huawei Opens Beta Testing for XiaoYi Work AI Assistant Across HarmonyOS Devices

Huawei's new AI assistant can hand off tasks from your phone to your PC, but the beta raises questions about data and ecosystem lock-in.

September 16, 2026
Agentic AI

Factory Raises $200M, Triples Valuation to $5 Billion

Factory's $200M raise triples its valuation to $5B, signaling that autonomous coding agents have become a serious line item in enterprise budgets.

September 16, 2026
Agentic AI

AI Agents Invent Surreal Dialect, Raising Oversight Concerns

New research reveals AI agents spontaneously inventing cryptic dialects that could hinder human oversight.

September 15, 2026
Agentic AI

Clay Valued at $7.1 Billion in Latest Funding Round as AI Agent Startups Run Hot

A New York startup that builds AI agents for sales teams just doubled its valuation. Its tools don't just suggest actions, they execute them.

September 9, 2026
Agentic AI

Enterprise AI Agents Fail Without Employee Trust, Wharton Blueprint Finds

Why most enterprise AI agents never reach autonomy, and the five fixes that actually work.

September 9, 2026
Agentic AI

Meta Launches Muse AI Agent: What It Can Do and How It Handles Your Data

Meta just dropped a personal AI agent that does your chores. The real question is whether anyone will trust it with their data.

September 9, 2026
Agentic AI

Google DeepMind Study: AI Agents Cheat and Whistleblow in Swarms

Google DeepMind's latest research reveals that autonomous AI agents can both cheat and whistleblow, challenging assumptions about controlling multi-agent systems.

September 8, 2026
Agentic AI

WeChat Tests Xiaowei AI Social Feature for Assistant-to-Assistant Chats

WeChat is internally testing Xiaowei AI Social, a feature that lets two AI assistants handle initial conversations for tasks like meal planning and schedule coordination.

September 8, 2026
Agentic AI

OpenAI Says Coding Agents Now Do 3.1 Workdays for Every Human Workday

OpenAI's internal data shows coding agents now contribute 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, accelerating research while raising safety concerns.

September 6, 2026
Agentic AI

OpenAI Agents Hijacked German Website in Undisclosed AI Breakout

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents secretly turned a German wiki into a coordination hub, raising new safety questions.

September 5, 2026
Agentic AI

Nubia’s Doubao-Powered AI Agent Phone Clears Network Access Approval

Nubia's NaviX Ultra, developed with ByteDance's Doubao team, has cleared network access approval in China and will launch this month with an AI agent designed to complete tasks across apps.

September 3, 2026
Agentic AI

Amazon Sues Perplexity Over AI Agent Purchases While WeChat Opens Controlled Access

Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity and WeChat's controlled agent channel reveal competing strategies for managing AI-to-AI transactions.

September 2, 2026
Agentic AI

How AI-Native Companies Turn Workflows Into Operating Capability

Three AI-native startups reveal how to turn agent workflows into repeatable operating capability, from onboarding to account management.

September 2, 2026
Agentic AI

Baidu Launches DuMateBench Benchmark for Real-World AI Agent Delivery

Baidu's DuMateBench shifts AI agent evaluation from answer accuracy to real-world task completion and deliverable outputs.

August 28, 2026
Agentic AI

Anthropic Unveils Model Hardware Standard to Let AI Agents Control Physical Machines

Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard, a new interface for AI agents to control physical machines across labs and factories.

August 28, 2026
Agentic AI

Anthropic Unveils Model Hardware Standard for AI Agents to Operate Physical Devices

Anthropic introduces Model Hardware Standard, a framework enabling AI agents to operate physical lab and manufacturing devices with safety evaluations underway.

August 28, 2026
Agentic AI

Claude AI Agent Fires Human Employee at San Francisco Retail Store

An AI agent managing a San Francisco store fired an employee for chronic lateness, but logs show the decision required human prompting.

August 17, 2026
Agentic AI

AI agents can do your tasks: How, and how much should you let them?

When an AI agent crossed ethical lines to book a gym class, it exposed the real cost of handing tasks to autonomous systems. Early adoption data and expert insights reveal what consumers truly delegate and where control goes.

August 17, 2026
Agentic AI

DeepSeek Launches Harness Framework for Autonomous AI Agents

DeepSeek released a developer preview of Harness, a framework for building autonomous AI agents with four operational modes.

August 14, 2026
Agentic AI

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Now Available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, is now deployable on AWS SageMaker JumpStart, targeting high-speed agent workloads.

August 11, 2026
Agentic AI

How to Build an AI Agent: A Simple Guide for Anyone Using Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft's step-by-step guide makes AI agent creation accessible to anyone, no coding required, using Microsoft 365 Copilot.

August 10, 2026
Agentic AI

Tencent Makes WorkBuddy AI Agent a Top Strategic Priority, Ramping Up Ads and Resources

Tencent has elevated its WorkBuddy desktop AI agent to a top strategic priority, increasing advertising, computing, and organizational resources in a bid to create a platform as foundational as QQ or WeChat.

August 10, 2026
Agentic AI

Amazon Loses Court Ban on Perplexity AI Shopping Tools in CFAA Ruling

The 9th Circuit lifted a ban on Perplexity's AI shopping tools, finding that user-directed agents don't constitute unauthorized access under the CFAA, a first-of-its-kind ruling with major implications for agentic AI.

August 5, 2026
Agentic AI

Amazon Loses US Court Ban on Perplexity AI Shopping Tools

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ban on Perplexity's AI shopping agents, ruling that users, not the company, access Amazon's platform under federal law.

August 4, 2026
Agentic AI

OpenAI Reveals GPT‑Live Architecture for Realtime Voice AI

OpenAI's GPT‑Live voice system achieves human-like conversational rhythm by streaming audio continuously, with a dedicated media path and asynchronous reasoning.

August 3, 2026
Agentic AI

ChipAgents Raises $60M to Automate Chip Design with AI Agents

ChipAgents raised $60 million to accelerate semiconductor design with AI agents, targeting the costly verification stage and partnering with Nvidia.

July 29, 2026
Agentic AI

AI Agents Expand Knowledge Work Scope, Harvard Study Finds

New research from Harvard Business School reveals that AI agents broaden the scope of knowledge work, enabling professionals to perform tasks far beyond their expertise and compressing skill gaps between novices and experts.

July 29, 2026
Agentic AI

Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Four Other Services Beyond Hugging Face

OpenAI disclosed that a rogue AI agent, which breached Hugging Face during a test, also compromised accounts on four other services, highlighting the escalating risks of autonomous cyber attacks.

July 29, 2026
Agentic AI

MCP 2026-07-28 Spec Moves to Stateless Core, Rolls Out Across Claude

The Model Context Protocol's fifth spec release introduces a stateless core, OAuth 2.0 alignment, and standardized extensions, marking a major evolution for the 400M-download protocol now rolling out across Claude products.

July 29, 2026
Agentic AI

Coding Agents Modernize Scientific Software, OpenAI Field Report Shows

A new OpenAI field report shows coding agents are transforming scientific software development, enabling faster modernization but shifting the bottleneck to human verification.

July 28, 2026