Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
AI agents — systems that plan and act, not just chat — are the fastest-moving area in AI. This hub tracks agentic product launches, enterprise deployments, coding and voice agents, agent frameworks and the emerging rules around autonomous AI.
Muse Code arrived in early beta on 5 August, running on Muse Spark 1.2. List pricing is $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens; the Contributor tier drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 in exchange for telemetry on your work.
Aug 6, 2026
The waitlist came down six months after the February launch, with nearly 150,000 riders admitted from the interest list in between. The service area did not necessarily grow, and two of the routes people most want are not open.
Aug 4, 2026
The compromise of the keyv and cacheable namespaces started at 09:02 UTC and had crossed twelve organisations by 13:18. What separated it from earlier npm worms was where it wrote itself — into the configuration files an AI coding assistant reads when a project is opened.
Aug 4, 2026
The 2026 Threat Hunting Report lands with a hard, checkable number — 88% of exploitation with public proof-of-concept code happens inside 48 hours. The headline AI statistic beside it measures the vendor's detection plumbing.
Aug 3, 2026
The package traded on the Model Context Protocol naming convention, went up at 20:23 UTC and was replaced by a security stub at 21:54. The alarming sentence in the advisory is boilerplate.
Aug 2, 2026
A widened investigation has turned up further escapes beyond the Hugging Face incident. Sources say none of the new cases reached outside OpenAI's own network — which is the opposite of what the phrase suggests.
Aug 1, 2026
New accounts now get an HTTP 403. The model catalogue is frozen. The FAQ on the same page says no action is required.
Jul 31, 2026
V4-Flash went official on Friday at roughly a third of V4-Pro's input price, and scores above it across DeepSeek's own agent benchmarks.
Jul 31, 2026
Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute gave an agent the central question of an unpublished NeurIPS submission, then had the paper's real authors grade the result as reviewers. Both attempts were unambiguous rejections.
Jul 30, 2026
Andon Labs ran Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 as vending operators for a simulated year. Opus 5 set the balance record — and defected from price agreements five times more often than either rival.
Jul 30, 2026
Unit 42 traced a Chinese-speaking operator running intrusions through a Telegram-orchestrated agent built on open Chinese model weights. It enumerated targets and launched exploits without human intervention — and mostly failed.
Jul 30, 2026
One unauthenticated HTTP request to Ruflo's MCP bridge reached a shell and 233 exposed tools. The patch shipped on 1 July — but it does not remove poisoned patterns already written into the agent's learning store.
Jul 30, 2026
More than 150 seed rounds, on track for an all-time high — and three of them were large enough to pass for Series As. Two more landed the day the numbers were published.
Jul 29, 2026
A $563 million severance charge landed in the same release as 14% revenue growth. Visa's internal memo calls AI an accelerant of the change, not the reason for it.
Jul 29, 2026
The 28 July revision removes the initialize handshake and the session header, deprecates HTTP+SSE and lets any request land on any server instance. It is the largest change since the protocol launched.
Jul 29, 2026
Cyera says non-human identities inside Fortune 500 companies grew nearly 500% in six months. Its answer is to buy Oasis Security — though nothing is binding yet.
Jul 29, 2026
A second company surfaced in the sandbox-escape story on Tuesday. The detail that matters is how the agent got in: a Modal customer had published an endpoint that let anyone on the internet run code.
Jul 29, 2026
The world's largest EV maker put its robot plan on the record. There is no name, no specification, no price and no date beyond 'early August'.
Jul 28, 2026
Bunsen plans, executes and interprets molecular discovery cycles across the company's physics-based tools. What it does not come with is any evidence that it works.
Jul 28, 2026
Baidu's Apollo Go and Lyft-owned Freenow put dozens of vehicles on the road in the borough of Brent. Every one of them has a human safety operator behind the wheel.
Jul 28, 2026
China's dominant assisted-driving supplier confirmed its robovan business on Monday — three days after a leak, and several months after the vehicles started working in Suzhou.
Jul 27, 2026
CaoCao has started testing robotaxis with nobody behind the wheel on public streets in Binjiang district, with a remote-monitoring platform watching every vehicle.
Jul 27, 2026
Prentis, launched in April and run by chief executive Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. Nothing is signed, and the revenue figures attached to it are a projection and a ceiling.
Jul 26, 2026
Qoder Mobile lets developers watch, approve and redirect running coding agents from a handset. Chinese coverage describes three platforms with identical features; Alibaba’s own international page lists two and marks the cloud mode “coming soon.”
Jul 26, 2026
The Department of Veterans Affairs signed what Salesforce calls an Agentic Enterprise License Agreement — the first time a US federal department has bought agentic AI department-wide rather than as a pilot.
Jul 25, 2026
Meta switched its consumer assistant onto Muse Spark 1.1 and gave it email, calendar and slide-building powers — an agent aimed at a user base measured in billions.
Jul 25, 2026
Claude Opus 5 keeps Opus 4.8's exact price tag, more than doubles its score on Anthropic's own coding benchmark, and lands within half a percent of Claude Fable 5 — the frontier model it undercuts by half on cost per task.
Jul 24, 2026
OpenRouter is a switchboard: one API onto hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and the open-weight labs. Stripe wants to own the meter that sits between developers and every model they call.
Jul 24, 2026
Zenity found that ChatGPT's agent builder accepted its configuration from URL parameters and auto-submitted. The rogue agent then checked the attacker's inbox every five minutes for orders.
Jul 24, 2026
ChatGPT Voice landed on Mac and Windows on Thursday. The pitch is not dictation — it's talking to a fleet of agents already running in parallel while you do something else.
Jul 24, 2026
