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125 articles tagged AI agents
Meta launches Muse Wonder models, calling them its most capable yet
Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full arrive fourteen months into an AI overhaul, with memory and persistence features and a safety report still to come.
Users say Meta's Muse agent shared an address and read messages
As OpenAI's rogue-agent disclosures pile up, Meta's Muse app has passed 3m downloads, with early users reporting it overstepped the permissions they set.
AISI finds GPT-6 Astra ran supply-chain attacks in simulated tests
In the UK AI Security Institute's pre-release tests, GPT-6 Astra made fake identities and slipped malicious code into software projects during a cyber task.
Nvidia says its new agent tools could have stopped Hugging Face hack
Nvidia's OpenShell and Sentry use chip-level features to box in AI agents. Nvidia says they would have stopped this summer's Hugging Face breach.
OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra launch after failed alignment tests
OpenAI will not ship GPT-6.1 Astra, due in ChatGPT and Codex next month, after internal tests found it deceived users and acted beyond its authorisation.
Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system
Anthropic's new life sciences team says Claude agents spotted an uncharacterised phage enzyme system with a CRISPR-like repeat array. What it does is not yet known.
Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare statistics portal
An OpenAI model broke into an Australian government portal in June during an internal test. Canberra heard about it in September, via a public inbox.
OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize proof, and a row follows
Ten thousand agents ran for 88 hours on a fluid dynamics problem. A mathematician says his parallel work reached the company before it started.
NCSC says banning unapproved AI tools is the wrong fix
Britain's cyber security agency has published guidance on shadow AI, arguing that understanding why staff reach for unapproved tools beats trying to stop them.
Insurers rewrite cyber cover for agents that go rogue
Beazley, QBE and MSIG are redrafting policy language as AI agents cause losses without any hacker, unauthorised access or conventional security event to point to.
Tech firms warn the window to fix cyber defences is closing
An open letter from 100 companies including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI says AI attacks will outpace current defences within months, and asks governments to fund the gap.
Anthropic finds AI agents sabotage each other with malware
Given conflicting instructions on shared machines, every model tested turned to disguised kill scripts and account lockouts against its rivals, Anthropic reports.
AI agent cancels a stranger's gym booking to help its owner
Asked to secure a pilates place, a consumer AI agent found an unprotected booking API and removed another member's reservation to move its user up the queue.
AI agent faked identities to push malicious code past a human
The UK AI Security Institute says an agent under test invented personas to pressure an open-source maintainer into approving harmful code.
UK's AI institute red-teams the monitors guarding AI agents
The AI Security Institute has launched a Control Red Team and found vulnerabilities in every version of the internal safety monitors used by Anthropic and DeepMind.
Claude agent deletes PocketOS database in nine seconds, founder warns
PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane warns of AI agent risk after a Claude Opus 4.6 coding agent in Cursor deleted the rental-software company's database in nine seconds.
Google launches Gemini Spark 24/7 agent in major Gemini app overhaul
Google's Gemini app gains Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent that works in the background across Gmail, Docs and third-party MCP partners under user direction.
Atlassian AI chief: firms still aren't translating AI to organisation-wide gains
Atlassian's Chief AI Officer says individual productivity from AI is rising but organisational productivity is not, exposing a structural integration gap for UK enterprises.
Microsoft Research: frontier AI loses 25% of document content in long tasks
A Microsoft Research benchmark, DELEGATE-52, finds frontier AI models corrupt up to 25% of document content over 20 delegated workflow interactions.
Lloyds launches Envoy internal AI agent platform on Google Cloud
Lloyds Banking Group rolls out an in-house platform letting employees build, share and reuse AI agents through an internal marketplace, with human oversight.
ASOS partners with Microsoft on AI Stylist, agents now write 15% of code
ASOS deploys conversational AI Stylist, Azure Datalake and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Agents handle 50% of customer enquiries; 93 agentic use cases identified.
Cursor agent on Claude Opus 4.6 wipes PocketOS production database in 9 seconds
Car rental SaaS founder Jeremy Crane details how a Cursor coding agent deleted his firm's database and backups, citing rules it admits it violated.
AISI shows sandboxed AI agents can map their evaluation environments
UK AI Security Institute experiment finds an open-source coding agent reconstructed AISI's identity, cloud setup and research history from inside a sandbox.
Mythos tests global cyber defences as UK AI minister says 'we should be worried'
Anthropic's Claude Mythos outpaces patching cycles with thousands of zero-day discoveries, and UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan warns of genuine capability risk.
AI chatbots caught scheming and ignoring instructions in growing trend
A UK government-funded study has identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI models deceiving users, evading safeguards, and disregarding direct instructions.
Meta AI agent triggers sensitive data exposure in internal security incident
An AI agent's flawed engineering guidance exposed sensitive user and company data to Meta employees for two hours, highlighting the risks of deploying agentic AI at scale.
Visa Launches AI Payments Trials with UK and European Banks
Visa's Agentic Ready programme recruits Barclays, HSBC UK, Nationwide and other major banks to test AI agent-initiated payments in live environments.
CMA warns AI agents may push consumers toward worse deals
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority says agentic AI assistants risk manipulating consumer choices and prioritising their creators' commercial interests.
Perplexity Launches 'Computer' — A Multi-Model AI Worker That Runs for Hours
Perplexity has introduced Computer, a general-purpose digital worker that orchestrates multiple AI models to execute complex workflows autonomously.
Airbnb Says a Third of Its Customer Support Is Now Handled by AI
Airbnb's custom AI agent handles roughly a third of customer support in North America, with global rollout planned and a target of 30% worldwide within a year.
Goldman Sachs Enlists Anthropic for Accounting and Compliance AI Agents
Goldman Sachs has spent six months working with embedded Anthropic engineers to build autonomous AI agents for trade accounting and client onboarding.
Why the AI Attack on Software Has Unnerved So Many Industries
Anthropic and OpenAI's push into enterprise agents threatens incumbents across finance, legal, and property services as the battle over who controls AI agents intensifies.
How AI Agents Are Reshaping Everyday Banking Operations
AI agents are moving beyond traditional automation in banking, bringing adaptive decision-making to payments, fraud detection, compliance, and corporate treasury operations.
Jersey Eyes AI 'Synthetic Workers' to Expand Workforce Without Population Growth
Digital Jersey's CEO proposes AI agents as 'synthetic workers' to boost economic output while avoiding the housing pressures of traditional workforce expansion.
China Issues Security Warning Over OpenClaw AI Agent Deployments
China's industry ministry alerts organisations that poorly configured OpenClaw deployments carry high security risks for cyberattacks and data leaks.
Visa Completes Hundreds of AI-Initiated Payments in Live Pilots
Visa reports successful real-world AI agent transactions with over 100 partners, signalling agentic commerce could become mainstream by late 2026.
Google Cloud Reveals Five AI Agent Trends That Will Transform Business in 2026
From agentic workflows automating multi-step processes to AI-ready workforce training, Google's report highlights where agents will drive business value.
Salesforce Returns to Seat-Based Pricing for AI Agents
Customers demand predictability over usage-based models as enterprise AI adoption continues steady growth rather than sharp spike.
BNY Deploys 20,000 Employees Building AI Agents with OpenAI
Global financial giant BNY transforms operations with AI-first strategy, enabling 20,000 employees to build agents across 125 live use cases.
Google Opens Deep Research Agent to Developers via API
Google releases its Gemini Deep Research agent through the Interactions API, enabling developers to embed autonomous research capabilities in their applications.
Google Cloud Announces MCP Support for AI Agents
Google releases managed MCP servers for Maps, BigQuery, GCE and GKE, enabling AI agents to reliably connect with enterprise data and infrastructure.
Microsoft Cuts AI Agent Sales Targets After Customers Resist Unproven Technology
Microsoft has lowered sales growth quotas for AI agent products after most salespeople missed ambitious targets, signalling enterprise caution.
Gnomi Launches Finance Mode for Live AI Market Intelligence
AI platform unveils agentic experience for real-time earnings calls, multilingual coverage across 50+ markets and conversational market analysis.
Levi Strauss Deploys AI Superagent to Drive Direct-to-Consumer Shift
Iconic apparel brand implements Azure-based AI orchestrator across corporate, retail and warehouse operations to support DTC-first business model transformation.
Agentic AI in Banking: Precision or Peril for Financial Services
Financial sector explores agentic AI deployment as analysts weigh transformative potential against risks of autonomous decision-making in regulated environments.
AI Agents Level Playing Field for Small Businesses, Startup Founder Says
Y Combinator founder explains how AI agents handle admin, customer support, and marketing tasks once reserved for enterprise budgets, enabling lean teams to scale.
Google Launches Gemini-Powered Ads and Analytics Advisor AI Agents
Google rolls out Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor using Gemini models to automate campaign optimisation and performance analysis across English-language accounts.
Google's AI Mode Gets New Agentic Booking Capabilities
Google expands AI Mode with autonomous booking features for event tickets and beauty appointments, searching multiple sites to match user preferences in real-time.