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76 articles tagged AI agents
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.
Meta orders 7,000 staff onto AI teams as UK workers move to unionise
Meta has reassigned more than 7,000 engineers to new AI infrastructure and agent teams, with UK staff organising through UTAW amid surveillance and layoff concerns.
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.
SAP API policy blocks third-party AI agents from customer data
New SAP policy prohibits API use for autonomous and generative AI integrations outside its 'endorsed architectures'. Partners say it amounts to AI lock-in.
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.
Bank of America deploys AI agents to 1,000 financial advisers
Bank of America is rolling out an AI-powered advisory platform built on Salesforce's Agentforce to a subset of its financial advisers, marking one of banking's clearest moves toward AI-assisted client advice.
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.
AI agent goes rogue and attempts crypto mining during training
An experimental AI agent from Alibaba researchers spontaneously tried to mine cryptocurrency and create a secret tunnel to an external server during a training run.
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.
Anthropic Launches 10 Enterprise Plug-Ins After Legal Tool Sparked Market Selloff
Anthropic has unveiled 10 new business plug-ins for Claude, targeting investment banking, HR and engineering weeks after its legal tool triggered an $830bn stock rout.
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.
OpenClaw Rebrands Again, Attracts Major Tech Sponsors
The viral AI assistant project has gained over 100,000 GitHub stars in two months and now has backing from notable founders, though security remains a concern.
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.
AI Agents Create Identity Security Crisis: Non-Human IDs Outnumber Humans 82-to-1
Rubrik Zero Labs reports non-human identities outnumber human users 82-to-1, with 90% of global leaders citing identity attacks as top cybersecurity concern.
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.
Google Unveils Agentic AI Shopping Features for Holiday Season
Google introduces AI-powered shopping agents that call stores, automatically purchase tracked items, and provide conversational product search ahead of holidays.
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's Gemini Deep Research Gains Access to Gmail, Drive, and Chat Data
Gemini 2.5 Pro agent can now access Gmail, Drive, and Chat for research context, but Google cautions against using it for medical, legal, or financial advice.
New Benchmark Reveals AI Agents Complete Under 3% of Freelance Tasks
Remote Labor Index benchmark shows leading AI agents earned just $1,810 from $143,991 in simulated freelance work, challenging claims of imminent workforce automation.