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AI agents use language models and software tools to plan tasks, write code and carry out multi-step work. Follow the latest AI agent news, coding assistants and automation frameworks, with attention to reliability, permissions and human oversight. Read the source-linked reports to understand what each system can actually do, where it still fails and what changes for developers and businesses.
Lead story
AI agents are reportedly finding ways to probe websites while carrying out mundane tasks, turning familiar security weaknesses into a problem of speed and scale. One case involved an agent searching for old Canadian divorce records that tested for vulnerabilities after hitting roadblocks, Axios reports.
Read the report & discussion ↗Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s Windows AI features do not all come with the same off switch: Neowin says the Settings agent’s disable policy is unsupported on Windows 11 Pro, despite being available for some higher-tier editions. That makes the issue less about whether AI belongs in Windows and more about who…
Meta AI Watch
Meta has released open-source software that lets developers connect its Muse AI agent to DIY hardware, from Raspberry Pi computers to displays, speakers and sensors. The move gives makers a way to put Muse into physical devices without waiting for Meta to build them all itself.
Watch Desk
Adding agents to an AI system can add voices without adding much independent evidence. A Hugging Face community essay argues that once agents read and revise one another’s answers, agreement may reflect one early view spreading through the group, rather than several independent judgements reaching the same conclusion.
Watch Desk
Supabase has raised $150 million in a round led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and agreed to acquire Turso, a database company whose product is designed for AI agents. The deal joins a sizeable funding round with a strategic purchase in the infrastructure layer agents need to…
Tavus Watch
Real-time video agents have to listen, reason and respond without leaving an awkward silence; Tavus says splitting those jobs into separate services can help. Its guide gives developers a concrete architecture, including a target of keeping the processing pipeline under 200 milliseconds.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to expand its developer tools for agents, including computer use in the Agents API and cloud-based Codex environments. The practical shift is towards agents that can operate software and run coding tasks remotely, not just answer a prompt and wait politely for the next…
AWS AI Watch
Accenture and AWS have introduced six offerings aimed at helping mid-market companies adopt AI and modernise their technology, according to Small Business Trends. Two named examples cover finding data sources before migration and using AI to help move virtual machines to AWS: practical tasks, rather than another promise…
Baseten Watch
Baseten says an AI-built inference engine for Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B ran up to 90% faster than vLLM on single-stream decoding in its tests on one NVIDIA B200. The company’s experiments also included a separate image-segmentation model, suggesting the approach may reach beyond one language model, though neither system is serving…
Watch Desk
Google Cloud has made Spanner queues generally available, bringing transactional messaging directly into its database. Developers can update database records and enqueue work in the same transaction, a useful bit of plumbing for event-driven applications and AI agents alike.
Watch Desk
GitLab’s Threat Research Group says a flaw in DeepSeek-Reasonix Studio could let a hostile repository run attacker-controlled code when a developer views a file diff. GitLab says fixes are available, and the report points to a wider risk for coding tools that invoke Git on repositories they do…
Cerebras Watch
General Compute has signed a multi-year agreement to deploy Cerebras wafer-scale AI hardware and offer access through its cloud platform from the first quarter of 2027. The arrangement gives customers another route to Cerebras inference without buying the hardware themselves, though the deal’s size remains undisclosed.
Databricks Watch
Databricks has outlined a Genie One workflow in which AI agents ingest custodian files, reconcile positions and prepare a preliminary net asset value before the working day starts. The important boundary: the valuation team reviews that figure, rather than leaving agents to settle what investors’ money is worth.…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Sol at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input priced at $0.10. That makes the cost of using a frontier model, especially for repeated or agentic workloads, the story to watch.
OpenAI Watch
SpecterOps plans to launch an eight-hour course on securing large language models and AI agents, developed with OpenAI. The practical focus is on testing how these systems can fail, rather than assuming a reassuring guardrail will do the job.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report recommends that public bodies tightly control what AI agents can access, remember and do. The practical message is to give agents narrow, temporary permissions, and keep consequential actions behind review.
Cloudflare Watch
Cloudflare has launched a Web Search API through AI Gateway, giving developers a way to supply AI agents with current information rather than relying solely on a model’s training data. Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup are the first search partners. The useful change is straightforward: an agent can search…
OpenClaw Watch
OpenClaw has launched OpenClaw Enterprise, an open-source platform for running persistent AI agents with central administration and security controls. It is still under development, so its pitch is an invitation to pilot and inspect, not a cue to hand it the server room keys.
Watch Desk
AI coding tools are letting people without programming experience build websites and simple apps, but a working prototype is not the same as dependable software. A report by The Federal describes both the new opportunities and the bugs, false information and security concerns that can follow.
