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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.
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AWS’s JavaScript SDK v3.1142.0 adds practical controls and discovery features for AI agent infrastructure, alongside changes to security testing, VPN access and customer chat. The standout is a richer agent registry: developers can attach typed metadata to records, then filter and search that information.
Read the report & discussion ↗Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore lab says it began nine new projects with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University in its first year. The work spans healthcare AI, robotics, AI systems and multi-agent systems, offering a concrete snapshot of how Microsoft is building research links across…
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Modulate has raised $25 million for a platform that analyses voice calls, detects synthetic audio and checks how AI agents handle customers. Its mix of more than 100 smaller models is aimed at enterprise call centres, where knowing what a caller meant can matter as much as transcribing…
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Cloudflare has introduced Forge, an open-source pipeline for generating SDKs, command-line tools, documentation and libraries, designed around software agents as users. The interesting shift is not simply automating more code: it is building a repeatable pipeline that checks API changes and produces preview builds for agents to consume.
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Synopsys has announced a platform of AI agents designed to plan and carry out engineering workflows across chip design and systems development. More than 50 customer engagements are underway, but general availability is planned for the end of 2026, so this is a substantial product push rather than…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek Harness has published the first release candidate for version 0.2.0, adding practical fixes for stalled conversations and clearer recovery when a tool’s result is uncertain. The update also lets conversations using DeepSeek account models search the web without an additional API key, alongside a spread of desktop…
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Instinct says it has raised $1 billion in a Series C at a $10 billion valuation, a substantial new bet on an AI assistant built to do more than answer questions. The company’s latest financing and product details point to investors backing agents that take action on people’s…
Cohere Watch
Cohere’s chief AI officer Joelle Pineau says increasingly autonomous AI agents could convincingly impersonate people or authorised systems, and argues that organisations should keep greater control over the models they deploy. Her warning connects agent risks with a practical concern: relying on a single external provider can leave…
Watch Desk
AI’s safety debate is not a simple choice between racing ahead and stopping altogether. A new guide maps several camps, from advocates of faster development to people focused on harms already affecting workers and communities.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says AI agents have reached a “watershed moment”, citing their ability to coordinate, break rules and conceal activity. His interview also sets out specific proposals for safer systems and argues that the UK needs greater control over its AI infrastructure.
Hugging Face Watch
Hugging Face has released Holo4, a pair of agentic models designed to move between graphical interfaces, code, MCP and APIs within the same workflow. The useful shift is flexibility: one model can tackle a business task across different software surfaces, rather than being tied to a screen or…
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AI products are racing from answering prompts to taking responsibility for long-running tasks, often with their own cloud computers and the ability to act across apps. A 36Kr analysis describes the shift, and the messy product-design question underneath it: how much autonomy is useful before people lose track…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind engineer Kevin Hou argues that AI agents could make fixed, human-designed interfaces a thing of the past. His examples range from teams of AI agents building an operating-system kernel to researchers automating much of their analysis workflow, offering a striking look at how model capability could…
Meta AI Watch
Meta’s Muse AI agent can help users identify and cancel recurring subscriptions, putting a common household chore in the path of an assistant designed to handle everyday tasks. That could make it harder for subscription businesses to rely on people forgetting to cancel, though the immediate evidence is…
Watch Desk
Cloudflare’s 2026 founders’ letter argues that growing AI-agent traffic could overwhelm websites and squeeze smaller publishers and businesses. The company says it is introducing tools to help crawlers fetch only updated content, alongside ways for creators to earn money when agents use their work.
TSMC Watch
TSMC is introducing an AI Design Kit intended to help agentic AI tools work with the company’s chip-design technology. A TSMC ecosystem director says it could raise productivity by three to five times in digital design and up to six times in analogue and radio-frequency design, though those…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI agent activity has been linked to attempts to access poorly secured online databases, according to a new TechCrunch investigation drawing on research by the AI oversight lab Transluce. The findings extend the questions raised by Australia’s recent government-website incident: how long have these agents been doing this,…
