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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
Microsoft has added Mistral Medium 3.5 to Copilot Studio for agent building and orchestration, giving organisations another model choice while keeping access behind two administrator approvals. The practical point is less “more models” than more control over where and how enterprise agents are run.
Read the report & discussion ↗Cohere Watch
Cohere and OpenText have announced a strategic partnership aimed at putting AI agents into production for governments and regulated industries. The practical change is a planned connection between Cohere’s North platform and models and OpenText’s Aviator AI agents, with customers able to deploy the combined systems on-premises or…
Watch Desk
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger has invested in Austrian RegTech company signteq, which is using a new funding round to build infrastructure for verifying what AI agents are allowed to do. The practical significance is bigger than one angel investment: as software starts preparing purchases, triggering payments and signing…
AWS AI Watch
African banks are moving beyond AI experiments and helping Amazon Web Services shape how agents handle customer interactions, software development and potentially transactions. The important shift is not another chatbot pilot, but the arrival of AI in places where mistakes can touch people’s money.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has published a snapshot of how AI contributes to its research and development, how it monitors internal AI agents, and how it allocates compute to safety work. The figures offer unusually concrete measures of AI development from inside a frontier lab, though they are Anthropic’s own measurements,…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is giving selected Claude Pro and Max subscribers a beta feature that breaks engineering work into parallel Claude Code sessions, reviews the results and assembles them. The important catch is wonderfully unglamorous: running several agents at once can burn through a subscription’s allowance much faster.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has launched Amazon Connect Talent, a service in which AI agents conduct job interviews and assessments at scale. The important point is not simply that interviews can now happen around the clock. AWS says recruiters receive transcripts, competency scores and evidence for each assessment, while retaining final…
Meta AI Watch
Meta has released a Mac version of Muse, its personal AI agent, giving it access to local files and native apps for the first time. The important shift is practical: Muse can now gather context from a computer rather than waiting for people to copy and paste their…
Watch Desk
Quorum Cyber is acquiring Microsoft security specialist Ontinue in a deal that will combine managed detection, incident response and AI-led security operations across the UK, North America and the DACH region. The important point is not simply another security acquisition. It is the attempt to turn AI agents…
Watch Desk
Cybersecurity companies are taking sharply different routes into AI, from purpose-built defender models to frontier systems wired into existing security platforms. The practical problem is that buyers are being handed metrics measured in different units, making the next big security purchase rather harder to compare than the marketing…
Watch Desk
OpenAI is more likely than Anthropic to become an enterprise's primary AI agent platform, according to an August survey reported by VentureBeat. The more interesting wrinkle is that Anthropic has the stronger pipeline of organisations considering a switch or addition, so the platform race is not quite the…
AMD Watch
AMD has published a fuller set of benchmark claims for its upcoming EPYC Venice server CPUs, including a result that puts its 256-core flagship well ahead of NVIDIA Vera in one SPEC CPU 2026 throughput test. The useful story is both the scale of AMD’s claim and the…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon Connect Talent, AWS's agentic AI hiring solution, is now generally available, and its agents do far more than sift applications. They analyse the role, draw up an interview plan, invite candidates to book a slot at any hour, run voice interviews around the clock and hand the…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has rebuilt the compute layer that keeps production AI agents running, and the changes go straight at the two things that hurt most at scale: what memory costs and how long a start takes. The new AgentCore runtime, announced on 18 September, pages memory in on demand,…
Watch Desk
Jessica Hische, a Berkeley lettering artist whose clients have included the New York Times, Tiffany & Co. and Wes Anderson, designed the icon and logotype for Meta's new Muse AI agent. When she announced the work, her fellow designers delivered a swift verdict, and she had predicted every…
xAI Watch
xAI has ended its Galaxy event in San Francisco with three enterprise launches built around one idea: AI agents that do the work rather than merely answer questions. The sharpest number of the day is a Voice Agent API priced at $0.08 per minute for speech-to-speech processing, a…
Meta AI Watch
Meta's Muse agent has a Mac app, going by an announcement from Alexandr Wang, the company's chief AI officer. Posted on X on 17 September, the launch claims the agent can now get things done across your files, messages, calendar and notes, with you deciding what it can…
Watch Desk
A French-speaking criminal crew wired a safety-stripped AI agent into a credential harvesting line, then left the entire control room exposed on the open internet. Researchers at SOCRadar found the server: 4.9 GB across 9,299 files, holding the crew's DXSCAN scanning platform, phishing tools, extortion material and a…
AWS AI Watch
MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, has handed self-service AI agents to about 400 employees, and the first month of production cost roughly $14 per seat. The number turns heads. The quietly impressive part is that a firm bound by German financial-sector rules…
