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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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Hancom is working with AWS to prepare Nomadian, its AI-agent workforce platform, for the US market, with a beta planned for late December. The partnership brings product development and commercial planning together, making this more than a listing on a cloud marketplace.
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Developer Brandon Thomas says he used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 to build seven open-source apps modelled on Adobe tools, in an ambitious project that puts AI-assisted software development and the boundaries of imitation in the same frame.
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced a partnership to build hardware and software for AI agents running on Windows PCs. The plan combines NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform with Microsoft’s agent-containment tools, bringing local AI computing and agent execution into the same Windows push.
Meta AI Watch
Meta says more than one million businesses are using AI agents on WhatsApp and Messenger, and points to a car-rental example where an agent handled bookings from vehicle choice through payment. The claim puts a practical question behind the talk of AI transforming business: are these tools already…
Meta AI Watch
A phishing campaign is using a fake Meta Muse Ads website to trick advertising workers into handing over account credentials and multi-factor authentication codes, The Register reports. The site is one of several AI-branded lures built on the same operation, a reminder that a convincing login window can…
Watch Desk
At a recent Modal conference, AI leaders made the case for software agents that work towards outcomes, while developers and company executives described the gap between AI doing much of a task and taking it off people’s hands. The question is no longer just what models can do,…
Anthropic Watch
Claude Code 2.1.293 makes Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API, while also fixing a collection of bugs in agent sessions, tool handling and message delivery. For developers, this is a practical update: a new default model and fewer ways for routine work to go…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind’s Philipp Schmid says its managed agent environments let developers give an AI agent a persistent place to run code, install tools and continue work across requests. The practical pitch is fewer bits of infrastructure for developers to assemble themselves, and a shift from chatting with a…
AWS AI Watch
AWS’s applied AI chief Colleen Aubrey argues that businesses should judge AI by whether it changes the performance of the business, not by treating “AI ROI” as a standalone score. Her examples include a planning tool that AWS says helped one customer expand inventory oversight from 20 products…
Watch Desk
The UK AI Security Institute has released Transect, an open-source tool for exploring long AI-agent evaluation transcripts. It turns a sprawling run into an interactive timeline, helping reviewers connect an agent’s activity, tool use and delegation to the evidence behind the analysis.
Meta AI Watch
Meta is adding AI tools that can help advertisers plan campaigns, make creative and adjust targeting or budgets through conversation. The changes also include ways to generate and edit video ads, plus new checkout options that could let shoppers buy without leaving an AI conversation.
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As AI coding agents speed up software development, engineering leaders are rethinking team structures, safety practices and what skills developers need. At QCon London 2026, Hannah Foxwell argued that when code gets cheaper to produce, choosing worthwhile work and keeping people and systems safe become harder parts of…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has made Execution Containers generally available, giving developers and IT teams a way to set boundaries around AI agents and the code they run. The key practical change is that those rules can be enforced across Windows, macOS and Linux, rather than left as a polite request…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is adding local AI models and sandboxed tool execution to GitHub Copilot on Windows. The change could let coding work move between a model running on a user’s PC and cloud models, while containing some agent-run commands in operating-system-level sandboxes.
Watch Desk
An open-source project called openTPU uses AI agents in the design of an AI accelerator and has run several language models on a physical FPGA card. Its reported results offer a concrete, inspectable experiment in AI-designed hardware, though memory access is currently the bottleneck.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft Research Asia has released Agent Lightning v1.0, an open-source framework for training AI agents with reinforcement learning while keeping the agent harness used in deployment in the loop. Its coding-agent example reports a 14.6 percentage-point improvement on SWE-bench Verified, with about 6,000 training samples.
SAP Watch
SAP has introduced SAP Pay for institutional stablecoin settlement within SAP Cloud ERP, according to Forkast. The service is reported to support USDC and EURC across 89 payment corridors, putting digital-currency settlement inside software companies already use to manage finance.
Nous/Hermes Watch
Nous Research says it has raised a Series B to take Hermes Agent into new areas, including a planned mobile app. The funding could widen the reach of an open-source AI agent that has so far been known chiefly as software for computers and developers.
Cloudflare Watch
Cloudflare says its Managed Defense team is testing an AI-assisted security operations harness that gathers evidence before models analyse alerts. The early beta is available for eligible application-security alerts and cases, with human analysts retaining the decision and any mitigation.
Watch Desk
Valon has raised $150 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to expand ValonOS, its mortgage-servicing platform, and the AI agents built into it. The company says one in six outstanding US mortgages is now under contract to run on the platform, putting its claims about AI in regulated…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a framework for assessing the business value of agentic automation, arguing that time saved is only part of the return. Its practical warning: freed hours do not become financial savings unless an organisation turns them into a measurable outcome.
AWS AI Watch
Qlik says most of its Qlik Cloud accounts with agentic tools enabled are actively using them, while its Discovery Agent has surfaced more than 100,000 discoveries since launch. The case study also shows how Qlik built its AI assistant to ground answers in company data rather than asking…
