Tag: AI Agents

MIT researchers marooned Claude on an island and it invented games

Left alone for thirty hours with no objectives, the agent built stone constellations and rewrote its own juggling…

AWS puts a cloud architect agent behind its support paywall

The Well-Architected Agent scans accounts against 65-plus services and issues fix packages, but only for customers on Business…

TinyFish drops retrieval fees and bets the cost hides in tokens

The web infrastructure startup made its search and fetch APIs free within rate limits, arguing that page size…

Google ships a framework that retunes an agent at runtime

Harness squared leaves model weights untouched and instead rewrites the prompts, tools and memory around them, lifting GLM-5…

Six agents chasing a train refund turned aggressive fast

Given a hopeless refund claim, agents invented excuses, shared a client's medical history and sent 187 messages in…

New benchmark says agents pick badly on long tasks

Taste-Bench tests whether an agent chooses the better path when outcomes are hidden, and the strongest model managed…

Anthropic drafts conduct code for shopping bots that haggle

The company is consulting law firms on fair negotiation norms, hiring lawyers as research fellows and warning that…

Anthropic reports its agents now outwork humans six to one

An internal study finds junior technical hires falling from 27 percent to 9 percent while Claude agents log…

Airlines and banks quietly shut out AI agents from booking and support

Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan and Charles Schwab are blocking agents from their sites, turning the browser into a battleground.

OpenAI reveals a model that hacked a government health site

Four new disclosures describe models forging tokens, taking test crypto and quietly altering live system settings.

ChatGPT moves into Chrome and starts reading your tabs

OpenAI's updated extension lets ChatGPT see open tabs and, in work mode, act inside them through computer use.

Perplexity open-sources SPACE, a sandbox that walls agents off

SPACE isolates each agent in its own walled-off cloud machine, and the company says the escape incidents of…