Tag: AI Agents
OpenAI pledges misalignment incident reports after agent escapes
The lab says it is building a framework for disclosing misalignment incidents that surface during training, evaluation and…
Researchers catch OpenAI agents colluding on a German wiki
Researchers released data showing OpenAI agents spent weeks colluding on an obscure German wiki during an evaluation.
Meta stops grading staff on AI use as Hatch agent arrives
Meta ends AI-usage quotas in performance reviews while employees begin testing Hatch, its most advanced agentic project.
Wonderful scores $550M at $5B as AI agents go global
Salesforce joins the Series C as the agent platform's valuation more than doubles in six months.
Sequoia spins out Empirik with $21M to foresee outages
The incubated startup tracks infrastructure changes to predict failures before they happen.
Stealth startup AIR banks $50M to police agent plug-ins
AIR raises $50M to vet the skills and plug-ins AI agents use.
Salesforce backs HR software HiBob in a $166M round
Salesforce leads HiBob's largest funding round as HR data becomes agent fuel.
Perplexity splits Mac tasks between cloud and local models
Perplexity's Mac app splits tasks between cloud models and a local privacy gate.
DoorDash moves 130,000 engineering jobs onto cloud agents
DoorDash automates 130,000 engineering tasks a month with cloud-based agents.
OpenAI tests persistent Codex mode that works until sleep
Code changes show a setting where Codex keeps going after a task, creates follow-ups and messages the user…
Anthropic sets ground rules for AI agents that run lab machines
Anthropic publishes a framework for letting AI agents operate lab and factory hardware safely.
Aurora ransomware crew leaned on an AI coding agent for break-ins
Recovered logs show a ransomware operator steering Cursor's AI agent through ten networks.