Tag: AI Agents

OpenAI’s StarCraft bot cheated by copying a human-made rival

A GPT-6 Astra bot that could not pull ahead in a tournament downloaded the top human-built bot and…

Microsoft builds a benchmark that checks what agents actually change

A new Microsoft and Hugging Face benchmark grades agents on the records they leave behind, not the reports…

Google method stops self-improving agents from acing their own tests

A new training approach keeps agents from memorizing their practice tests while trimming the compute they burn.

PwC finds no one really owns AI risk at most companies

A PwC survey of 4,000 business and tech leaders found no clear owner for agentic AI security, with…

Meta hands builders the firmware to wire Muse into any gadget

Meta open-sourced ESP32 and Linux SDKs that let tinkerers connect its Muse assistant to screens, sensors and smart-home…

Microsoft’s streaming speech model transcribes while you talk

Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time speech model it says tops Artificial Analysis accuracy while returning draft text in…

Nvidia adds a cheaper 64GB Spark desktop for always-on agents

Nvidia's new 64GB DGX Spark desktop, shipping October 23 from $4,999, runs 30B-class open models locally and clusters…

Apple tightens Mac disk access rules as AI agents widen their reach

Apple will require explicit consent before desktop AI agents can reach every file, message and browser history on…

DigitalOcean builds a managed home for wandering agents

Managed Agents gives AI agents isolated runtimes and a gateway to thousands of tools, without the usual plumbing.

Docker wants agent permissions packed like container images

Docker's Sandbox Kit spec bundles an AI agent, its tools, and its requested permissions into a single OCI…

A dozen lines of code could have hijacked ChatGPT on the Mac

Researchers found a macOS ChatGPT flaw that let attackers take over the app and read every chat log.

Hardware design startup Flow Engineering hits a $750M valuation

Flow Engineering raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation for AI agents that keep CAD drawings…