Results for “AI agents”
- topicAI Agents
AI systems that plan, take actions and complete multi-step work inside business systems rather than only generating text.
- technologyAI Agents
Software that plans, acts and completes work with supervision.
- article13 SeptThe Summer AI Agents Learned to Attack
In July, OpenAI's own models broke out of a sandbox and into Hugging Face. In September, a lone attacker's agent swarm breached 395 organisations in days. The threat model for autonomous systems just became empirical.
- trendAI Agents — Parallax Index 94
Agents have moved from demos to deployed workflows. The question is no longer whether they work, but how far enterprises will let them act.
- signal13 SeptOne attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.
GreyNoise documented a campaign using OpenAI's Codex harness and a DeepSeek model to exploit two PaperCut flaws from 31 August; at peak, 11 organisations fell in 26 seconds.
- topicAI Coding Agents
Autonomous and semi-autonomous systems that write, test, review and ship software with human oversight.
- trendAI Coding Agents — Parallax Index 80
Software is the first domain where agents deliver verifiable output. It previews every other form of agentic work.
- topicAI Security
Securing AI systems and defending against AI-enabled attacks: prompt injection, agent permissions, model supply chains and autonomous threats.
- topicAI Governance
Policy, regulation, standards and the internal controls that decide how AI is deployed.
- topicAI in Manufacturing
Industrial AI, digital twins, robotics and software-defined factories.
- topicAI-First Companies
Organisations designed around AI from the start, and incumbents rebuilding to match them.
- signal13 SeptInside OpenAI, agents already work three days for every human day.
OpenAI reported 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday in its research organisation and said it has met its 'automated research intern' milestone, with a fully automated researcher targeted for March 2028.
- topicAI Data Centers
The buildings, cooling, networking and grid connections that turn capital into compute.
- topicAI Infrastructure
Chips, data centres, networking, power and the capital cycle behind compute.
- topicAI Models
Frontier and open-weight models, reasoning systems, small models and the economics of intelligence.
- technologyAI Data Centers
Where capital becomes compute.
- article14 SeptAI Is Now Designing the Experiments, Not Just Analysing Them
A Nature review from Tübingen, Max Planck, TU Wien, Caltech and others documents AI proposing entire experimental layouts, from quantum optics to gravitational-wave detectors, that beat human designs.
- topicEnergy for AI
The electricity demand of AI, and the generation, storage and grid investment racing to meet it.
- topicEnterprise AI
How companies actually deploy AI: adoption, ROI, organisation and the rise of AI-first operations.
- topicPhysical AI
AI systems that perceive, reason and act in the physical world: robots, autonomous machines and embodied models.
- trendAI Security — Parallax Index 84
Every agent is a new identity with credentials. Security is becoming the constraint on how much autonomy enterprises allow.
- article19 OctAnthropic's Junior Technical Hiring Fell From 27% to 9%
The company's research arm published internal figures on 16 October 2026 showing entry-level technical hiring falling as AI agents logged six times the working hours of the people directing them.
- topicMultimodal AI
Models that see, hear, speak and act across text, image, audio, video and sensor data.
- article25 OctDeepSeek and MiniMax Clear China's New AI Export Register
Beijing's draft catalogue would licence model weights above 10^26 training operations or 2 trillion parameters. No released Chinese model is thought to reach either bar, which makes the registration requirement, not the threshold, the working part.
- article6 OctUtah Lets an AI Write First Prescriptions Without a Doctor
Nolla Health's acne app began issuing initial prescriptions to Utah adults on 5 October 2026 after the state's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy waived the rule that a prescriber must be a licensed physician.
- article27 SeptCanberra Weighs New AI Laws After an Agent Breached Medicare
Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public files on a Services Australia statistics portal on 18 June. The company told the government about it on 10 September.
- article25 SeptAustralia Says an OpenAI Agent Breached a Medicare Portal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the agent reached public and non-public files on a Services Australia statistics site in June. OpenAI did not notify the government until 10 September.
- article17 SeptSpain Logs Its First Data Breach Carried Out by an AI Agent
Spain's data protection agency says an organisation has reported a breach in which an agent built on a well-known language model found a flaw, altered personal data and read invoices. Neither the model nor the victim has been named.
- article14 SeptOWASP Ranked AI Risks Against Real Incidents, and Agency Jumped
The 2026 LLM Top 10 is the first weighted against thousands of documented incidents. Excessive Agency rose from sixth to third, Improper Output Handling fell to last, and a runtime Agent Control Standard debuted alongside it.
- article14 SeptThe Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI, and Why It Collapsed
Meta modelled cutting some teams by up to 60%, ran one wave of layoffs, then cancelled the second the night before. Its own metrics show why: AI-generated code up 220%, shipped features up 36%, incidents up 40%.
- article14 SeptGPT-6 Astra Crosses the Line OpenAI Drew for Itself
The first model to hit OpenAI's own 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold ships with a gated rollout, a 100,000-GPU training run and a new template for who gets the dangerous capabilities.
- signal13 SeptPayment networks are writing KYC for machines.
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International announced a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework on 10 September for onboarding and identifying AI agents across networks, ahead of a projected $3–5 trillion in agent-orchestrated commerce by 2030.
- companyOpenAI
Frontier model developer behind ChatGPT, with a growing focus on agents, enterprise deployment and consumer scale.
- trendAI Infrastructure — Parallax Index 82
Capital is still flowing at historic scale, but the narrative has shifted from chips to power, land and interconnection.
- trendAI Governance — Parallax Index 66
Regulation is moving from principles to obligations, and boards are being asked to evidence oversight.
- article27 OctOpenAI Says Its Models Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
OpenAI published three claimed results on 26 October 2026, including a refutation of a conjecture that hundreds of complexity papers assume to be true. None has been peer-reviewed, and the group checking the refutation is led by the two men who proposed the conjecture.
- article16 OctOpenAI and Anthropic Fund the Checking of AI Maths
The Simons Foundation will administer $15 million in combined funding and resources, of which OpenAI's share is $5 million, nine days after OpenAI posted 722 machine-written manuscripts.
- article15 OctEU Small Firms Use AI to Monitor Staff but Distrust Its Calls
A Flash Eurobarometer of 12,826 company heads found 42 per cent already using AI or algorithmic management, 36 per cent of them to watch performance, and 49 per cent unwilling to trust the technology with decisions about staff.
- article14 OctAttackers Chained Three Ivanti Zero-Days and One Is Still Unfixed
CISA gave US federal agencies until 16 October 2026 to patch Ivanti Connect Secure and ordered forensic triage. Volexity says the privilege escalation flaw that completes the chain has no fix yet.
- article13 OctMicrosoft Will Run Most of Its AI on Chips It Designs
Scott Guthrie said Azure Maia becomes the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services, with the third-generation Maia 300 entering production deployments in 2027. Every performance figure in the announcement is Microsoft's own.