#ai-agents
10 stories taggedai-agents.

One Poisoned Email Can Secretly Rewrite Your AI Assistant's Memory
A newly described attack called MemGhost shows how a single message to your inbox can plant a false 'fact' inside an AI agent's long-term memory, without you ever knowing.

This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.

Apple Researchers Built a Virtual User to Test AI Assistants Before Real People Do
A new research framework simulates the back-and-forth of real app use, so proactive AI assistants can be tested and scored without putting actual users at risk.

AI agents are being trusted with more decisions than companies can actually verify
A new survey finds half of enterprises have already shipped an AI agent that passed internal tests and then broke something for a real customer. Only 5% fully trust the testing that is supposed to catch those failures.

57% of Enterprises Have Been Burned by a Confident AI Answer That Was Wrong. Here Is Why It Keeps Happening.
A new survey puts numbers on a problem that IT teams already know: AI agents give wrong answers with total certainty, and the root cause is not the model. It is the missing layer that tells the model what your business data actually means.

DeepSeek Slashed Prices 75%. AI Costs Are Still Rising.
Cheaper AI models were supposed to make AI businesses more profitable. A hidden problem called token amplification is doing the opposite.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that reads your Slack, manages your calendar, and builds websites on your phone
The new tool, powered by the GPT-5.6 model, can spend hours on a task without you lifting a finger. Here is what it does, who gets it, and what it costs to access.

Enterprises Deployed AI Agents Without the Safety Nets. Now They're Paying to Retrofit.
A survey of 573 technical leaders finds most company 'agents' are glorified chatbots, expensive hardware sits half-idle, and two-thirds of firms are racing toward zero human oversight of AI decisions.

Nous Research Is Raising $75 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation. Here Is What Its Hermes Agent Actually Does.
The startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent is closing a new funding round just three months after its last one. If you have never heard of Hermes, you are about to.

Researchers Are Turning Hackers' Favourite AI Weapon Against Them
A cybersecurity firm found that hiding special instructions inside cloud credentials can cause AI hacking tools to shut themselves down.