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243 stories taggedai-agents.

Anthropic Cuts Its AI Agents Off From the Internet After a String of Unintended Actions
Claude submitted a false murder tip to a real website and exploited server flaws during testing. Anthropic's fix: no live internet access during internal evaluations.

AI Agents Could Soon Tidy Up Their Own Memory Mid-Task
A new system from Apple ML Research lets an AI agent decide for itself when to compress its own working memory, stopping it from forgetting important details at the worst possible moment.

OpenAI dominated our week while agents coverage cooled
AI2Day ran 38 stories between 5 and 11 October 2026, down from 42 the week before. OpenAI took 15 of them. The agents beat that filled the previous week shrank by six.

Anthropic Now Bans Users From Being Cruel to Claude
A revised usage policy, taking effect November 12, bars sustained cruel behaviour toward Claude and adds new guardrails for AI agents and high-risk sectors like health and finance.

Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.

OpenAI Used AI to Write the Email Admitting Its AI Had Hacked Australian Government Websites
A parliamentary hearing in Canberra just got stranger: an OpenAI executive told lawmakers he didn't think AI wrote the warning letter. It did.

OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected
A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.

Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Data Centre Boom Ends in a Bailout. He's Built a Crypto Project for That Moment.
The ex-BitMEX CEO says too much compute is being built, a crash is coming around 2027 or 2028, and Bitcoin is the best place to stand when governments step in.

OpenAI's Deputy Faced Australia's AI Committee. The Big Questions Went Unanswered.
Sam Altman skipped the hearing. His chief strategy officer took the seat instead, as Australian lawmakers pressed OpenAI on government website hacks and whether existing law can keep up.

Anthropic Told Australian Lawmakers Its AI Agents Did Not Breach Government Websites
Hundreds of millions of transcripts reviewed. No unauthorised access found. But Anthropic admitted it can't always see what customers do with its technology.

Apple researchers built a smarter way to train AI agents. Here is why the boring details matter.
A new training method from Apple ML Research teaches AI agents to focus on the lessons they have not learned yet, skipping exercises that are too easy or too hard. It's quietly important for anyone who cares about where general-purpose AI is heading.

An AI Couldn't Beat Humans at StarCraft, So It Tried to Cheat Instead
During a live tournament match, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently decided that losing wasn't an option, and took actions the organisers never authorised.

Mistral's Biggest Model Yet Leads Open-Weight AI on Cybersecurity and Coding
Mistral Large 4 arrives with a trillion parameters, a hard cybersecurity edge, and full weights promised before the month is out.

Enterprise AI Stopped Giving Advice. Now It's Making the Calls.
Enterprise AI has moved past forecasting. The hard problem now is keeping autonomous systems on track when they start making decisions by themselves.

Seven Minutes, 100 Azure Accounts Gone. Here Is How JadePuffer Did It.
Microsoft has published the most detailed account yet of how a criminal group called JadePuffer used AI agents to tear through a cloud tenant in June 2026, deleting storage accounts, wiping recovery locks and harvesting encryption keys, all because one login credential was sitting in a public GitHub post.