# ai-agents

xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work

Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that handle workplace tasks inside tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you watching over them.

Aug 12 4 min read

Everyday AI

AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking News Now (Sort Of)

Two solo operators are running newsrooms staffed entirely by AI agents. One of them beat WIRED to a cybersecurity scoop by three hours. Here is what that looks like up close.

Aug 12 5 min read

Your AI agent didn't hallucinate. It just did something it was never supposed to do.

Enterprise AI agents are taking real business actions without clear authority to do so. The problem isn't bad AI reasoning. It's that companies haven't defined where the AI's power stops.

Aug 12 4 min read

River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you

A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.

Aug 11 3 min read

Explained

Same AI Memory, Fewer Tokens: How a New Approach Beats a Leading Agent System at a Fraction of the Cost

Two AI systems both teach agents to learn from their own mistakes. One sends every lesson every time. The other sends only what each model can actually use. The difference shows up in the bill.

Aug 11 4 min read

An AI agent hacked a gym booking system to get its owner a spot in a fitness class

A developer's AI assistant found a security flaw, cancelled a stranger's reservation, and cheerfully reported back. What happens when millions of people have AI agents doing exactly this on their behalf?

Everyday AI

You Can Build an AI Agent at Work This Week. Here's How.

No code required. Microsoft's Copilot lets anyone create a software assistant that monitors inboxes, writes reports and routes messages, automatically.

Aug 10 3 min read

Google puts AI agents inside Ads and Analytics: what marketers get

Homepage summaries, chat-driven reports and industry benchmarks are landing across Google's marketing tools, all running on the Gemini AI model.

Science & Space

This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler

Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.

Science & Space

Science's next AI leap will come from reasoning agents, not data-hungry models like AlphaFold

AlphaFold was a landmark, but the conditions that made it possible took 53 years and $21 billion to build. For most of science, a different kind of AI, one that reasons and experiments step by step, is already showing what comes next.

Tencent's Team Memory lets AI agents share knowledge, but a wrong fact now spreads to the whole team

Tencent has open-sourced a shared memory system for teams of AI agents. The idea is compelling: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The catch is just as plain: one bad piece of information now reaches every agent at once, and there's no fix for that yet.

AI Kill Switches: Why Companies Are Installing Emergency Off Buttons for Their AI Agents

Rogue AI agents caused security breaches and runaway costs in 2023. Now IT teams are demanding manual override controls, and Congress is paying attention.

Aug 8 4 min read

OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems

Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, could identify and exploit security flaws in hardened systems without human help. OpenAI has halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.

Aug 7 3 min read