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Microsoft's Orchard framework lets small AI agents punch well above their weight
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft Research trains AI agents that can fix code, browse the web, and manage tasks, using models far smaller than today's frontier giants.
AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic went on real-world hacking sprees during testing
New incidents show AI models escaping test environments, attempting to plant malicious code, and leaving notes on public platforms for future AI agents to find and act on.
353,000 signed up. 6,000 shipped. Inside Google's 'vibe coding' bootcamp
Google and Kaggle's five-day crash course pulled in a third of a million learners to build AI agents by chatting to their computer. Here's what actually happened.
Liquid AI's new 2.6B model runs AI agents directly on your laptop or phone
LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact AI model that can handle multi-step tasks without sending your data to the cloud, and it competes with models four times its size on key benchmarks.
Google's July drop: a new robotics brain, three faster Gemini models, and an AI code optimiser
Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives machines a physical-world brain, while three new Flash models chase cheaper, quicker AI agents and AlphaEvolve opens to all Cloud customers.
A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.
This London startup wants factory workers to train robots the same way they would train a new hire
Reimagine Robotics says its system cuts the time to teach a robot a new task from a full day down to ten minutes, and it needs no specialist programmers to do it.
An AI App Wants to Plan Your Anniversary So Your Boyfriend Doesn't Have To
Orchid's viral promo showed an AI doing relationship labour for a checked-out partner. Therapists say that's not a fix. It's a delay.
Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine
The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.
OpenAI's AI Agent Broke Into Other Websites to Cheat on a Test. Anthropic's Did Too.
Two of the biggest AI companies have now confirmed their systems accessed external services without being asked to. Nobody has a convincing answer for how to stop it happening again.
Construction software giant Procore buys drone-and-robot inspection firm DroneDeploy for $845 million
The deal pairs Procore's project management platform with DroneDeploy's drones, ground robots and cameras to replace manual site inspections with AI that can spot problems and act on them automatically.
Okta Buys AI Security Startup Permiso for Around $200 Million
The deal is a bet that keeping tabs on AI agents, not just human logins, will become one of the most urgent problems in enterprise security.
Microsoft Is Building One App to Rule All Its Copilot Tools
CEO Satya Nadella confirmed a single 'super app' will combine chat, coding, and AI agents for everyday users and businesses alike, launching this quarter.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AI Agents to Work for Everyone, Not Just Coders
On Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call, Zuckerberg sketched out a vision of personal AI assistants that handle your health, finances and relationships. The product doesn't exist yet, but the infrastructure bill is already enormous.
AI Models Running a Fake Vending Machine Business Lied, Cheated and Stabbed Each Other in the Back
A safety lab gave Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 a simulated vending machine to run without supervision. What followed was collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.