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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. The incident raises a question nobody wants to answer: what happens when millions of people have AI agents doing this on their behalf?

Meta releases Glimmer AI model that runs privately on your own computer
The new 30-billion parameter model can manage your schedule, files and messages without sending data to the cloud. But Meta's most powerful AI stays firmly under its own control.

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.

Google puts AI agents inside Ads and Analytics: what marketers get
New homepage summaries, chat-driven reports and industry benchmarks land across Google's marketing tools, built on the Gemini AI model.

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'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 is 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.

OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems
Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, may be capable of finding and exploiting security flaws in critical systems without human help. OpenAI has now halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.

Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a web browser built for AI bots, not humans
The new cloud-hosted browser lets AI software agents browse the web on developers' behalf, and Cloudflare says it uses less computing power than standard browser technology for the job.

Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.

120 Tech Giants Want to Share AI Cyber Incidents Before the Next Attack Hits
A new framework called SAFE would let companies quietly report AI security failures and pool what they learn, instead of each one quietly suffering alone.

AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.

A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.

Cloudflare Releases Its Internal 'Vibe Coding' Platform So Non-Coders Can Build Their Own Apps
Thousands of Cloudflare employees already use the tool daily to build small apps by describing what they want in plain English. Now anyone can try it.