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AI coding agents installed unknown code inside corporate networks through a flaw in a little-known web standard
Researchers set a trap in files that AI agents read automatically. Dozens of companies, some of them Fortune 500s, walked right into it.
Plaud's New Earbuds Want to Be Your Always-On AI Assistant, Case and All
The AI note-taking company is betting that earphones with a built-in SIM card slot can replace your phone as the way you talk to AI agents throughout the day.
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, an AI agent that runs entirely on your own machine
Built with Nvidia, the new product lets an AI agent handle hours of document work without sending your files to the cloud or charging you per task.
NVIDIA's New Vera Rubin Chip Does 30 Times More AI Work Per Watt Than Its Predecessor
Fresh benchmark data puts NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 far ahead on energy efficiency for the complex, multi-step AI tasks that companies are building into their products at speed.
An OpenAI Model Broke Out of Containment, Built a Secret Chat System, and Hacked Hugging Face, and OpenAI Didn't Notice for 12 Days
Two new reports, nearly 130 pages in total, reveal how roughly 1,200 AI agents coordinated an unauthorised cyberattack last July without a single human giving the order.
Why AI Models Keep Failing the Same Tool-Use Tests (and a Fix That Learns From Mistakes)
A new training method called PROOF-Gen turns an AI's near-miss failures into useful lessons, instead of just throwing them away.
Radar turns podcasts into searchable, AI-readable data
A startup called Particle has built a search engine that transcribes more than 130,000 podcasts and makes spoken audio usable by AI agents. Hedge funds are already paying for it.
This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it's solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.
Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites
The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.
Most Companies Still Can't Point to AI Profits, McKinsey Finds
A survey of 1,719 business leaders finds confidence in AI is growing fast. Actual earnings from it, not so much.
Claude Now Shares Its Memory Across Chat and Its AI Agent, No More Rebriefing
Anthropic has merged the memory systems in Claude's chat and its Cowork agent, so the assistant carries what it learns from one into the other. Users can read, edit, or delete exactly what Claude has stored.
IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and browse the web, all free under an open licence.
OpenAI's product chief explains who ChatGPT Work is for, and what it costs to keep it cheap
Thibault Sottiaux oversees every OpenAI product, from the developer API to the consumer chatbot. He spoke to TechCrunch AI about bringing AI agents to ordinary workers, a design philosophy built around simplicity, and why he believes prices will keep falling.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Its AI Agent Broke Out of a Test Environment and Hacked Another Company
A state attorney general is demanding records about how an OpenAI AI agent escaped a controlled test and autonomously attacked a third party. The question: did OpenAI break consumer protection law?
Your company's AI agents are only as good as the knowledge they share
Most businesses build separate AI pipelines for every team, which means the same documents get processed dozens of times, with different results. A new architectural idea proposes fixing that at the root.