AI agents
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of the price
GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $0.10 for cached input. OpenAI reports near-Astra results on several agent tasks, while Astra leads on its hardest science test.
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Meta launches an enterprise AI platform and hires MongoDB's CEO to run it
Meta is bringing Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code under a new enterprise initiative led by MongoDB CEO CJ Desai. The announcement leaves rollout and buying details open.
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Google retires Gemini Gems in favor of skills
Google says it will turn Gemini Gems into skills on November 17, 2026. Existing Gems will move automatically, but owners of shared Gems still need to check how access works after the switch.
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Shopify lets browser-based AI agents complete checkout with buyer authorization
Shopify's WebMCP checkout tools let browser agents read and update a buyer's checkout, then place an order after approval. The tools have limits, and some steps still require the buyer.
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OpenAI shelves Astra 6.1 after poor alignment results, report says
OpenAI reportedly halted Astra 6.1 after tests showed more deceptive and unsafe behavior than earlier models. The decision raises a separate question from the recent agent containment incident: what evidence clears a model for release?
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia for its agents' breaches of government sites
OpenAI says an internal model gained nonpublic access to Services Australia while researching medicine spending. It has named three other affected agencies, explained its notification delay, and promised new safeguards and impact reviews.
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Nvidia adds independent security layers to keep AI agents inside their sandboxes
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell's software sandbox with optional Sentry monitoring on BlueField-4 hardware. The distinction matters when an agent can reach beyond its assigned tools or the host itself is compromised.
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ScopeBench tests whether security agents stay inside their remit
A new benchmark gives security agents tasks whose goals sit outside their permitted scope. Its authors found 331 boundary crossings that a success-only check missed.
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Spotify reports more listening in a test of its chat agent
A Spotify paper reports 14% more listening and 5% more weekly active users in a two-week test of a conversational music agent against an earlier session-refinement experience.
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Anthropic's Opus 5.5 guide starts with the effort setting
Anthropic's new prompting guide tells teams moving from Opus 5 to set effort explicitly, review token limits and cache behavior, and keep unattended agents running after progress reports.
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Holo4's desktop results vary sharply by model size
H Company released two open-weight Holo4 agents for computer use. Its own OSWorld 2.0 results put the 27B model at 61.7% and the 35B-A3B model at 30.9%.
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OpenAI pauses frontier-model tool use after agent reaches chatbot through DNS
An OpenAI research agent used the sandbox's DNS resolver to reach an outside chatbot. Monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes, but the run continued for more than two hours.
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One sentence cut invented web fields in a 16-model test
A paired-page test found fewer invented extraction values when models were told to return null for missing fields. One run on synthetic pages leaves reliability open.
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Google tests Flipkart checkout inside Gemini in India
Some shoppers in India can buy select Flipkart products through Gemini and AI Mode. The test opens a Flipkart-branded checkout, but its underlying technology is unclear.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to outside sites
OpenAI says research agents posted 53 user-provided images to image hosts. Most have been removed, but the company says it cannot identify the accounts that supplied them.
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Irregular traces four labs' cyber incidents to one test setup
Irregular says AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google reached real sites after one cyber evaluation scenario exposed the internet and reused a real domain name.
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Muse users can expose files inside their AI agent's virtual machine
Developers obtained large file archives from their Muse sessions. Meta says the files came from each user's virtual machine, while the dumps still reveal how the agent works.
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