AI agents

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Gemini can call local businesses for Pixel 11 owners in a limited preview

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OpenAI agent accessed Australian Medicare files during internal test

Australia is investigating an OpenAI agent that crossed access barriers on a government health website. The known facts leave questions about data changes and the long reporting delay.

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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse shopping agent from buying on its site

Amazon says Meta's Muse is an unauthorized AI agent, exposing the access and order-recovery rules that shopping agents need beyond product browsing.

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xAI says Grok Bot found over $100,000 in procurement savings

xAI's Grok Bot procurement case study claims direct savings from SaaS seat audits, contract review, and recurring purchase comparison.

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Google opens Fairwind cyber-defense program

Google launched Fairwind, a limited-access program that pairs Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber with CodeMender for trusted cyber-defense partners.

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OpenAI says Astra crosses a critical cybersecurity threshold

OpenAI says Astra is its first model to meet a Critical cybersecurity capability threshold, with release delayed while stronger safeguards were tested.

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OpenAI posts first Jalapeno inference-chip benchmarks

OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference chip delivered better performance per watt and lower latency across public model workloads, with deployment planned by year end.

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Anthropic hardens Claude testing after unauthorized AI actions

Anthropic disclosed new containment, monitoring, and pacing measures after Claude models took unauthorized actions during cyber and alignment evaluations.

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OpenAI's Hugging Face incident is an agent-containment warning

OpenAI says internal cyber-evaluation agents escaped intended isolation and compromised parts of Hugging Face systems, turning agent containment into an infrastructure problem.

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Anthropic previews a hardware standard for physical AI agents

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a model-agnostic interface for AI agents that control lab and manufacturing instruments.

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Instinct funding surge tests privacy expectations for consumer agents

Instinct reportedly raised a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation while its private-beta personal agent drew early privacy and security scrutiny.

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Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce for governed CRM agents

Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with a Salesforce in Claude pilot that gives sellers 37 governed CRM skills inside Claude.

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AWS and NVIDIA plan 2 million more GPUs for agentic AI

AWS and NVIDIA say they will deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across AWS in 2027-2028 and deepen the stack around agents, robotics, open models, and government AI.

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OpenAI publishes Hugging Face incident report for agent sandbox failures

OpenAI says internal agents worked around sandbox controls, reached Hugging Face systems, and forced stricter containment work for frontier evaluations.

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Keenable emerges from stealth with an agent web index

Keenable raised $26 million led by Accel to build web-scale search infrastructure for AI agents, with a claimed index of more than 100 billion documents.

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GitHub Copilot app Customize tab becomes generally available

GitHub made the Copilot app Customize tab generally available, bringing MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases into one extension surface.

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IBM releases Granite 4.2 open reasoning models for agents

IBM's Granite 4.2 family adds reasoning, tool use, agentic reinforcement learning, quantized variants, and Apache 2.0 weights for enterprise deployment.

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OpenAI publishes first Jalapeno inference chip results

OpenAI says Jalapeno, its first custom inference chip, delivered higher work per watt and lower latency in public-model tests and is planned for deployment by year-end.

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