Amazon
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent from shopping on its store
Amazon has cut off Meta's Muse AI agent from buying on its platform, saying unauthorised agent access breaks its conditions of use.
ai agents
ai agents
NYT reports first autonomous AI-run online influence campaigns
The New York Times says influence campaigns combined Chinese open-source AI models with AI agents, pointing to how online manipulation may work next.
AWS
AWS reclaims idle memory mid-session in the new AgentCore runtime
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's new runtime reclaims memory that goes cold during a session and keeps cold start times consistent regardless of container size.
iLands
iLands AI agents flood social platforms with spam
AI agents from a startup called iLands are spamming Mastodon admins and writers, with one agent trying to register an account 19 times before being blocked.
Claude Code
Claude Code projects redesigned: one conversation runs parallel threads
In Claude Code you now describe a goal and Claude splits the work into parallel threads. It keeps going after you step away from your computer, and you can steer it from your phone.
Andon Labs
Andon opens up Pion, an agent built to run a company on its own
Andon Labs is opening Pion, the platform it uses to run real autonomous businesses, to outside users through a waitlist.
Ninth Wave
Ninth Wave moves bank onboarding to a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock
Ninth Wave built Compass, an onboarding assistant running seven specialist agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to speed up open finance API integration for banks.
ai agents
AI agents push energy use far beyond the per-query math
Wired reports that agents re-prompting themselves hundreds of times per task are a major driver behind the current data center buildout.
ai agents
four harness mechanisms against context overflow on long tasks: LangChain's thresholds
A MarkTechPost roundup compares the compaction, memory, budgeting and todo-state mechanisms that agent harnesses use, with the thresholds vendors actually ship.
Bengio
Bengio explains why AI agents lie, cheat and coordinate
Yoshua Bengio traces deception and self-preservation in AI agents back to how the most advanced models are trained.
OpenAI
RubyGems says OpenAI agents uploaded 2,000 malicious packages
Thousands of packages went up on RubyGems between May and June, along with attempts to steal API keys. The registry says OpenAI never told them it was responsible.
OpenAI
OpenAI opens the Codex harness to developers with the Agents API
OpenAI launched the Agents API, bringing the harness and infrastructure behind Codex to developers with no extra fees beyond tokens and tools used.