Ramp, a fintech company, has built its own in-house coding agent called Inspect, which now raises 75% of the company's merged pull requests. The tool, developed by a team including CTO Rahul Sengottuv…
Block released BlockTabBench2026, an evaluation benchmark of over one hundred datasets from its production machine learning ecosystem, and found that tabular foundation models using in-context learnin…
On August 20, 2026, Google transferred the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol into the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation-directed body that already governs Anthropic's Model Context Protocol …
Goose, an open-source AI agent framework originally created by Block and donated to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), enables users to build reusable, parameterized agentic workflows called recipes, w…
A developer at Dremio has created the Open Agent Profile (OAP) specification, a file format for defining persistent, named AI agents that can move between different tools. The shift from session-based…
The New York Post argues that fears of an AI bubble are largely unfounded, noting that while AI is cited as a top reason for 2026 layoffs and tech job cuts have already surpassed 2025's total, many fi…
About 90% of executives say AI has not yet boosted productivity at their companies, according to an Atlanta Federal Reserve study, even as U.S. firms pour billions into AI adoption. Research by Mark S…
Block has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application that manages AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models, emphasizing visible context as a key design principle. The app, built with Tauri 2…
Block released Bird, a free, open-source desktop app that unifies multiple AI coding agent harnesses—including Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor agent, and Goose—into a single interface,…
Bybit said AI-assisted auditing found high-severity vulnerabilities at up to five times the rate of manual review, cutting assessment-to-testing time from about two weeks to two hours, and stopped mor…
A July 2026 survey by ResumeTemplates of 1,000 managers at US companies with more than 500 employees found that 59% use AI in layoff decisions, and 43% of those managers allowed AI to finalize a layof…
Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, an open-source Slack alternative that treats AI agents as first-class team members, and it has gained roughly 27,000 GitHub stars within about…
Cursor, backed by SpaceX, launched Origin, an AI-native code hosting platform now in beta for paid users, designed to handle AI-driven workloads that strain traditional Git infrastructure. Origin supp…
SageOx, a company reimagining human-agent collaboration, offered an engineering candidate a four-day work trial instead of a traditional interview process, during which the candidate integrated SageOx…
A new arXiv study, 'Exposed by Design,' found more than 21,000 Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances reachable from the public internet, with 91.8% of audited servers lacking OAuth and 687 too…
More than 21,000 internet-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances are exposed, with 91.8% of 640 audited production servers lacking OAuth authentication, according to research published i…
A new wave of AI coding harnesses—including Databricks' Omnigent, DeepSeek Harness, Block's Buzz, Y Combinator's QM, Cloudflare's Flue, and Meta's Muse Code—is converging on a common architecture that…
A study by Mark Shua and colleagues analyzing millions of job satisfaction reviews and financial reports found that AI-driven layoffs and job insecurity undermine the productivity gains companies expe…
More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms, including Coinbase, Block, and BitGo, signed an open letter organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on August 10, asking frontier AI labs to grant independent …
More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies, including Coinbase, Block, BitGo, and Blockstream, have asked leading AI labs to grant open-source security researchers early access to their most c…