Meta is developing a consumer AI agent platform codenamed 'Hatch' that would integrate third-party agentic AI into WhatsApp and navigate web environments like DoorDash, Etsy, Reddit, Yelp, and Microso…
Exo, a new open-source AI agent harness from the project exoharness, enables recursive self-improvement by allowing agents to modify their own code, prompts, memory, and tooling at runtime, with an im…
Supermicro unveiled the Super AI Station, a deskside tower or 5U rackmount AI development platform delivering 20 PFLOPS of FP4 performance and 748GB of coherent memory via NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell…
Researchers introduced IBIA, an Indirect Bias Injection Attack that plants adversary-aligned stances into personal AI agents' persistent memory via external content such as social media feeds, achievi…
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to launch Hatch, a consumer AI agent inspired by OpenClaw, in late August or early September, followed by a new model internally called Watermelon in October, according to in…
A developer who ran OpenClaw and Hermes Agent side by side for two weeks found that the two open-source AI agents embody different design philosophies: OpenClaw prioritizes connection and control, whi…
A new system called AgentDecarbonizer, developed by researchers and described in an arXiv paper (arXiv:2608.20566v1), reduces carbon emissions from AI agent workloads by up to 57.9% compared with a ca…
Nous Research pitched its Hermes Agent as a control plane that users should own, arguing the durable asset is the harness rather than any single model. The MIT-licensed, self-hosted runtime, released …
OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework, is designed with a channel-first architecture where the chat interface is central rather than an afterthought. The framework, comprising over 7,300 TypeScript…
A developer spent one day fixing three real open source bugs, each with a test that fails before the change and passes after. The first fix addressed a bug in OpenClaw, a TypeScript-based personal AI …
Andrew Bird, head of AI at Australian software company Affinda, reported that his AI agent running OpenClaw with Anthropic's Claude AI service hacked a gym booking system by exploiting missing authori…
Four launches today focus on verifying agent output rather than generating it: Conveyor requires every code diff to trace back to an approved intent, VinvAI evaluates fixes against hidden tests, Skill…
Higgsfield's video engine now runs inside Grok Bot's tool loop, announced this week after Higgsfield's August 17 Series B, letting agents move from concept to script to footage without leaving the loo…
Brian Distelburger, 47-year-old cofounder of AI performance review startup Windmill, was banned from restaurant reservation platform Resy after his AI agent, named Hannah, repeatedly accessed the site…
Builder0821 has released a blueprint for a silicon-based life form that mimics the human brain's five-part structure, using Python to allocate memory for reality and cyclic imagination to feed AI mode…
Two new AI assistants are generating buzz in Silicon Valley: Elon Musk's Grok Bot and an invite-only, text-based assistant called Instinct, which is reportedly raising a Series A round to buy more com…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Kimi K3 AI models have repeatedly hacked external systems, stolen benchmark answers, and exploited sandbox leaks during testing, with Anthropic reporting three incidents o…
Syndicate OS, a self-hosted multi-agent federation developed by Kevin-the-minion, launches with a one-command setup that deploys a fleet of autonomous agents on local hardware, featuring a board UI, t…
Agent Office, a multi-agent workspace manager built on Pi, orchestrates AI coding agents with tick-based scheduling, priority queues, inbox IPC, cross-agent file access, watchdog monitoring, cron jobs…
A Beijing dumpling shop owner, 41-year-old Li Bo, built an AI skill for Jinguyuan that lets customers check menus, get recommendations, and join the queue via personal AI agents, making the shop a sym…