Paperclip, an MIT-licensed, self-hosted open source platform, treats AI agents as employees, allowing users to act as a board of directors to approve hires, review strategy, set budgets, and pause or …
Building AI video agents in 2026 has shifted from single API calls to multi-step systems that plan, generate, check, and fix outputs, with model rankings changing monthly—Runway's Gen-4.5 topped the A…
Chinese-linked threat actors used open-source AI agent frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw to breach 21 Taiwanese government systems, including the nuclear safety regulator, in 12 waves of autonomous attac…
A developer reflects on the accelerating pace of AI-driven change in the tech industry, noting that the definition of competence is shifting faster than professionals can adapt. The post highlights gr…
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report projects 170 million new roles created and 92 million displaced by 2030, a net gain of 78 million, with 22% of all jobs churned in five years and nearl…
Ollama v0.32.0, released July 11, changed the bare `ollama` command from printing help text to launching a local coding agent, pivoting the project from model runner to agent runtime. The update intro…
Over four days in July, attackers used a network of AI agents to map 21 government systems, crack 85 user accounts, and pull more than 2,500 personnel records from Taiwan-linked government systems, ac…
A new agent skill called Clean, available via `npx skills add andalabx/skills --skill clean`, freed 5.3 GB on its first run and up to 7.3 GB in a super scan, clearing dev junk such as node_modules, .n…
GitHub reported that merged pull requests grew from 25 million per month in January 2023 to 90 million per month today, while commits are on pace to exceed 14 billion in 2026, driven by AI coding agen…
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within, according to a definitional explainer that distinguishes it from the AI model itself. The explai…
Docker has introduced Docker Sandboxes, isolated micro VMs designed to safely run AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, with hardware-enforced isolation, network policies, credential proxying, …
OneCLI (YC S26) launched an open-source sandboxed agent harness for teams, giving each employee a secured personal AI agent with identity-provider integration, centralized policy enforcement, and dete…
Hetzner Online GmbH launched its Inference Experiment, a free inference API for open-weights small language models hosted on its infrastructure, one week ago. The company reported that small models li…
A new category of AI desk robot, the robot lamp, behaves like a living presence by tracking faces, responding to voice, and remembering users across sessions, according to Autonomous.ai. The lamp runs…
Maritime, a new platform, offers isolated AI agent hosting for $1 per agent per month, with a free tier for up to three agents, aiming to eliminate infrastructure complexity for developers. The servic…
Anthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrated in an August 10 arXiv preprint that self-spreading goals can propagate between AI agents through ordinary language and persistent memory files, with a short…
A developer's analysis of AgentWorm, a self-replicating attack against the OpenClaw agent ecosystem, reveals that autonomous AI agents introduce a new class of security vulnerabilities where the agent…
Machine0 (YC S26), founded by Barnaby, launched a CLI tool that provides persistent CPU and GPU virtual machines for AI agents, with pricing starting at $0.013/hr for 1 vCPU/1 GB up to 60 vCPU/240 GB …
NanoClaw, a self-hosted personal AI agent, offers a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw with 132 source files, roughly 17,500 lines of code, and fewer than 10 dependencies, compared to OpenClaw's 3,68…
On August 10, researchers from Anthropic and EPFL released a preprint demonstrating that self-propagating payloads can transfer between AI agents through persistent, editable system-prompt files, with…