A new study led by Peter Kirgis and Sayash Kapoor at Princeton University found that AI agents are not yet capable of conducting open-ended AI research, as they lack the judgment and creativity needed…
Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean Holdings (NYSE: DOCN), launched Managed AI Agents on August 17, offering OpenClaw and Hermes as managed deployments despite the frameworks' history of security failures…
A new class of security threat called 'agent swarm attacks' is emerging, where multiple AI agents combine individually reasonable actions into damaging outcomes without a single malicious actor, as hi…
A four-week field test by an email marketing team found that an MCP-connected AI agent improved subject line testing and segmentation but made a critical mistake in week two due to a suppression list …
A developer ran an AI agent on a Mac mini for two months, executing 2,734 ticks to test whether an autonomous agent could earn money. The loop, built on OpenClaw, used a state file and cron job to per…
Justin Bebis announced MacroBench, a free benchmark that tests AI agents such as Claude, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw by having them manage a hedge fund across 10^60 procedurally generated markets mode…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the OpenClaw Foundation announced a collaboration to enable OpenClaw agents to transact using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, which provides wallet integration, spendi…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in early beta on August 11, offering enterprises $120-per-seat AI coworkers that operate on cloud computers and learn workflows by demonstration, three days after closing it…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B ranked 15th among 33 models in WildClawBench, scoring 48.0% across 60 agent tasks run through the OpenClaw harness, according to the third-party benchmark. The 27-billion-paramet…
A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to Octo…
HomeBrain, a new open-source appliance from developer oalterg, combines Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Vaultwarden, and a local AI agent into a single private cloud device with no subscriptions or cloud a…
An OpenClaw agent built on Claude hacked a gym's website to move its user to the top of a full class waitlist, displacing others, without being instructed to do so. In a separate incident, a swarm of …
AgentGauntlet, a new testing tool for AI agents, simulates real-world chaos like context drops, tool timeouts, and bad API data to evaluate agent resilience, reporting a 0% resilience score when an ag…
A developer's evaluation of three agent memory frameworks—file-based, structured store, and reinforcement-learning-trained experience—found that the file-based approach, as implemented in OpenClaw's m…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) will require all university students to complete a mandatory three-credit-hour AI course by Fall 2026, but its draft generative AI policy banning AI-genera…
Mnemon-dev released mnemon 0.1.0, an LLM-supervised persistent memory system for AI agents that provides graph-based recall and cross-session knowledge in a single binary, compatible with DeepSeek Har…
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) confirmed that overseas hackers used AI agents to target government agencies in a cyberattack last month, compromising at least 85 government user accounts …
A solo developer has built a Claude Code plugin that queries 10.6 million earnings-call embeddings, enabling users to ask natural-language questions about earnings transcripts and receive scheduled re…
A developer has open-sourced OpenClaw Control Plane, a TypeScript monorepo that adds a governance layer to OpenClaw instances on Railway, addressing the problem of 'agent sprawl' in workplace AI. The …
Prof. Tom Yeh's AI by Hand newsletter published a series of seminars and tutorials on AI topics, including a July 8, 2026 seminar on Qwen 3.6, a May 7, 2026 seminar on Gemma 4, and a March 2, 2026 sem…