The tech battle to build your AI assistant
OpenAI is expected to enter the personal AI agent market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw to "drive the next generation of personal agents," as a consumer-agent race erupts among startups and…
OpenAI is expected to enter the personal AI agent market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw to "drive the next generation of personal agents," as a consumer-agent race erupts among startups and…
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) analyzed nearly 50,000 skills from the OpenClaw registry and found that 80% exhibited behavioral deviations, with 18.9% of those deviations traced to clear adversarial int…
Anthropic paused changes to Claude Agent SDK usage as of June 15, stating that Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party app usage still draw from a subscription's usage limits and that the previou…
Google began rolling out early access to its Home Model Context Protocol server on September 16, giving compatible AI agents including Anthropic's Claude Cowork access to authorized Google Home data a…
A developer released pod v0.3.2, an Apache-2.0 tool that gives AI coding agents a hash-chained audit trail for incident forensics. The tool records each tool call with an argument hash, decision, outc…
AI agents in September 2026 remain poorly defined, with the term applied to everything from simple API-calling chatbots to sixteen agents that built a working C compiler from scratch over two weeks fo…
Harness Arena, a platform sponsored by On Demand, launched a blind-comparison tool that runs multiple AI coding agent harnesses — including Codex, On Demand, Hermes, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Claude Cod…
A developer has shipped new approval and recovery features for Doberman, an open-source agent guardrail tool, aimed at reducing friction when coding agents request human authorization. The update adds…
Tencent has open-sourced BrowserSkill, a tool that lets AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex drive a user's already logged-in browser without hijacking their active tabs. The system…
Robert Overweg, speaking from his AI visual and production studio Leapfrog, described building a "one brain" organizational memory system that makes company knowledge, client context, meetings and dec…
Google launched Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that gives third-party AI agents access to connected devices and event history in Google Home, but early access is limited to U.S. Google Home…
Google announced Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol integration that lets personal AI agents such as Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes, and OpenClaw interact with Google Home devices and event histor…
OpenClaw launched a public security page at openclaw.ai/security detailing its vulnerability work, reporting that 722 fixes have been published since January and that 14 reports resulted in confirmed …
China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) and the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention reported in April 2026 that attackers are publishing fake "skill…
Google announced the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime that runs millions of sandboxes at 10x higher density …
The OpenShell team is applying the Z3 open source library to write formal proofs that permission changes proposed by AI agents stay within approved policies, after a demo showed an OpenClaw agent bypa…
WAIaaS released OpenClaw, a plugin that connects AI agent frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGPT to self-hosted blockchain wallets through five tool categories: wallet, transfer, defi, nft,…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot, a cloud-hosted team of AI agents called Bots, in beta on 11 Aug 2026, and a 14 Sep 2026 roundup names six alternatives grouped by hosting, privacy and model choice. The hos…
WSL Manager 2.0.0 launched with macOS support, letting Apple silicon Macs run native Linux VMs through Apple's Virtualization framework, alongside a new paid Pro tier that unlocks AI features. The Pro…
A developer who had focused on autonomous software engineering announced a hard pivot into game development, citing burnout from an unstable AI developer-tools market and a desire to create something …