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Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false rea…
InfoQ released a free eMag titled 'Agentic AI Architecture' that explores how AI is reshaping software architecture, drawing parallels to the microservices revolution. The publication features articles from industry expe…
Mikhail Lomtadze, CEO of Kaspi.kz, unveiled Kasper, a personal AI assistant integrated into the Kaspi Shop, designed to help Kazakhstani customers make confident purchasing decisions by understanding needs, comparing pro…
Cisco launched an internal AI assistant in late 2023 to provide a secure alternative to consumer AI tools, consolidating multiple models into one platform. The assistant saves engineers six hours and other employees five…
AI red teaming and AI penetration testing are distinct adversarial practices that target different weaknesses in generative AI systems. AI penetration testing seeks defects in the surrounding infrastructure, such as APIs…
OpenAI fine-tuning team members Will Hang and Wenjie Zi presented on Agent RFT, a method to enhance agent performance through reinforcement learning. They discussed how agents interact with tools and the outside world, a…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable WebGL game with proce…
A senior engineer describes his current workflow with Claude Code, using a container jail for safety and a custom plugin for disciplined design-build-test cycles, arguing that the unit of work has shifted from keystrokes…
Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years—Kairos, NEST, and BlueDot—are spinouts from the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), suggesting that small independent teams may be better suited to h…
Intezer announced Custom Agents, a new capability that lets security teams build their own AI agents inside the Intezer platform to automate custom security tasks, addressing the need for more efficient threat handling a…
Google released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative UI that lets AI agents declare interface intent and render natively across platforms. The update shifts to a prompt-first schema, adds an Agent SDK,…
A new report from Writer reveals that 94% of executives face board pressure to do more with less, yet fewer than 1 in 4 report significant ROI from AI agents, as panic-driven AI adoption leads to 'AI theater' rather than…
Emre Sokullu released WebBrain, a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox that reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks, with the option to run entirely on a local model for privacy. The …
SAP is limiting hiring and travel spending to fund its AI transformation, shaking up executive ranks, and pushing customers toward cloud migrations with AI incentives. The company unveiled its "Autonomous Enterprise" vis…
The AI Engineer World's Fair concluded with a debate on the viability of autonomous software factories, pitting advocates like Geoffrey Huntley and Ian Livingstone against skeptics Dex Horthy and Greg Pstrucha. Anthropic…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's layoffs and restructuring to focus on AI agents have been ineffective, with AI development not accelerating as expected. The admission comes after Meta fired thousands…
Tyler Cowen predicts that declining fertility rates and the rise of AI will transform social interactions, making public spaces emptier and prompting humans to invest more in appearance and charisma to stand out. He sugg…
Microsoft launched the Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business focused on AI engineering, with a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts to co-design and deploy AI systems for customers. The company aims to help cus…
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services announced multibillion-dollar investments in Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) services, embedding thousands of AI experts directly into customer teams to help build and deploy AI systems.…
Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues that AI agents represent a new form of software distinct from traditional web applications, citing their dynamic interaction and unpredictable outputs. Qu led the development of …