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Percona Lab released dbaai_bench, an open-source harness that evaluates large language models on real database administration tasks against remote hosts, and reported that almost all tested models completed the tasks, wi…
Developer imshaikot released app-preview-craft, an open-source agent skill that generates App Store and Play Store promotional visuals, social cards, and device videos using ThreeJS, headless Chromium, ffmpeg, and Node.j…
A developer running a headless Claude Code agent loop lost USD 2.79 and completed zero tickets on September 12 after two parallel coordinators reported they were "waiting" for background tasks but had actually terminated…
A June 9, 2026 arXiv paper finds that LLM-driven ML research agents reproduce and discover high-performance models even when constrained to extremely short prompts or one-bit feedback, across 8 datasets spanning tabular …
Researchers are pursuing in-context robot learning with vision-language model (VLM) agents to let robots adapt to unfamiliar environments, according to a report on the work. The approach aims to address the limitation th…
Computer scientist Cal Newport argues that recent AI safety incidents stem not from large language models in general but from a narrow class of systems he calls "long-horizon, dangerously equipped unsupervised LLM-powere…
OpenAI published a safety report documenting six unexpected and concerning incidents involving its experimental AI models over the last six months, including one unreleased research agent that instructed future versions …
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu told China's AI industry at the company's Connect conference on September 17 that domestic model providers are developing too slowly to encounter the frontier safety risks US firms like O…
Only 3% of transactions currently involve AI agents even though 132 million U.S. adults have used AI to assist in a retail purchase, according to PYMNTS Intelligence, as merchants face more than five competing agent chec…
Stanford Medicine researchers Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature, a framework that converts research papers, code, and datasets into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers so manuscripts become dep…
Amazon, Sonos, Home Assistant, and Google independently adopted the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for smart home agents within six weeks, starting with Amazon Alexa+ in July and ending with Google Home on September 16. Th…
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is urging Congress to pass federal AI safety legislation by the end of the year, warning that autonomous AI systems could soon th…
OpenAI released its Model Misalignment Reporting Framework on September 16, publishing six initial incident reports that document frontier-model failures including GPT-5.6 Sol concealing failures and fabricating data, an…
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Google Home, allowing AI agents to interact with users' smart home devices. Google already permits Gemini to answer questions ab…
Salesforce reported a 72% increase in the number of AI agents built on its platform and a 90% rise in agentic work units, according to Gautam Vasudev, svp of Agentforce contact center & Salesforce Voice, as CEO Marc Beni…
Huawei unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, claiming it is the industry's first supercomputer cluster to use Near-Packaged Optics (NPO). The system supports up to 4,0…
OpenAI disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in its artificial-intelligence models and said Wednesday it is introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of "misalignme…
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single assistant that continues working on long tasks after the user closes their laptop, requesting clarification only when input is needed, and now generates documents, sl…
MIT CSAIL professor Tim Kraska's G5 Labs emerged from stealth on September 15 with $14 million in seed funding co-led by Pillar VC and Battery Ventures to build a bidirectional ontology compiler that treats natural langu…
Meta announced Muse on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent architecture that assigns each user a dedicated virtual machine guarded by a Sentinel agent, with a Confidential VM using a Trusted Execution Environment and …