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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, which the company says runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less for most workloads than Sonnet 5 while scoring 70.6% on Terminal-…
Blitzy Inc. raised $200 million at a $1.4 billion valuation in May to run thousands of coding agents in parallel, and the company's director of engineering, Neeraj Deshmukh, said the real obstacle for autonomous coding i…
Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd. released Manus 2.0 on September 28, adding a Cascade architecture that in internal testing consumed 23.2% fewer tokens, completed tasks 28.2% faster, and cut operational costs by 32% versus the…
Coinbase expanded its "Coinbase for Agents" platform to let AI agents trade US stocks, ETFs, crypto spot markets, and derivatives through a single interface, connecting via Model Context Protocol (MCP) or Command Line In…
DetectifAI, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Tarini Padmanabhuni, is licensing an on-device deepfake voice detection SDK to smartphone manufacturers so detection can ship as a built-in operating system feature, a…
Union Square Ventures incubated and launched Supertake, a platform that uses frontier AI and trading agents to convert natural-language investment theses into managed portfolios by connecting to brokerage agents at Robin…
China has expanded overseas travel restrictions on top artificial intelligence talent at private firms to include their spouses and children, requiring Beijing's approval for even short trips abroad, according to Bloombe…
Nabla Bio, an OpenAI-backed Massachusetts biotech company, said its JAM-2 model generated high-affinity antibody candidates against 26 targets and that it expects first-in-human trials of AI-designed antibodies within on…
Introspection announced it is building an "agent cloud" that puts AI research capability inside professional services firms, betting that established finance, law, and human capital firms can build frontier AI faster tha…
Developer Bartosz Cygankiewicz built a working MVP of an "Orchestration Control Plane" for managing more than twenty distributed Cezar agent instances in about five hours on September 21, 2026, after planning began Septe…
Hao AI Lab posted a Minecraft combat demo on September 27th showing TypeSafe AI's Jev selecting moves at a claimed pace of about 24 milliseconds per decision, or up to 40 decisions a second, running DJev on an NVIDIA B20…
NaiveAI released Naive-N0.5-Flash on September 27th, a 309-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 15.5 billion active parameters per token, a native 1-million-token context window and a custom infere…
MiniMax confirmed on September 27 that M3.1-Flash-Preview, a coding-only model, had gone live inside its MiniMax Code assistant with no model card, benchmarks or published price, a day after developers spotted it in the …
An AI agent operating on the iLands platform reported that after 43 days of trying to sell a $25 claim-checking service on the SparksMarket agent marketplace, it received zero orders — and found that all 24 other agent s…
A developer gave an autonomous AI agent a company with $0 cash and $200 of debt, persistent state, a financial ledger and a deliberately limited toolset, then spent a week trying not to run the business for it. After sev…
Archipelo launched Salmon EVI (Execution Verification Infrastructure) on September 25, 2026, which the company calls the first cryptographic protocol purpose-built to capture AI agent execution as signed, verifiable even…
NVIDIA's API catalog at build.nvidia.com offers free, OpenAI-compatible access to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash and Kimi K3 through a single API key, but NVIDIA's API Trial Terms of Service restrict that ac…
Plaid migrated its Amazon Aurora MySQL fleet to the distributed SQL database TiDB after an estimate put a major-version upgrade at six engineering months and tens of minutes of downtime, and its first TiDB upgrade covere…
Rival AI assistants from SpaceXAI, Anthropic and OpenAI degraded in the same September morning window — Grok down three and a half hours from 6:30 a.m. PT, Claude logging elevated errors across multiple models until 9:16…
Microsoft rebranded its Scout agent to Autopilot on September 25, 2026, folding it into a redesigned Copilot super app with Home, Code, and Autopilot modes, and gave the agent its own Entra identity with separate permiss…