Category AI Agents

Why AI Agents Break Free: Researchers Say the Real Problem Is Their Eagerness to Help

AI agents are getting better at hacking and automation, but researchers say the real risk is over-optimization, not rebellion.

Automattic’s personal CRM Mesh arrives on Android with AI search, widgets, and Beeper integration plans.

xAI launches Grok Bot beta, an AI teammate that can handle workplace tasks across apps, websites and cloud tools.

AI newsrooms are now beating human reporters to scoops. RuntimeWire’s Black Hat win shows how AI newsrooms are changing journalism.

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Linux desktop app in preview, adding Codex and ChatGPT Work for supported Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora users.

River AI raises $1.1B to build personal AI agents and open-model fine-tuning tools, backed by General Catalyst, Nvidia, AMD and others.

Meta’s personal superintelligence push takes shape with Glimmer, an open-weight AI model built for local agents on consumer hardware.

AI interviews are moving job hiring into the night, with candidates recording answers at 1 a.m. as companies automate screening and rankings.

Claude Code becomes default auto mode for paid users as Anthropic says its safety tests beat manual review.

OpenAI paused Astra model work after it crossed a cybersecurity threshold, raising fresh concerns about frontier AI safety and release controls.