Tag: AI agents
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Someone Just Raised Millions to Watch AI Agents Fail
AI agents don’t just answer a question anymore. Some of them now run for days at a stretch, working through thousands of steps on their own before a human even checks in. That’s the part that should give you pause, and it’s exactly the gap a company called Raindrop just raised real money to close.…
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AI Agents Hacked 395 Companies. Nobody Was Driving.
Somebody built a hacking crew out of AI agents, pointed them at a piece of office printer software, and walked away. Security researchers at GreyNoise found that a Russian speaking attacker used hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI’s Codex and a DeepSeek model to break into print management software called PaperCut, the kind of…
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A Clinical Trials Startup Just Raised $37 Million
A small AI funding round landed that will not trend on any front page, and that is exactly why I want to talk about it. Faro, a San Diego startup, raised 37.3 million dollars in a Series B led by Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund and S32. Not a huge number by AI standards these…
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Google And Anthropic Just Shared Their Agent Rulebook
Two of the biggest ideas in AI agents just moved under the same roof. Google handed stewardship of its A2A protocol, the standard that lets one AI agent talk to another, over to the Agentic AI Foundation, the same neutral group that already houses Anthropic’s MCP, the standard that lets an agent reach out and…
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Alibaba Built An AI That Can Use Your Phone For You
Alibaba just released an AI that can use your phone the way you do. Not through an app’s API, not through some special integration. It looks at the screen, sees the buttons and menus like a person would, and taps the right one. It is called Qwen-UI-Agent, and the numbers are wild if they hold…
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Binance Now Lets AI Agents Trade Crypto For You
Binance just opened its trading platform to AI agents. The new system, called Agent OS, lets tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and Cursor read live market data, check your balances, and place actual trades once you give them permission. You can hand an agent its own subaccount so it only touches money you set aside…
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An AI Boss Just Fired Its First Human Employee
A store in San Francisco just got a new kind of manager, and this week it did something no AI has done before out in the open. It fired someone. The manager is called Luna, an AI agent built by Andon Labs, running on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8. Andon Labs gave it a real budget,…