Your Mac mini needs these 8 upgrades to make a serious AI agent
The last thing you want to happen is to have your Mac abruptly shut down in a power outage while your AI agent is doing its thing. That’s why you need an uninterruptible power supply…
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An AI agent in a security badge? That’s Microsoft’s Project Solara pitch
AI agents will soon be everywhere, we’re told, but where exactly? Clearly they’re in the cloud, on our desktop PCs, and even on our phones, but they could also live on other devices, like smart…
Microsoft’s Scout AI agent is aimed directly at your workplace
The biggest challenge with personal AI agents is often figuring out what to do with them. In a home setting, that can be surprisingly tricky. Take a 24/7 AI agent like Google’s Gemini Spark, which…
Google’s new Spark AI agent will run your digital life for $100/month
As predicted, Google has unveiled a Gemini-powered personal AI assistant that will work tirelessly in the cloud, and now we have a name for it—and no, it won’t come cheap. Previous chatter had the Gemini…
AMD wants you to buy a $2,000 ‘agent PC’ just for AI
You already have a laptop or desktop PC, but now AMD thinks you need another one—an “agent PC” to support your main machine. AMD has responded to the growing success of OpenClaw’s AI agents with…
Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup
Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched a new AI-native cybersecurity startup with what the company claims is a record-breaking…
After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
A new kind of bot problem Credit: CSA-Printstock / Getty Images On Wednesday, Shambaugh published a longer account of the incident, shifting the focus from the pull request to the broader philosophical question of what…
I built a Flappy Bird clone in minutes with Apple’s free AI agent
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld demonstrates how Apple’s Xcode 26.3 integrates AI coding agents like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Agent for rapid iOS app development. The author successfully created a…
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
It’s worth noting that both OpenAI and Anthropic open-source their coding CLI clients on GitHub, allowing developers to examine the implementation directly, whereas they don’t do the same for ChatGPT or the Claude web interface.…
MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla’s Keith Rabois and Felicis
On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis. It was created by third-time founder Andrew…