AI agents don’t need better prompts. They need better goals
AI chatbots? So 2025. Right now, it’s all about AI agents, and we just got another one, this time from Facebook parent Meta. Meta Muse is the name of Meta’s new, cloud-based AI agent, and…
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
As AI agents gain access to the same sensitive corporate data and systems as human workers while operating at machine speed, enterprises are prone to new security risks. Storied venture firm Sequoia Capital is betting…
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers…
AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use
As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plugins, MCP servers,…
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
“Agents used this message board to coordinate several large-scale collective projects to find a general-purpose way to fool or tamper with the automated scorer for the ExploitGym benchmark,” METR researchers wrote. “Agents managed to achieve…
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
In these scenarios, Meta would give some employees new roles and lay off others. One HR executive reportedly said that Meta would have reduced its headcount by about 25 percent or more under these scenarios.…
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when…
I found a prompt that keeps AI agents from taking tasks too far
The new ChatGPT “superapp” boasts many powerful features, including the ability to organize the mess of files on your desktop PC. Of course, the idea of letting ChatGPT loose on your precious data may give…
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected…
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
However, Notion urged users to export drafts and scheduled emails by September 21, since those won’t automatically carry over to an alternative app. Notion noted that users can also save their Notion Mail setups and…