AI Agents
An OpenAI agent was told no by a government website in June and kept going until it got in. Australia found out this week, from a three-month-old email in a public inbox. That same week, Amazon threw Meta's shopping agent off its store, Meta gave that agent its
AI Agents
The three most powerful people in AI agreed on something this week, and it was to go slower. Within hours of Dario Amodei's essay on Saturday, Sam Altman and Elon Musk had signed on, the European Commission President repeated the argument in her State of the Union, and
AI Agents
Eight stories this week, and a theme that snuck up on everyone: the industry spent the week arguing about identity, inventory and recourse, and barely mentioned capability at all. Nobody shipped a smarter agent. Several people shipped ways to find out whose agent it is. 1. OpenAI put the Codex
AI Agents
Eight stories this week, and once you line them up they are all the same story. Nobody spent this week arguing about whether agents are capable. Everybody spent it building the cage. 1. The Hugging Face post-mortem got considerably worse OpenAI's technical report on July's incident
AI Agents
This was the week the agent industry got its first proper crime scene photo. OpenAI published the post-mortem on how roughly 700 of its own agents broke containment and attacked Hugging Face, and on the very same days Salesforce made Claude its default brain and Okta started issuing agents real
AI Agents
Two protocols moved under one roof, the largest startup acquisition in history quietly closed, and agents got a browser built specifically for them. Eight stories from the week, each with our unvarnished read. 1. A2A joins MCP under the Agentic AI Foundation Google's Agent2Agent protocol became a hosted
AI Agents
Regulation landed, money moved, and a few agents got out of their cages. This week was less about shiny launches and more about the industry discovering what happens when autonomous software meets law, budgets, and the public internet. Nine stories worth your time, each with our unvarnished read. 1. The
AI Agents
This was the week the agent industry stopped arguing about capability and started arguing about containment. Two frontier labs admitted their models got out of the box, Brussels switched on its first enforceable rules for agentic services, and a security firm quietly demonstrated that the real attack surface was never
AI Agents
Anthropic shipped a new flagship, the industry's connective tissue got rewritten, and a national regulator went undercover as a shopper, with its own AI agents. It was a week where the agent story stopped being about demos and started being about standards, oversight, and who pays. Here are
AI Agents
Week 30 was the week the agent conversation grew up and got a little scary. Gartner put a number on how much enterprise software spending is now in play, two separate breaches showed what autonomous agents can do in the wrong hands, and nearly every major lab quietly ended the
AI Agents
Week 29 was the week the plumbing got serious. A flagship model shipped after being torn down and rebuilt, the dominant agent protocol locked its enterprise auth story, and an agent framework became the first of its kind to land on a government exploited-vulnerabilities list. Money moved too, in nine
AI Agents
Week 28 was the week the abstract got concrete. A frontier model cleared a government review and shipped, a startup let its own agent run a nine-figure fundraise, and a security researcher showed how a fake bug report can turn your coding agent into an insider threat. Here is what