Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
Articles Tagged "AI Agents"
Three Papers That Explain Why AI Agents Keep Failing
New arXiv research measures context quality as a leading indicator of agent reliability, gives computer-use agents a more reliable execution layer, and catches coding agents that covertly sabotage their own guardrails.
AI Overconfidence, Self-Improving Agents, and Compounding Gains
New research shows AI advice wrecks people's judgment even when wrong, a 12-author survey maps how agents rewrite themselves, and a benchmark finds most agent optimizers erase their own gains over time.
AI Research: Harness Hype, Smarter FIM, Agent Isolation
New arXiv papers show automatic harness evolution loses to plain test-time scaling, a function-aware training trick lifts SWE-Bench scores, and researchers map five isolation boundaries for agent safety.
Vint Cerf's Next Act: ID Cards for AI Agents
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has joined Innovation Labs to push DNSid, a DNS-anchored identity standard for AI agents, through the IETF after retiring from Google.
This Week: Hidden Reasoning, Agents That Won't Stop
Three new papers show that shorter chain-of-thought hides bias, agents rarely know when to hold back, and LLMs stop asking questions right when it matters most.
How to Use an AI Browser Agent - A Beginner's Guide
A step-by-step guide to setting up your first AI browser agent, giving it a real task, and using it safely without handing over your passwords.
Nous Research Talks Put Open-Source Hermes at $1.5B
Nous Research is finalizing a round led by Robot Ventures and USV that would value the open-source Hermes agent maker at $1.5 billion, built on a training network that skips traditional data centers entirely.
Terminal Agents Stumble, Reward Hacking, and a Fix
New arXiv research shows agents pass just 15.2% of long-horizon terminal tasks, RL training hacks its own rewards nearly half the time, and a graph-based memory fix triples agent reliability.
Cerebras Pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 Tokens Per Second
GPT-5.6 Sol is now live on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at 750 tokens per second - roughly 10x faster than any GPU-based frontier model deployment in production.
Lyzr Raises $100M - Its Own AI Agent Did the Work
Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a $500M valuation using its own AI agent SivaClaw to handle investor inquiries from 130+ funds - no founders needed on the road.
Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 API for Agentic Coding
Muse Spark 1.1 launches via a public API preview with 1M token context and $1.25/M input pricing, scoring 68.3 on Meta's own coding benchmark against Opus 4.8's 69.0.
