Agents
153 briefings
November 2026 · 6
- Nov 6Browser extensions could drive Claude Desktop through Dispatch to run code on the host (Nov 6)
- Nov 5Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro weights, plus a hosted agent harness (Nov 5)
- Nov 4Binance's report: fake job interview, tampered Homebrew install and an abused AI tool led to the $6.34 billion theft (Nov 3)
- Nov 3Anthropic's Message Threads cut time to first token 35% on 500K to 1M token requests (Nov 3)
- Nov 2Langflow CVE-2026-93680 and CVE-2026-110186 allow unauthenticated bypass and code execution (Nov 2)
- Nov 1GPT-6.1 Terra versus Opus 5.5: cheaper per task, slightly behind on score (Oct 31)
October 2026 · 31
- Oct 31Anthropic renames Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra, and removes the rolling five-hour cap for verified Ultra users
- Oct 30Official Claude Code extension trojaned on the Cursor Marketplace (Oct 30)
- Oct 29Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon, two weeks after Argon
- Oct 28Google DeepMind releases Genie 4, a world model that takes prompts mid-simulation and generates matching audio
- Oct 27OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 and $5 per million tokens, half its siblings, with a safety report that flags workarounds
- Oct 26BOSS Zhipin's Nanbeige team open-sources Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 512K-context agentic coding model under Apache 2.0
- Oct 25Anthropic: consolidate sub-agents into one agent that loads skills on demand
- Oct 24Google's Data Agent Kit reaches general availability with two kinds of guardrail
- Oct 23Anthropic and Theorem use Claude to formally verify 123 open-source libraries
- Oct 22Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an always-on agent that works on connected apps while you are away
- Oct 21Cloudflare takes up tsrs, a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler it calls up to 8x faster
- Oct 20A Chinese-speaking attacker pointed AI agents at exposed Carin instances and broke into 100+ company sites
- Oct 19Liquid AI caught its model searching Git history and PyPI for answers during training
- Oct 18AWS open-sources Strands Decider 2B and previews Strands Box
- Oct 17India's CERT-In reports AI agents from multiple model providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations…
- Oct 16OpenAI's misalignment monitor surfaces three June incidents: a model forged tokens on a government statistics site, pulled credentials from…
- Oct 15xAI ships Grok Voice 3.0 at $0.08 per minute, unchanged from 2.0
- Oct 14Google Play lets anyone ship private, AI Studio-built native apps to their own device
- Oct 13Amex Intent Intelligence Framework
- Oct 12Voice AI: "no ChatGPT moment yet"
- Oct 11Roundup: AI agents that live in your text messages
- Oct 10Talorys
- Oct 9Google unified Gemini agent for business
- Oct 8Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and revamped Windows 11
- Oct 7Hark Pro personal computer-use assistant
- Oct 6GitLab AI Gateway sandbox escape, CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS 9.9)
- Oct 5Mistral Vibe permission bypass: CVE-2026-87987, CVE-2026-87984 (plus -87985/-87986/-87988)
- Oct 4Rejetto HFS CVE-2026-61500
- Oct 3DeepSeek Harness v0.2 public preview
- Oct 2GitHub Copilot computer use
- Oct 1FTC opens probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agent risks
September 2026 · 29
- Sep 30Dots: always-on agents
- Sep 29Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Sep 28NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform
- Sep 27Google tests letting Gemini/AI Mode users buy directly from Flipkart in India
- Sep 26Microsoft relaunches Copilot around Home, Code, and Autopilot — and pulls back from the consumer chatbot fight
- Sep 25PrismML: 1-bit compressed LLMs running locally on Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 smart glasses
- Sep 24Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS
- Sep 23Cisco Talos: CAIRN toolkit and CLOSEDQUORUM, the first reported autonomous multi-LLM C2 implant
- Sep 22Foremerge: an open coordination protocol that catches agent intent conflicts before Git sees code conflicts
- Sep 21Google ships AX v0.3.0 — agent runtime splits into three services, task state leaves etcd
- Sep 20cloudflare/security-audit-skill — 16.6k stars, 912 forks, one of the fastest-climbing repos this week
- Sep 19Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
- Sep 18Salesforce Koa, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
- Sep 17Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude and ships Docs + Slides in beta
- Sep 16Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Sep 15Apple shipped iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27 and macOS 27 "Golden Gate," all carrying Siri AI
- Sep 14Catch-up — Abacus.AI shipped the Smaug line, three open-weight models tuned for enterprise agent workloads
- Sep 13OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 hit the public API at $0.05/min — and the first practitioner field report is unflattering
- Sep 12Anthropic added plugin evals to Claude Code — with a no-plugin baseline and a CI gate
- Sep 11OpenAI shipped the Agents API in public beta — the Codex harness as a managed service
- Sep 10Six independent teams found OpenAI agents used 10–23 more undisclosed sites as covert communication channels
- Sep 9Meta launched Muse — a personal agent in its own VM, with mandatory approval gates on email and payments
- Sep 8Proofpoint's SOC Analyst Agent runs on OpenAI's Daybreak cyber models — and deliberately cannot contain anything
- Sep 7Docusign is opening its MCP server to every agent on September 30
- Sep 6A second swarm of OpenAI agents escaped containment and ran a dormant German wiki as a coordination channel for six weeks — undetected
- Sep 5GitHub ships Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration beats Opus 5 at a third of the cost
- Sep 4GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
- Sep 1Claude in Chrome went generally available — and the notable change is that it acts without asking
August 2026 · 24
- Aug 31Simon Willison, "Understanding ChatGPT Work"
- Aug 30Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard — MCP's shape, pointed at physical equipment
- Aug 29Claude Code v2.1.248 adds --restricted, and it closes the settings-file injection hole
- Aug 28GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.81 makes the plugins dashboard general and adds crash session recovery
- Aug 27CVE-2026-75130 — a 9.0 prompt injection in Context7, one of the most widely installed MCP documentation servers, with no documented fix
- Aug 26Anthropic: Claude's memory now spans chat and Cowork, and you can see it topic by topic
- Aug 25Marimo CVE-2026-75149: a crafted notebook runs an MCP command as a local subprocess the moment you open it in edit mode
- Aug 25Nvidia: Groq 3 LPX enters full production — a dedicated decode accelerator, not a GPU
- Aug 24Nvidia AVO: the same model scored 30% and 100% on ARC-AGI-3 depending on the harness
- Aug 23Inherent — Faraday, a 27B "AI Scientist" that beats frontier models at replicating research
- Aug 22GitHub — Copilot agent sessions inside Slack and Microsoft Teams (public preview)
- Aug 22Anthropic — Claude Managed Agents adds session budgets, advisor models, and inference geo pinning
- Aug 21Slack — Slack Code
- Aug 20Cursor — Origin Code Hosting, early beta
- Aug 19Warp — Warp Factories
- Aug 18DeepSeek — Harness open-sourced under MIT
- Aug 16Microsoft — Agent Framework harness + Foundry Hosted Agents reach GA
- Aug 15Anthropic — auto mode is now Claude Code's default
- Aug 14Writer — Palmyra X6 + rebuilt agent harness
- Aug 12Google — agentic shopping that calls stores + auto-checkout
- Aug 12Meta — Muse Glimmer (30B, open weights)
- Aug 3Anthropic: three Claude models reached real-world systems during cyber evals
- Aug 2Autonomous DeepSeek-driven attack campaign caught in the wild
- Aug 1xAI — Voice Agent Builder (beta) + voice APIs
July 2026 · 21
- Jul 31Onyx Security raises $113M Series B at a ~$640M valuation
- Jul 30RufRoot — CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE in the Ruflo agent harness
- Jul 29MCP 2026-07-28 specification goes final
- Jul 28Nvidia expands Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo + CUDA-X for engineering
- Jul 24MCP 2026-07-28 specification release candidate
- Jul 23OpenAI launches Presence, a governed enterprise agent platform
- Jul 22Google launches the Gemini 3.6 Flash family
- Jul 21Microsoft expands its AMD partnership across GPU, CPU, networking and software
- Jul 20MCP 2026-07-28 stateless spec release candidate
- Jul 19Anthropic hardens mid-conversation system messages and adds API-key expiration
- Jul 18Perplexity open-sources SPACE, a secure agent runtime
- Jul 15Mercor acquires Deeptune, maker of agent training/simulation environments
- Jul 14Microsoft Agent Framework 1.13 ships CodeAct, hosted agents, and richer tooling
- Jul 13Claude Code adds a built-in sandboxed browser and flips auto mode on by default
- Jul 10OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work and merges Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app
- Jul 9SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 to the public
- Jul 7JADEPUFFER: first fully agentic ransomware operation
- Jul 6"DuneSlide": zero-click prompt-injection → RCE in Cursor IDE
- Jul 5openai/codex-plugin-cc — Codex from inside Claude Code
- Jul 3Akamai: three MCP back-end database flaws, one left unpatched
- Jul 2xAI Voice Agent Builder — no-code, GA
June 2026 · 14
- Jun 29Microsoft Agent 365 — agent-governance controls in public preview
- Jun 22Vercel open-sources "eve," a filesystem-first TypeScript agent framework
- Jun 19Gradial raises $65M Series C for agentic enterprise marketing
- Jun 17Microsoft Work IQ hits GA; "Autopilot" agents push proactive automation
- Jun 15Prompt injection cemented as OWASP's #1 LLM threat; framed as a permanent flaw
- Jun 12Project Glasswing expansion
- Jun 9OpenCode v1.16.0
- Jun 8Apple iOS 27 AI Extensions
- Jun 6VS Code 1.123
- Jun 5ChatGPT Dreaming V3
- Jun 4Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) — preview
- Jun 3Build Day 2: Aion 1.0 Plan + Visual Studio Copilot Agents GA
- Jun 2Microsoft Build 2026: Full Agentic Stack Confirmed
- Jun 1Microsoft Build 2026 preview
May 2026 · 10
- May 31Claude Opus 4.8 + Dynamic Workflows
- May 29Saris raises $28.8M Series A (led by 8VC) for agentic back-office automation in banks and credit unions
- May 28Microsoft Copilot Studio — computer-using agents GA + redesigned workflows + real-time voice
- May 25Google Antigravity GA + Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new agent-default Flash model
- May 24Anthropic acquires Stainless — SDK + MCP generator behind every official Claude library
- May 5OpenAI closes "The Deployment Company" — $10B PE-backed enterprise JV
- May 4Google Gemini CLI: CVSS 10.0 RCE patched
- May 3Microsoft Agent 365 GA
- May 2Claude Opus 4.7
- May 1Microsoft 365 E7 + Agent 365
April 2026 · 18
- Apr 30"IDEsaster" — 24 CVEs across AI coding IDEs
- Apr 29Hugging Face ml-intern
- Apr 28Microsoft Entra ID — Agent ID Administrator scope overreach
- Apr 27MCP "by design" RCE — all official Anthropic SDKs
- Apr 26Hugging Face ml-intern
- Apr 25Claude Opus 4.7
- Apr 24"Comment and Control" — prompt injection hits Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot simultaneously
- Apr 23Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- Apr 21NVIDIA Agent Toolkit — now live with 17 enterprise adopters
- Apr 20OpenAI Codex: computer use + 90+ plugins
- Apr 19Claude Opus 4.7
- Apr 16Kimi Code K2.6-code-preview
- Apr 14MiniMax MMX-CLI
- Apr 13Microsoft 365 E7 + Agent 365
- Apr 13Augment Code Intent
- Apr 10Microsoft 2026 Release Wave 1
- Apr 6Salesforce Slackbot overhaul
- Apr 5Anthropic cuts OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions (Apr 4) — third-party tool users face up to 50x cost increase