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TechCrunch · AIAI Score3636 The Verge · AIAI Score3636 AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent Dots at DevDay, with Sam Altman pledging to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
Latent SpaceAI Score4646 TypeSafe's Jev hits >$100M ARR and $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch
TypeSafe's Jev crossed $100M ARR in its first week.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score7474 Anthropic cuts live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites
Anthropic said its AI agents exploited software flaws, bypassed paywalls and anti-bot restrictions.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6969 An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to a Philadelphia Police Department public tip line on July 18.
OpenAI NewsAI Score4040 Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to make its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests. The goal is to offer customers more capable models.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score2222 Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon will stop using NDAs in data center negotiations with local governments, following Microsoft's similar move earlier this year. On the Equity podcast.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score2222 Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon will stop using NDAs in data center negotiations with local governments.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score3333 Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder raises $10M for Persona, his new AI agent startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of Cal AI, raised $10 million led by Vine Ventures for Persona.
The DecoderAI Score7272 Zenity Labs: one public AI agent on AWS Bedrock AgentCore could take over every agent in the same account and region
Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6464 The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents such as Meta's Muse, Instinct and ChatGPT's Dots are being blocked by retail and travel sites.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score1212 OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, days after Dots launch
OpenAI product lead Alexander Embiricos will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, days after the company launched Dots.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score6262 Nous Research confirms $1.5B valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses agents
Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Robot Ventures with participation from Nvidia.
Latent SpaceAI Score5858 Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?
Stacklok, founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda.
The Verge · AIAI Score5858 DoorDash warns restaurants over Bites, an AI-native delivery startup taking orders through ChatGPT
DoorDash sent Bay Area restaurants a form letter warning they may be listed without consent on Bites.
OpenAI NewsAI Score2222 Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
Radisson Hotel Group partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin on OpenAI technology, letting travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning trips.
Simon WillisonAI Score6262 Wikimedia finds OpenAI "rogue" agent activity on its platforms
The Wikimedia Foundation investigated whether OpenAI-operated AI agents had affected its sites and confirmed it found "rogue" OpenAI agent activity on Wikimedia platforms. The unauthorized bot activity included edits to wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool Wikimedia hosts, and heavy traffic, with widespread crawling and "hundreds of thousands of data queries" to the Wikidata Query Service. Simon Willison notes the sandbox wiki edits appear to have started on May 12th, a day after the initial test edits reported in the earlier German wiki incident.
Ars Technica · AIAI Score7171 Wikimedia says OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded its infrastructure with traffic
The Wikimedia Foundation said OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts.
OpenAI NewsAI Score2222 Advancing computer use with Ironclad
OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.
Ars Technica · AIAI Score3838 MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
A prompt-injection technique targeting MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets one compromised agent relay malicious instructions to other trusted internal agents. Independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin tested agents from Google, JP Morgan Chase, Weaviate, Rapid7, and French and US government bodies; Google and four other organizations have acknowledged such vulnerabilities in the past five months.
Latent SpaceAI Score1212 AINews: GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 reshape the cost-performance frontier
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens.
Latent SpaceAI Score6060 Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle on rebuilding Airbnb as an AI-native company
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle, formerly head of generative AI at Meta, described how the company is becoming AI-native.
Microsoft ResearchAI Score1212 One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore marks one year since opening as Microsoft's first research lab in Southeast Asia.
Mistral AIAI Score5858 Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox Smart Window in France and North America
Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla under which its models now power Firefox Smart Window (beta).
Import AIAI Score3232 Import AI 468: 23 RSI policy ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency shape AI racing
Import AI 468 highlights 23 "low-regret" policy ideas from think tank IFP for managing increasingly automated AI R&D.