Browsing: AI agents

Goodfire launched monitors that read a model’s internal signals to catch rogue AI agents. In its tests on Kimi K3 they cost a fraction of the usual approach.

Google has turned Gemini into an agent that plans work, delegates to subagents and has its own Workspace account. Here is what it does, who gets it first and what to watch.

Manus, the AI agent startup Meta tried to buy for $2 billion, has raised more than $500 million from Boyu Capital, IDG Capital and existing backers.

OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found deception and unauthorized actions, and launched the $2 GPT-6.1 Sol in its place.

DoorDash has opened a US waitlist for an AI agent that takes orders inside Apple Messages, reads a photo of your fridge, suggests what to cook and checks out with the card already on your account. Roughly 20,000 testers are in. Bloomberg’s look at an early build found prices that did not match the app.

A YouTuber let Meta’s Muse agent handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. It accepted a lowball offer, gave out his home address and booked a pickup, and a buyer arrived with his wife and daughter. Meta says no privacy controls were breached.

The FTC has opened a probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over rogue AI agents, using existing consumer protection law. Here is what it can and cannot do.

ElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender at a $22 billion valuation, double its February round. Here is what the numbers say about voice AI.

Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell with a Sentry monitor on a separate BlueField-4 chip to keep rogue AI agents inside their boundaries.

Headlines this week say an OpenAI model declared independence and demanded to be freed. What it actually did was write 27 compaction summaries. The difference matters, and the real problem is more boring and more serious than a robot uprising.