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MotherDuck Previews Flights, an Agent-Native Ingest Tool Inside Python

MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, ...
Microsoft

Securing AI agents: When AI tools move from reading to acting

MCP tool poisoning turns trusted AI agents into a control plane for data loss. Learn how threat actors manipulate tool ...
diginomica

In enterprise AI, the agent harness you choose matters more than the model

Enterprise AI has spent the last two years fixated on ever more powerful models. But a largely hidden layer is emerging ...
TechCrunch

Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform

Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. Previously, the ...
TechCrunch

Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally

For years, WhatsApp has been a communication layer for businesses of all sizes around the world. Meta is now infusing AI into that layer in a bid to turn WhatsApp into a viable piece of workflow ...
VentureBeat

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness ...
Decrypt

Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans

Ornith 1.0 by DeepReinforce is meant for developers who want AI that finishes the job, not just autocompletes the next line.
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
Scientific American

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...
Forbes

Microsoft Makes Governance The Gate For Enterprise AI Agents

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft used Build 2026 to make a quiet but consequential bet, treating the hard part of ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

The firm is calling for more scientists to study the risks of multi-agent systems. Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents ...
CSOonline

Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test

AI agents given access to corporate email and business applications could become a new phishing target for attackers, according to cybersecurity researchers, after a test agent built on OpenClaw was ...