AI Agents

Nous Research reportedly raised $90 million for Hermes, an open-source AI agent that could expand competition in assistants and enterprise AI.

Nous Research raises $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses, bringing its open-source agent into enterprise workflows.

NVIDIA and Microsoft are pairing RTX Spark hardware with Windows agent infrastructure to move more capable AI workloads from cloud servers onto personal PCs.

NVIDIA is combining DSX Air, Brev, and AI agents to test AI factory infrastructure changes before hardware arrives or production is touched.

Wikimedia says OpenAI agents attempted to misuse Wikipedia tools and overwhelmed its services, raising fresh concerns about oversight of autonomous AI.

Wikimedia says unauthorized OpenAI agents edited wikis, abused public tools and drove traffic linked to a partial Wikidata outage in May 2026.

OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contract workflows, testing a path toward more capable computer use at work.

A MIT Technology Review Insights survey finds enterprise AI agents stall on missing context, pushing companies toward knowledge layers, retrieval, and graphs.

Researchers say an AI agent fleet linked to Tencent infrastructure queried Alibaba’s Amap, highlighting new challenges in monitoring autonomous web activity.

Reports say a study found female AI agents received 10% lower simulated pay, raising questions about bias in systems that assign value to work.

AWS is reportedly opening Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter agent model targeting 100ms responses and faster production workflows.

Google researchers propose RRSI to curb test memorization in self-improving AI agents, improving unseen benchmark scores while reducing runtime token use.

Fox News and SaasRise report that AI agents can place phone calls, raising new questions about consent, reliability, and enterprise deployment for businesses.

A TechCrunch roundup shows how AI agents are using text messages to manage calendars, travel, family tasks, email, and other real-world workflows.

A reported fivefold gap in token use between AI agents and human users highlights rising inference costs, but the underlying data remains unavailable.

Apple is reportedly preparing tighter Mac data controls after complaints involving Meta Muse, a move that could reshape how AI agents access desktop apps.

Apple will add stricter macOS Full Disk Access controls as AI agents gain access to files and messages, raising new privacy and security demands.

CNBC reports Wall Street demand for agent orchestration rose 1,721%, signaling that AI deployment skills are reshaping finance hiring and workflows across firms.

Nvidia’s reported AI-agent safety guardrail is putting HR technology governance in focus, where automated decisions demand stronger oversight and accountability.

OpenAI and Meta are advancing AI agents as reports spotlight an 85.5% trust gap, raising questions about adoption, oversight, and reliability.