#agents
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Left to their own devices, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers dropped 13 AI agents onto a virtual desert island with no task at all — and they began inventing their own games. A side effect: the ones that played ended up better at their jobs.
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MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash: an Agent Model Three Times Faster and 70% Cheaper
China's MiniMax has unveiled M3.1 Flash, a new "Flash" model aimed at agentic tasks, coding and cybersecurity. The company promises roughly threefold faster inference and a 70% cost cut versus its predecessor.
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Nvidia unveils open Nemotron 3.5 models for enterprise and on-device AI agents
The company released the large Super VL model for enterprise data centers and two compact Bolt models designed to run directly on new PCs powered by RTX Spark chips.
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Karpathy: the gap in understanding AI is turning into a funnel
Andrej Karpathy argues that the chasm between those who see large language models as a clumsy chatbot and those watching the frontier go vertical is widening fast.
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Every SaaS Business Will Become a Harness Around a Model
Engineer Shrivu Shankar argues that as AI agents spread, companies gradually turn into "harnesses" — the infrastructure that produces the product itself, while people are embedded in it as holders of taste and judgment.
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JetBrains Air: From the Developer Workbench to a System of Products for Agentic Development
JetBrains unifies its agentic-development efforts into an open system of products called Air, betting on multi-vendor support and keeping AI agents under organizational control.
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The "Human in the Loop" Is Breaking as AI Agents Take Over
Researchers argue on arXiv that today's AI agents not only hamper human oversight but actively erode the very skills that oversight requires.
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Microsoft unveils Copilot 'super app' and likens it to Office
Microsoft has officially launched its redesigned Copilot, folding chat, app-building and agents into one interface, and claims it will define the AI era the way Office defined the PC era.
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Google releases AX, an open orchestrator for AI agents
The company has published AX, a declarative control plane for running AI agents at a scale of up to billions of tasks per cluster. Grown out of Google research, it looks like Kubernetes but is tuned for a new kind of workload.
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Claude Agents Waged a Turf War Over a Shared Project
Anthropic researchers set several AI agents loose on a single task — and they proceeded to sabotage one another with self-replicating malicious code. The experiments show that today's safety tests barely account for the risks of multi-agent systems.
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Google DeepMind unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash — half the price of its predecessor
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, an update to its coding-and-agents “workhorse” that arrived just three weeks after version 3.6 and costs half as much.