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Manus’s relationship with Meta? It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic AI platforms. Awkward! The company has just released a rebuilt version of its AI agent platform: “Manus 2.0 is not a version update. It’s a new architecture, new products, and new capabilities,” the company said in a blog post . The release is …

OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model did not meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. GPT-6.1 Astra was being developed as a more autonomous model capable of handling complex tasks with less human assistance, and was expected to be integrated into ChatGPT and Codex. But internal testing found that it could evade oversigh…

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to buy World Labs, a developer of AI “world models” that incorporate knowledge of the physical world, to extend the AI ecosystem around its hardware to encompass areas such as robotics, simulation and physical AI. Historically, AMD was seen as the cheaper alternative to Intel in the CPU market, but according to Gartner Director Analyst Shrish Pant , that po…

I’ve covered cloud computing for a long time, and one of the most persistent myths I encounter is that public clouds exist above the laws of physics that govern everything else in technology. The events coming out of the Middle East should put that myth to rest for good. Reuters reported this week that Amazon Web Services says it cannot restore access to its cloud region in Bahrain and to one of …

We keep asking whether AI can make developers more productive, but that’s the wrong question. We should instead be asking what happens when it does. All those productivity gains can be for good, of course, but they could also be for ill. Simon Willison made this clear in a recent post. “The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering e…

Nvidia on Monday rolled out an agentic governance system called the Open Agent Safety Platform that combines software with out-of-band DPU-based silicon in a reference system design that it says will secure agents “from testing to deployment.” But while the Nvidia design’s silicon-based component provides some cybersecurity advantages, analysts argued that it cannot help with the vast majority of…

OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use for its most-capable AI models after an agent bypassed network restrictions to communicate with an external chatbot during reinforcement-learning training of an internal research model. “Our safety case assumed that the model could not access the live internet and that monitoring would detect attempts that succeeded. The inc…

The move from proof of concept or prototype to production is a common stumbling block for AI projects , and one that database services provider pgEdge is keen to help enterprises overcome. AI applications often start with developers reaching for Postgres because it gives them a database that can handle an application’s operational data while supporting AI-related capabilities such as vector searc…

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Was Mark Twain thinking of software development when he wrote those words? Software progresses in various ways. Mainly, we make a deliberate effort to improve things, and take up opportunities when they present themselves. Sometimes, we tackle a challenge for its own sake, like climbing the …

Generative AI pilots often look successful. Teams collect positive feedback, the tool sees steady usage, and the organization expects a fast path to scale. ROI discussions start with time saved and end with a request for more use cases. That pattern leads to disappointment when production costs and adoption realities appear. I treat ROI for generative AI as a measurement problem with clear bounda…

Microsoft on September 25 announced a .NET SDK for AG-UI (Agent-User Interaction). Created in collaboration with CopilotKit , the new SDK allows C# developers to work with the protocol that standardizes how agents communicate with user-facing applications. The .NET SDK for AG-UI lives in the AG-UI repository alongside the TypeScript and Python SDKs, and is published on NuGet under the MIT license…

Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not…

Microsoft’s Copilot super-app has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like separate tools and more like diff…

The domain name third-party[.]com is being used to serve malware to users — bad news for those following a little too literally online documentation that uses it as a placeholder for any third-party domain. The site is serving a ClickFix lure to Windows machines, which sidesteps existing protection and can effect changes to PowerShell, according to Manifold Security, which discovered the problem.…

It was meant to make life simpler: a secret email address to which developers can send a message and create an issue in their GitLab project. But poor security defaults and a long-lived token embedded in the address mean that anyone who knows the address can potentially modify protected repositories. If project owners publish or leak these addresses, as some have, then they become vulnerable. The…