AI Agents
AI agents are LLM-powered systems that don't just answer — they plan steps, call tools and drive a task to completion: writing code, searching the web, booking, analyzing. 2026 became the year of agents, from coding agents to autonomous researchers. This page gathers all our coverage of agentic AI: launches, protocols (MCP, A2A), reliability and real-world use.
PMX AI: Malaysia's prime minister to launch an autonomous AI twin
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is launching the AI avatar PMX AI so it can autonomously serve citizens in everyday tasks, from consultations to payment…
Sixtyfour: the Y Combinator startup that evaluates every AI agent output
Sixtyfour developed an evaluation system for AI agents: instead of trusting LLM outputs, the startup checks every response through expert evaluation and releases…
KTern.AI builds an agentic platform for SAP on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
KTern.AI has moved its SaaS platform for SAP to an AWS agentic architecture: specialized AI agents gained persistent context, secure access to tools, and…
DeepSearch-Evolve: a 9B-parameter web agent learns without supervision and scores 61% on GAIA
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 — multimodal agent with 1 million token context
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra sets an accuracy record among open models in LangChain test
Former GitHub CEO launched a distributed Git network for the era of agentic coding
GitLost vulnerability on GitHub: AI agents leak data from private repositories
Noma Labs researchers identified the GitLost vulnerability on GitHub — under certain prompts, AI agents extract data from private repositories and publish it in…
Vercel Agent in public beta: AI agent investigates production incidents without extra permissions
Vercel has released an AI agent into public beta that investigates production incidents on its own and suggests fixes — but it won't touch anything without explicit…
Microsoft lays off 4,800 employees: commercial sales and Xbox divisions affected
AI technically executed the first ransomware attack, but a human selected the target and provided access
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on mobile devices and in the browser
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to smartphones — tasks keep running without a laptop
Microsoft launched Foundry Managed Compute: thousands of Hugging Face models with one click
Microsoft combined Azure Foundry with the Hugging Face catalog: thousands of open models now deploy in the cloud with one click, with enterprise security and…
SQL, Pandas, or AI Agents: KDnuggets Compared Three Analytics Tools by Eight Criteria
KDnuggets tested SQL, Pandas, and AI agents on three identical analytics tasks using eight metrics — with real execution time measurements and actual agent prompts.