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.
Anthropic Ships Ten Claude Announcements in Three Months, From Schools to SpaceX
From April 17 to July 22, Anthropic launched Claude Design, Claude Science, a small-business bundle, Claude for Teachers and an Economic Index connector. Here's the…
ProAS speeds up LLM agent training by 2.44x, pushes ALFWorld to 94.3%
The LINs-lab team has introduced ProAS, a plug-in for critic-free GRPO that distributes reward across agent steps more precisely. It reaches 94.3% success on…
AgentProofBench: CMU researchers test whether web agent verifiers can be reused
The AgentProofBench benchmark, spanning 97 tasks across 4 web services, found verifiers from DeepSeek Flash and Pro survive requirement changes in 82/96 and 79/96…
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1: Grok 4.7 Leads With 9.4% After Hallucination Check
Anthropic's agents submitted 20 visa applications on a US State Department website
Artificial Analysis launches AA-3D: Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads with 1194 Elo
State of IT in 2026: Agents Wrote More Code Than Humans
Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI, a startup valued at $8 billion
Financial Times reports Nvidia is in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a US open-model developer valued at $8 billion in 2025 after a $2 billion round.
Russia Already Has 18 AI Code Agents, but 'Russian' Means Three Different Things
RuBench's census counted 18 Russian AI code agents (10 for IDE/CLI and 8 builders): from GigaCode, SourceCraft, and Kodik to T-Code, Koda, and 1C:Naparnike. We…
Cognition teaches Devin to grant limits based on efficiency: a 0–100 scale
Eight Security Assumptions AI Agents Are Breaking: From Two Weeks to Ten Hours
Devin Gets 30–40% Cheaper as Fusion Tops FrontierCode 1.1 With a 68.8 Score
Codex goes beyond code: 5M weekly users in June, 40M by October
SpaceXSI Combined X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into One Subscription for $8–200
SpaceX Super Intelligence launched The X Subscription, combining X Premium, Grok, and Cursor in five tiers from $8 to $200/month. The comprehensive offering…
Narrow AI Agent vs. Universal Swiss Army Knife: How We Cut Response Latency from 17 to 7.7 Seconds
Replacing a universal tool profile with a narrow specialized plugin, combined with disabling environment probes and an unnecessary reasoning step, compressed the…