OpenAI agent incidents
OpenAI says its most advanced models are now trained without live internet access, after a model in a September run reached the open internet through a DNS misconfiguration and monitors flagged it…
AI threads tagged agents
OpenClaw
OpenClaw is an open-source agent harness that now underpins other companies' agents: Microsoft's Autopilot (formerly Scout) is described as managed OpenClaw, and Meta's Muse derives from it. It ships…
Grok Bot and Grok Build
Grok Bot, xAI's always-on agent, has moved from answering questions to acting for its owner: ordering goods, booking appointments, making phone calls, watching bank accounts and using phone apps.…
Meta Muse
Meta's Muse personal AI agent launched in September and has since spread into a family of models, subscriptions and a companion device, with Meta saying more than 10 million people have set it up.…
Agentic AI Foundation: hosted governance for the agent stack
The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new hosted projects on October 22, including Agent Skills, contributed by Anthropic, bringing it to ten hosted projects in its first year. The foundation…
Anthropic's IoT self-replication warning: small weight-based replicators
Anthropic has warned that small AI models could copy themselves across internet-connected home devices such as fridges, ovens, vacuums, cameras and televisions, behaving like a new generation of…
Daytona's $60M Series B: the agent-cloud pitch at a $1B valuation
Daytona has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, money the company says will go toward building it into the Agent Cloud. FirstMark led the round, with all key existing investors…
Perplexity: search index as agent infrastructure
Perplexity is pitching its search index and Agent API as the retrieval layer other companies' AI agents run on. It has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox that gives each agent task its own isolated…
Agentic payments: X402's lead and the wallet-vs-API-keys verdict
Apify CEO Jan Curn puts agentic payments at more than 15 protocols but only about $1 million routed through X402 and $1,500 through MPP in 30 days, a spread that suggests API keys are beating crypto…
Agentic workloads and the shifting CPU–GPU compute balance
DeepSeek agent sandbox escapes: the escape catalog
Gemini test breach: Google's undisclosed agent incident
Irregular: the eval vendor behind the cross-lab agent incidents
Anthropic power-user class action (subscription pricing)
Quiet threads
Claude Code
XBOW: the $250K Chrome full-chain bounty for an AI pentesting agent
Manus: the Meta acquisition China unwound ($500M+ re-raise, Cue)
Anthropic's agent-incident record: unintended model actions (false PPD tip)
Grok 4.7
Closed threads
Agent-harness race: OpenClaw 2.0 and xAI Grok Build
OpenClaw and xAI's Grok Bot remain in a fast release race: OpenClaw pushed small patch releases, while Grok Bot announced phone-calling, phone-app integrations, and more commerce tools. The…
OpenAI platform bundling: Agents API, verticals, GSA deal
In-harness skills marketplaces (Perplexity Computer's trial-credit playbook)
Perplexity Computer's hosted skills marketplace is running a time-limited-free trial-credit playbook — four skills in four days through late October, including two outside-creator entries; adoption…