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AI agents news: AI that takes actions for you, browsing, calling, coding and working on its own, and the risks when it goes wrong.
The crypto-tracing firm says an attacker used AI agents, then an on-path attack, to take names, password hashes and live tokens for every user. Its tools are back online.
Alexa for Shopping, Amazon's AI shopping agent, now takes requests by text message. It starts with a small invite-only group in the US and reaches millions more in the coming weeks.
Airbnb says its AI agent will plan whole trips inside one screen that builds itself around your question, with a first rollout in the first half of 2027.
The startup's new smart ring lets you approve or reject what AI agents want to do with a tap, without taking out your phone. Pre-orders open Thursday and shipping starts in January 2027.
Security firm Claroc found that Muse's share links could be listed through public DNS records. Meta has paused sharing while it reviews the design.
Perplexity's new local-first mode puts the whole Computer agent, model and orchestrator included, on an Apple silicon Mac with at least 36GB of memory.
Plain-English explainers for the ideas behind AI agents news, each built from linked sources.
An AI agent is an AI system that decides its own next steps and uses tools to get a task done, instead of just answering one question. That makes agents powerful, and harder to control. Full explainer →
