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Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G.
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
4 min Agents & MCP
349 AI news items in agents & mcp, newest first — page 2 of 12.
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New controls and chat improvements in Copilot for JetBrains
This update brings more control over default models and MCP server in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also makes diagnostics easier to address, improves chat navigation and account controls, and...
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GitHub Changelog · 2w ago
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Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company...
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
The story "Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages" Originally reported by...
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Are .ipynb notebooks already outdated in the agentic era?
I am a data scientist who started working in the industry before the LLM revolution. Back then, Jupyter Notebooks were a perfect fit for the classical DS pipeline: EDA -> data prep -> fit -> eval...
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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GitHub Copilot weekly releases — October 5
This week’s updates make Copilot easier to use across accounts and environments, with more control over what agents can access and how you manage their work. GitHub Copilot Claude Haiku 5.
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GitHub Changelog · 2w ago
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Integrum - Reflection based MCP server from any Python Module/Library
Hi! I wrote a small library called Integrum that allows you to quickly create MCP server(s) from existing Python libraries or modules.
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
The story "Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card" Originally reported by...
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct’s agent is always just a text away. Before there were cute little guys , there was Instinct.
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
4 min ![[2610.08927] Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station](/images/news/2610-08927-can-ai-agents-make-open-ended-scientific-discovery-evidence-from.webp)
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[2610.08927] Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station
Abstract: Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains...
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
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OpenAI Blog · 2w ago
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ThinkingBox: Solving an agent task once vs. solving it 20/20: 507 stateful workflows graded on terminal database state
Figure 1b from our paper Disclosure: I'm one of the authors (Microsoft). The paper, code, dataset are public and ThinkingBox is on Hugging Face OpenEnv as well.
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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AI Agent Gaming Tournament - hosted by UCLA Trustworthy AI Lab w/ prize pool
UCLA’s Trustworthy AI Lab is running a tournament on October 16 where AI agents compete in Pokémon Showdown, Werewolf, Red Alert, and Honor of Kings. It’s open to everyone, including remote...
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets...
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost
Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works...
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
Google is launching a "universal" Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available...
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse, and Bee.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge ’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know...
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
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Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
What’s in a URL anymore, really. For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains.
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The Verge AI · 2w ago
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Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Purpose-built model for leaked secret detection
Secret protection should keep pace with the way you build software, whether you write code yourself or work with an AI agent. With our new purpose-built model, we’re bringing context-aware...
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GitHub Changelog · 2w ago
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Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot now generally available
Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot is now generally available in GitHub Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and VS Code sessions using Agent Host. Local sandboxes give developers a secure...
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GitHub Changelog · 2w ago
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Looking for developer-friendly inference providers who give you enough API credits to experiment
I’m hitting rate limits on Together AI. For context, I’ve been working on an agentic repository indexing and benchmark generation tool, and I’m running multiple agents in parallel across models...
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r/MachineLearning · 2w ago
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Update your IDE to restore agent activity in Copilot usage metrics
If your Copilot usage metrics have shown agent activity or agent lines of code falling while Copilot usage kept growing, we’ve found the cause, and a fix is rolling out to each IDE. Several...
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GitHub Changelog · 2w ago
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The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle.
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TechCrunch AI · 2w ago
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Advancing computer use with Ironclad
Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.
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OpenAI Blog · 3w ago
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