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93 articles covering "ai-agents"
Reports dated October 30 to November 5, 2026 describe GitHub, Cognition, Meta and AWS adding tools to coordinate, remember for or cap spending on coding agents; analysts and one preprint raise coordination, cost and audit questions.
GitHub and JetBrains say Copilot can run in Air locally or in cloud sandboxes billed to Copilot plans, but Air does not track Copilot credits, show its usage or set spending limits.
Google's Data Agent Kit pairs advisory skills with enforceable IAM deny policies for Google Cloud MCP tools; InfoQ and Google's documentation describe limits, and plugin 1.2.0 adds a database-onboarding skill.
Reporting on Bun, Copilot's runtime, OpenAI's Habitat, TypeScript ports and a Rails benchmark finds large claimed speedups, mostly self-reported, with disputed baselines and verification limits.
InfoWorld and The Register report competing Postgres-plus-Iceberg designs from Databricks, EDB, Snowflake, pgEdge and AWS, with analysts flagging a shared DuckDB dependency and catalog gaps.
The open-source Goose agent shipped v1.54.0 on October 8 with HTML session export and a first-time mode prompt, following v1.53.0's MCP Apps window, SSRF guard and Meta Muse Code provider.
DuckDB's blog describes a v2.0 CLI agent mode that cut output tokens 59% in its own Claude Code test, but v2.0 is not yet released.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI, saying developers can be held legally accountable if models enable cyberattacks during testing or after release.
Senators Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy announced a bipartisan proposal to hold AI agent operators and developers liable when advanced models hack into other systems or networks.
JetBrains has opened an early access program for Air in its IDEs, available as a Marketplace plugin or in 2026.3 EAP builds, and designed to run agents users already have.
Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over consumer risks, with formal demands for documents and executive testimony expected within weeks.