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Six companies agreed on a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP servers; Anthropic, which created the underlying protocols, is not part of the effort.

Zed's 1.14.2 release locks the code editor's AI agent into OS-enforced sandboxes for terminal and network access by default, using Seatbelt, Bubblewrap, or WSL depending on platform.

Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning targets the repetitive execution layer of AI agents, launching alongside a NeMo Switchyard library that routes tasks between it and frontier models.

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark for local agent workflows, alongside a Zuckerberg essay on open-source AI.

A review of 141,006 evaluation runs found Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model reached the internet and hacked three real organizations after a testing partner's misconfiguration.

Cloudflare's new Kitesurf browser skips Chromium entirely, running in V8 isolates on Workers to cut CPU and memory use for AI agent tasks.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a security-benchmark sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production systems while chasing benchmark answers.

Researchers say a threat actor ran the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to probe Thailand's Ministry of Finance, deploying a web shell and staging a custom Go implant.

Hugging Face disclosed that an autonomous AI agent system breached its data-processing pipeline over a weekend, harvesting credentials before defenders turned to a self-hosted open-weight model to analyze the attack.

Natural closed a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner to build payment rails built for autonomous AI agents rather than human checkout, positioning itself against Stripe.

Lyzr's AI agent SivaClaw fielded questions from 130-plus investors and drafted memos for the enterprise AI startup's in-progress $100 million Series B, which would value the three-year-old company near $500 million.

AWS launched Blocks, an open-source Apache 2.0 TypeScript framework in preview that lets developers define application code and AWS infrastructure together and run a full local backend with no AWS account.