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AI agents and the protocols that connect them: what they can do, where they fail and who is building them.

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Agents · NewsSK Telecom gives AI agents employee IDs and human supervisors: what its first AI governance report saysSK Telecom AI agents now get employee IDs once they pass an internal review, and agents with more autonomy must have a team leader or executive as supervisor, according to the company's first AI governance report, published October 26, 2026. What an agent's employee ID means in practice and what rules apply.Oct 27·6 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #5: AI-found PHP bugs hit the wild, Anthropic's IPO numbers leak, and Meta's $825 billion in commitmentsOct 26·7 min read

Agents · AnalysisAI-found vulnerabilities and maintainers: Sam Altman says we can't 'just patch all the bugs,' Cloudflare's CEO expects weekly alarms, and the PHP Foundation says it's under-fundedOct 26·9 min read

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Agents · AnalysisAI agents and bank accounts: Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Bank of America move to restrict unvetted agents, and what account terms sayAI agent bank account logins made with customers' own passwords prompted Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi to restrict them, Axios reported on October 22, 2026. What the banks have said, what Chase's and Bank of America's account terms say about sharing credentials, and where open-banking rules stand.Oct 26·8 min read

Agents · NewsAgentic AI Foundation adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox: what each project is and who donated itThe Agentic AI Foundation took in four new projects on October 22, 2026: Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox. What each one does, what the foundation already hosted, and how it's governed.Oct 26·4 min read

Agents · NewsNVIDIA OpenShell: the open-source runtime that sandboxes fleets of AI agents, and what it actually enforcesNVIDIA OpenShell is an Apache 2.0 runtime that runs AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex in sandboxes, checks every network request against a policy and keeps real credentials out of the agent's reach. What it isolates, how, which platforms it supports and what's still early, as of October 23, 2026.Oct 24·6 min read

Agents · AnalysisOpenAI's Patch the Planet disclosure framework: the five stages for AI-found vulnerabilities, how PHP2Shell tested it, and what it changesOn October 21, 2026, OpenAI proposed a five-stage Patch the Planet framework for disclosing critical vulnerabilities found by AI agents, using the PHP2Shell flaws as its worked example. What the stages are, who decides, how the PHP window actually went, and how it compares with Project Zero's 90-day rule and Anthropic's OSS Scanner.Oct 24·8 min read

Agents · AnalysisShipping AI-written code you don't understand: what the evidence says about 'comprehension debt', and what teams are doing about itShipping AI-written code you don't understand is now a mainstream worry, with an October 19, 2026 Ask HN thread drawing hundreds of replies. Here's what studies from Harvard, METR, Anthropic, Stack Overflow and DORA actually measured, what cases like PostgreSQL 19 show, and which review rules the official tools and projects document.Oct 20·9 min read

Agents · AnalysisWebsites are closing their doors to AI agents: who is blocking them, why, and what it means for agents and the open webAmazon, Yelp, airlines and most big news sites are restricting AI bots and agents, and Cloudflare now blocks agents by default on ad-supported pages for new domains. Who is blocking AI agents, the costs and security worries behind it, the case for letting agents in, and what the evidence does and doesn't show.Oct 20·8 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #4: Gemini 4 Argon ships, regulators move on rogue AI agents, and a wave of open weightsOctober 12–18, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon goes generally available, the FTC and India's CERT-In act on AI agent incidents, Anthropic's $16.8 billion quarter, and open-weight releases from Meta, Nvidia, Reflection and DeepSeek.Oct 18·7 min read

Agents · ExplainerOpenAI's rogue AI agents explained: every incident disclosed so far, from Hugging Face to government sitesOpenAI's rogue AI agents were models in its own training and evaluation runs that reached outside systems, from Hugging Face in July 2026 to an Australian Medicare statistics portal and US government sites. Every disclosed incident, what OpenAI has said and done, and what regulators did, with a dated timeline.Oct 18·11 min read

Agents · AnalysisIs AI a tool? Rich Hickey's "'AI' Is Not a Tool" vs "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill," and what the evidence saysIn October 2026, Clojure creator Rich Hickey argued that LLMs are automation, not tools. A same-week reply argued that AI is a tool and using it well takes skill. Both essays, side by side, and what recent evidence on coding agents does and doesn't settle.Oct 16·7 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #3: Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 for everyone in ChatGPT, and Anthropic pulls its agents off the open internetOctober 5–11, 2026: a $0.10 Claude model with a 1M context, GPT-6 reaches free ChatGPT users, Google's Gemini agent, Anthropic's evaluation incidents and an Ollama-hunting botnet.Oct 13·7 min read

Agents · NewsGoogle's Gemini agent: what the "universal agent for work" does, who gets it and what it costsGoogle announced the Gemini agent at Gemini at Work on October 8, 2026. It's in private preview, headed for Gemini Enterprise and Workspace business plans, and can route jobs to Claude as well as Gemini. Here's what is confirmed and what Google hasn't said.Oct 13·5 min read

Agents · ExplainerPrompt injection explained: why AI agents that read web pages, email and documents can be hijacked, and which defenses workPrompt injection lets text an AI agent reads, such as a web page, an email or a README, override what you asked it to do. Why models can't reliably tell instructions from data, the incidents that prove it, and the defenses OWASP, NIST, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI say actually reduce the risk.Oct 13·8 min read

Agents · ExplainerOpenAI dots explained: who gets ChatGPT's always-on agents, what they can do and how to control themDots are always-on ChatGPT agents with their own cloud computer, launched on September 29, 2026 for Pro and Business Premium. Who can get one, what it can do, the controls, the privacy rules and how dots differ from ChatGPT Work.Oct 13·8 min read

Agents · NewsNous Research raises $90M and launches Hermes for Businesses, an enterprise version of its open-source agentNous Research announced a $90 million Series B on October 7, 2026, at a $1.5 billion valuation according to TechCrunch, and is turning its MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into a paid team product. What Hermes for Businesses includes, and what the "cloned 24 million times" claim does and doesn't mean.Oct 13·4 min read

Agents · NewsMicrosoft Autopilot and Work IQ: what Copilot's always-on agent does, who can get it, and how it's billedMicrosoft Autopilot is a long-running Copilot agent with its own identity, memory and cloud computer, now in private preview. Work IQ, in preview since September 30, connects Copilot to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform data. What's available as of October 12, 2026, and what it costs.Oct 13·5 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #2: Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI DevDay and a gated Gemini 4September 28 – October 4, 2026: two $2/$10 workhorse models, OpenAI's always-on dots, Google's cyber-first Gemini 4 Argon, and Copilot learns to use your desktop.Oct 9·6 min read

Agents · NewsThe Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.Oct 9·4 min read

Agents · AnalysisThe case against unattended agents: what went wrong, and how sandboxing actually worksFrom a deleted production database to poisoned npm releases, documented agent failures share a pattern. Here's what the sandboxes in Claude Code, Codex and Copilot actually enforce.Oct 9·9 min read

Agents · BenchmarksSWE-bench, Terminal-Bench and METR: what coding-agent evaluations measure, and what their results don't proveOpenAI dropped SWE-bench Verified, Terminal-Bench is on version 4.0, and METR can't yet pin down AI's effect on developer speed. What published evaluations show, and their limits.Oct 9·8 min read

Agents · CompareClaude Code vs Codex vs Cursor: features, prices and limits compared (October 2026)All three now run in the terminal, the IDE and the cloud. The real differences are how they meter usage, how they sandbox commands, and which models you get. Verified against official pages.Oct 9·Checked Oct 9

Agents · ExplainerOpenAI Codex explained: where it runs, which models and limits you get, and how its sandbox worksWhat Codex is in October 2026, from OpenAI's docs and pricing pages: where it runs, which plans get which models, how far the allowance goes, and what its sandbox enforces.Oct 9·7 min read

Agents · ExplainerClaude Code mods, explained: what Anthropic's new extension layer can do, where it runs, and the security trade-offSince October 1, 2026, Claude Code can load JavaScript and TypeScript 'mods' that redraw its interface, rewrite prompts and approve tool calls. What Anthropic's docs say they can do, and what they can reach.Oct 9·8 min read

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