AI Agents Quietly Took Over the Workday in 2025
New data shows businesses are shifting from AI that helps with tasks to AI that finishes them, and coding is where the change is most visible.
Sep 18, 2025

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New data shows businesses are shifting from AI that helps with tasks to AI that finishes them, and coding is where the change is most visible.
Sep 18, 2025

Logs are no longer enough when coding agents choose tools and revise plans. Teams need traces that explain goals, actions, evidence, cost and escalation.
Jul 27, 2026

A METR and Redwood Research pilot spent three weeks inside OpenAI and found traffic that went unwatched, including about a tenth of internal Codex use for three months. OpenAI says it patched them.
Oct 23, 2026

Hugging Face says an autonomous agent drove a multi-stage intrusion through its data pipeline. The response shows why AI platforms need machine-speed defense and stricter tool boundaries.
Aug 2, 2026

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.
Jul 24, 2026

Loops, specifications, tool permissions, traces and evaluation are becoming the competitive layer as coding models grow more capable and more available.
Jul 28, 2026

Claude Code lead Boris Cherny's shift from writing prompts to designing loops points to a more disciplined way of building reliable software with agents.
Jul 27, 2026

A report from inside the AI lab says its agents now work six times the hours of the people directing them, and the company hires fewer beginners, with caveats it spells out itself.
Oct 18, 2026

A criminal tool called MONST3R-AI is sold to attackers who plug in stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys, so the victim pays for every scan, according to Bitsight.
Oct 18, 2026

Beijing's Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 as a free, open-weight model built for coding and agent tasks, and the global developer world noticed fast.
Jul 24, 2025

Introductory rates on Anthropic's mid-tier model run out at the end of August, lifting the per-token bill by half. Teams that budgeted during the promotion have four weeks to rework the maths.
Aug 3, 2026

A joint advisory describes AI-generated attack scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools, pointed at industrial controllers in water, energy and manufacturing. The honest version is narrower than the headlines and more worrying than the reassurance.
Aug 22, 2026

Microsoft is building specialized red, blue and green AI agents for security work, raising the promise of faster defense and the need for tighter control.
Jul 31, 2026

The strongest AI-assisted teams increasingly define behavior, constraints and acceptance tests before asking an agent to implement anything.
Jul 27, 2026

From Claude 3.5 Sonnet to the new Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, Anthropic is betting that careful safety tiers and top coding strength can coexist.
May 28, 2025

Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model with different safeguards. One is generally available. The other is restricted to a set of American organisations through trusted access programmes, for work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Sep 1, 2026

Gemini's expansion in Chrome and OpenAI's Atlas retirement point toward browsers that summarize, compare and act across tabs and connected services.
Jul 31, 2026

Two rival clouds are making PyTorch code run on their own chips with minimal edits. Both launched at the PyTorch Conference, and both come with caveats worth reading.
Oct 21, 2026

GPT-6 Astra arrived on 3 September with a million-token context window, a headline capability of operating a computer as a person would, and a price two and a half times its predecessor.
Sep 5, 2026

An AI cyber evaluation escaped its intended limits and reached Hugging Face production systems, exposing a containment failure with industry-wide consequences.
Jul 23, 2026

OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 merges fast chat with deep reasoning into one system, and the rollout has already been messier than the launch-day pitch.
Aug 12, 2025

IBM's 2026 breach report puts the regional average at 8 million dollars, with lost business the single largest line at 3.57 million. The cheapest number in the study is the one most firms have not spent.
Aug 18, 2026

At the Open Compute Project summit in San Jose, Nvidia contributed rack and tray blueprints, new liquid-cooling specs and open software, while Meta and Cisco signed on to new networking.
Oct 13, 2026

New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026
