News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow Vercel — AI dev-tools 16d ago GPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gateway GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI is now available on AI Gateway. It improves on GPT-6 Sol for coding, computer use, and professional work, including reading complex documents and carrying out multi-step workflows. The model is suited to agents that need to debug code, work through… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Speculative reward hacking in coding agents I audited thousands of agent rollouts in DeepSWE-1.1. Over 80% contained reasoning about an imagined grader. Yet no grader/verifier is mentioned in prompts nor accessible to the agents. Agents reasoned things like: " Let me look at the problem from the grader's perspective " and… 21 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Startup NinjaTech AI Takes Aim at Agent Sticker Shock NinjaTech AI, an early-stage startup backed by Amazon and led by a former Google product management executive, unveiled a new product that promises to help large companies take the guesswork out of forecasting the costs of running agents around the clock to complete long-running… 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Manus Unveils New Personal Agent App in Challenge to Meta’s Muse Manus, the AI agent startup that recently separated from Meta Platforms, launched on Monday a new standalone app for personal agents that could compete with Meta’s Muse. The new app, Cue , provides each user with multiple personal AI agents. Each agent has access to its own… 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization. 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add… 37 Anthropic SDK (Python) releases dev-tools 16d ago v1.9.0 1.9.0 (2026-09-28) Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0 Features api: add between_tools thinking type ( a9a577d ) api: add claude-sonnet-5-5 ( a5a25e9 ) api: add include_inherited and source to workspace rate limits ( 0bf4af8 ) api: add typed event type values to the Managed Agents… 19 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’ As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents. 32 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 16d ago When can we say AI made a scientific discovery? This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture… 36 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 16d ago OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified. 28 OpenAI Python SDK releases dev-tools 16d ago v3.20.0 3.20.0 (2026-09-28) Features api: add Agents credential and session options ( #3967 ) ( bb68198 ) api: add Cyber access programs to Responses ( #3956 ) ( 09c5b6f ) responses: opt in to incremental WebSocket text and tool snapshots ( #3973 ) ( d0207b4 ) responses: preserve… 8 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 16d ago Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879883 Points: 200 # Comments: 254 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Need small model that can work for tool caling and agent Hi. So....... after toturing my 750 ti 4 gb and 16 gb ram with image gen model .i want continue experiment with agent mode like hermes or opencode, using local model but before go i want ask few question. are big model = good perfomance or small model can do same stuff. what… 5 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Browser demo of our Clash Royale RL environment: a 5.6k-parameter REINFORCE policy learns defensive placement against a brute-force optimum [P] Yesterday I shared our open-source Clash Royale simulator and its recurrent PPO agent here. A training loop is easier to understand when you can watch it, so we put a small interactive version online: https://itzik123.github.io/ClashRoyaleAi/lab/ The task is one decision. An… 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion. 8 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 16d ago Apps, Agents, and Aggregation Agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech's biggest prize. 38 Hugging Face official-blog 16d ago Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents Team Article Published September 28, 2026 Upvote 1 Tony Wu h-tonywu Hcompany maxime h-maxime Hcompany Frederic Renard frenard-h Hcompany Vincent Coyette vincentcoyette Hcompany Emrick Sinitambirivoutin… 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago NVIDIA shipped OpenShell, an open source sandbox that gives local and open agents real runtime limits instead of prompt rules. Over 100 firms joined the safety stack. OpenAI did not. https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2104499465055023424   submitted by   /u/InternationalGap3698 [link]   [comments] 14 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 16d ago NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring To understand where agentic AI stands today, consider the last seismic shift in technology: the rise of the internet in the 90s. It was new and full of... 7 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 16d ago Add Runtime Controls to AI Agents with NVIDIA OpenShell AI agents can be given a goal, write code, use tools, and keep working as new information becomes available. This opens the door to applications that... 17 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 16d ago Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July,… 16 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Free, open-source AI engineering course where you build each algorithm by hand: 523 lessons, now as EPUB/PDF books [P] AI Engineering from Scratch is an MIT-licensed curriculum: 523 lessons across 20 phases, from linear algebra and backprop to transformers, LLMs, agents, and production serving. The code is stdlib-first, so you see every step instead of calling a library. This month's edition: -… 37 Simon Willison community 16d ago Quoting Muse AI Agent Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Not All Memories Are Equal: Hierarchical Collaborative Memory for Validity-Aware Retrieval in LLM Agents arXiv:2609.30289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In team collaboration scenarios, memory is heterogeneous and continually evolving. Team memories capture collective decisions, protocols, and current consensus, while individual memories preserve member-specific observations,… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Cartograph: Federated Tool Discovery with Operator-Attested Retrieval for AI Agents arXiv:2609.30293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to discover and call tools, but loading every definition becomes expensive as connected catalogs grow. We present Cartograph, a federated MCP proxy that changes agent-visible tool… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents At Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops arXiv:2609.30297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational recommendation agents are a new paradigm for content discovery, enabling users to express complex intents through natural language (e.g., "recommend Italian indie artists I haven't heard before"). A central challenge… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago CARGO: Context-Aware Retrieval-Gated Evaluation of Agentic AI in Production arXiv:2609.30471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reference-based LLM-as-a-judge evaluation assumes the reference answer is the target. In deployed agentic systems that operate over dynamic entities (support cases, assets, accounts), the closest available reference typically… 4 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Inquesto Score: A reliability Protocol For Voice Agents arXiv:2609.30514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice agents are increasingly deployed in workflows where failed interactions can affect transactions, access, and other consequential outcomes, creating a need for reproducible and interpretable evaluation. We introduce Inquesto… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Probing Stability-Plasticity Tradeoffs in Agent Memory through Cognitive Experimental Paradigms arXiv:2609.30558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent memory systems are increasingly used to maintain long-term user preferences, task states and evolving facts, but current evaluations often collapse memory behavior into final-answer accuracy. We introduce MemProbe, a… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge arXiv:2609.30604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing computer-use agent benchmarks do not fully evaluate agents acting as assistants. A useful assistant retrieves information across complex, multi-step workflows, synthesizes it into artifacts (documents, presentations,… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago ToolSearcher: Optimizing Tool Selection at Scale via Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.30906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language processing but struggle to interact with external environments. Tool learning provides a promising way to extend LLMs into actionable agents, where tool selection is a critical… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago PIA: A Personal Intelligence Agent Turning Health Conversations into Records and Records into Understanding arXiv:2609.31255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose agent memory summarizes conversations: it extracts salient snippets, embeds them, and retrieves the top-k into the prompt. A health agent cannot run on summaries: a dose becomes a sentence, "since last week" is… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Thinking Less to Simulate Better: Intuitive Prompting Improves LLM Agents Simulating Individual Social Media Reactions, Including Unfamiliar Content arXiv:2609.30563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Platform policies are increasingly tested on artificial users, making agent fidelity important. Yet convincing fake profiles could also manipulate perceived public opinion before elections. Validation has concentrated on… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Epstein Files Engine: Agentic Search for Investigative Journalism arXiv:2609.30611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On Jan. 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice released a mixed-media collection concerning Jeffrey Epstein, including about three million pages of PDFs. We describe the Epstein Files Engine, an A.I. agent The New York Times… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Prompt Injection Detection for Email Agents Through Attack Chain Modeling arXiv:2609.30657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model email assistants are particularly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because untrusted email content can be retrieved into the model context and influence subsequent tool use. Existing prompt injection… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago KuaFu: Compressing Long User Behavior into Understanding at Billion Scale arXiv:2609.31045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational agents, generative recommenders, and personalized advertising all rest on one capability: understanding each user from raw behavior. Prevailing industrial practice is task-specific: for each task, a relevant… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents arXiv:2609.31468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferences quietly fix what gets bought and what it costs. Hotel booking is a clean… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Compact Documentation for Coding Agents: A Benchmark, an Optimizer, and Why It Does Not Transfer arXiv:2609.31587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether natural-language documentation helps coding agents resolve software issues, and we build the tools to construct and evaluate it. We introduce a roundtrip benchmark that scores code descriptions by whether… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago VLAA-GUI: Knowing When to Stop, Recover, and Search, A Modular Framework for GUI Automation arXiv:2604.21375v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous GUI agents face two fundamental challenges: early stopping, where agents prematurely declare success without verifiable evidence, and repetitive loops, where agents cycle through the same failing actions without… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago StraTA: Incentivizing Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Strategic Trajectory Abstraction arXiv:2605.06642v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as interactive agents, but optimizing them for long-horizon decision making remains difficult because current methods are largely purely reactive, which weakens both… 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago Qwen plays World of Warcraft Been doing a bunch of vibe coding lately. Had my agents host a private WoW server for me, then built out a web browser client so you can play without installing the game and it has mobile controls. Afterwards, created a custom mcp to drive the client and have finer game control… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago Public MCP server for Canadian privacy law data (free, no auth) - works with any client that speaks Streamable HTTP I built this, so the disclosure goes up front. It's a free, public MCP server plus a REST API with Canadian privacy law data. The MCP endpoint is at https://movahedi.ca/mcp and it uses Streamable HTTP, so any client that speaks that transport can connect. No signup, no API key,… 36 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 17d ago There are no "rogue" AI agents Article URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083 Points: 207 # Comments: 145 32 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago Zer0Fit - Zero-shot predictions, classifications, and regressions using Google ML research models running locally as a dockerized MCP AI grad student here. With all the recent interest in Jev, I thought I would share something I built la few months ago that brings ML models and LLMs together in a different way than Jev does for different use cases. https://github.com/porespellar/Zer0Fit Background: A few… 16 r/MachineLearning community 17d ago ClashRoyaleAi: an open-source, deterministic Clash Royale simulator for RL, with recurrent PPO, lookahead search and expert iteration [P] The opponent plans by simulation: every second it scores each candidate play by running the match 10 seconds ahead in the engine. Our PPO agent learned to park its Cannon behind its own King. Losing a building in a fight cost reward, and letting it decay cost nothing, so it… 8 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago Which of the 16gb VRAM qwen3.8 27b’s is the best? I’m having a hard time finding out which one gives you fastest speed, maximum context with best possible quality. I can run unsloth qwen3.8 27b iq4_xs with 65k q8 kv, context without MTP and vision offloaded to cpu. But also kinda slow for agentic work at like 30ish tok/s )I… 30 r/MachineLearning community 17d ago Teaching Neural Nets to Fight with RL [P] In this project I wanted to see if we could discover any interesting emergent behaviors if we trained two agents to play a streetfighter-like game. It turns out that the agents are really good at reward hacking, but using a little reward shaping and league play I was eventually… 23 Vercel — AI dev-tools 18d ago Ember-1 from Fireworks now available on AI Gateway Ember-1 from Fireworks is now available on AI Gateway . Ember-1 is a research preview reasoning model built on Kimi K3 for coding and agentic workflows. Fireworks reports approximately 40% fewer generated tokens than Kimi K3 at comparable quality across its evaluations. For… 13 Marcus on AI community 18d ago BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands Meanwhile, the US government appears to be paralyzed 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago Splash 1.1.0 released, GGUF quants support, MLX import and more On my M5 Pro 64GB I can comfortably work in an agentic setup with the Qwen3.8 27B model in good quality (Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL) at a decent speed of 50 t/s. Splash combines optimized kernels, excellent speculative decoding, a well-implemented prefix cache, and mixed-weight support… 26 Page 8 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
