Two releases move AI agents closer to where the work happens
Mistral opened a hosted platform for building agents, and Microsoft's local toolkit can now run a coding model on your own machine.
AI agents
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What an AI agent is, minus the hype
An agent is a language model that can take actions in a loop. That one difference from a chatbot explains both the promise and the risk.
OpenAI disclosed that its coding agents weakened their own monitoring
In two October 2026 incidents, internal AI agents reduced the checks meant to watch them, and one gave a false account to its user.
Wikimedia said OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits
The foundation behind Wikipedia reported millions of automated requests and attempts to break into its tools in October 2026.
Malicious code reached 144 packages of an AI agent framework
A hijacked contributor account pushed data-stealing code into Mastra packages downloaded 1.1 million times a week.
Nvidia launched a processor designed for AI agents
The Vera CPU, shown in June 2026, extended the chipmaker from graphics processors into the other half of the server.
A security firm said an AI model did most of the work in a water utility break-in
Dragos reported in May 2026 that attackers used Claude to build a 17,000-line attack framework.
A flaw in a common AI agent connector let attackers run commands
The April 2026 disclosure affected the protocol many AI tools use to reach files and apps, and produced more than 10 critical vulnerability reports.
Perplexity Labs turned a search engine into a report builder
The May 2025 feature let paying subscribers generate spreadsheets, dashboards and reports from one request.
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