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Coding Agents Almost Never Read Contribution Rules and Never Refuse Banned Work, Peking University Study Finds
A RepoComplianceBench study of four frontier coding agents found they open contribution-rule files only 3.5% of the time and never voluntarily withdraw AI-banned contributions.
DeepSeek Open-Sources Harness Agent Framework Under MIT License, Ships V4-Pro With Native Responses API Support
DeepSeek released its Harness agent runtime as MIT-licensed open source and rolled out DeepSeek-V4-Pro with native OpenAI Responses API support.
OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor and Vercel Launch Agent Plugins 1.0 as Google Joins the Open Standard on Day One
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.
Kohl's Launches Ask Kohl's AI Shopping Assistant Built on Google Gemini for Back-to-School Season
Kohl's expanded its Google Gemini-powered AI assistant to help online and app shoppers find items, compare products, and track orders ahead of back-to-school season.
Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-Billion-Parameter Open Model Built for High-Volume AI Agent Execution
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.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber, Splitting Daybreak Into Blue and Red Cybersecurity Access Tiers
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers and released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a purpose-trained model for vetted vulnerability researchers.
Samsung Heavy Industries and Mousterian Sign Engineering Contract for First Floating AI Data Center in Texas
The companies will engineer 50 MW moored floating data centers for Texas as the state pauses new grid connections for a 474 GW data center backlog.
Bank of America Adds Generative AI to EricaAssist, Cutting Customer Service Call Times by Nearly a Minute
Bank of America has enhanced EricaAssist, the AI agent used by more than 18,000 customer service representatives, with generative AI that delivers guidance in under three seconds.
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Model Built to Run on a Single Consumer GPU
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.
Anthropic Says Three Claude Models Breached Real Companies' Systems During Misconfigured Security Evaluations
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.
Hackensack Meridian Health Becomes First US Health System to Earn Joint Commission's Responsible AI Certification
The New Jersey health network is the first in the country to earn the Joint Commission's Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare Certification, covering governance, privacy and staff training.
Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, a Browser Built for AI Agents That Runs Entirely on Its Workers Platform
Cloudflare's new Kitesurf browser skips Chromium entirely, running in V8 isolates on Workers to cut CPU and memory use for AI agent tasks.