AI agents
79 published articles
Cybersecurity
Microsoft's AI bug hunters are about to make Patch Tuesday bigger
The July 2026 Secure Future Initiative report shows MDASH, Microsoft's agentic scanner, moving from benchmarks into Windows, Azure, and identity workflows, with AI-found fixes set to make each Patch Tuesday heavier.
2026-08-15
AI Agents
When agent skills backfire, SkillProx prunes them like gradient descent
Skills were supposed to make agents smarter, but every fix they accumulate can make them dumber. SkillProx runs a proximal-gradient-inspired forward-backward loop that diagnoses, rolls back, and deletes. Result: a 3.0 point average accuracy gain over the strongest gradient-based baseline.
2026-08-14
AI Agents
Grok Bot goes after the last 10% of work most AI leaves undone
Grok Bot, xAI's new agent product, runs on its own cloud computer, signs into the tools you already use, learns workflows by watching you do them once, and finishes jobs end to end. The pitch behind it: most AI stops at 90% done.
2026-08-14
Open Source AI
Meta's 30B Muse Glimmer hits Apple Silicon first, NVIDIA support follows
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights multimodal model built for agent workloads, and Ollama shipped it for Apple Silicon the same day. DFlash makes it 1.5x to 1.8x faster on Mac hardware. NVIDIA and AMD support follow in the coming days.
2026-08-13
Terminal Security
The '$HOME' trap: AI coding agents need sandboxes, not 'allow?' prompts
Qoder's terminal sandbox blocks close to a hundred destructive agent commands every day. The cases behind those blocks explain why 'allow?' prompts fail: a project folder named $HOME, a cleanup that targeted /root, and a click that nearly cost an entire disk.
2026-08-13
Qoder Computer Use
One engineer shipped a macOS agent without knowing Swift
An engineer who could not read Swift shipped production-grade macOS software with Qoder's Computer Use. His approach: judge code by behavior, make the Agent generate its own tests, and keep every lesson in the file system so no round starts from zero.
2026-08-12
On-device AI agents
LFM2.5-2.6B: the tiny agent that outruns models 4x its size
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B fits an agentic model into 2.6B parameters and under 2.5 GB of memory, topping every instruction-following benchmark it was tested on. It runs 220 tokens/s on a laptop; coding is the one clear gap.
2026-08-12
Open source AI
Muse Glimmer: Meta's 30B agent fits under 20GB, cloud optional
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model that runs offline on a single consumer GPU. Quantization keeps it under 20 GB; a DFlash drafter delivers up to 3.1x faster decoding on an RTX 5090, and the weights are on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
2026-08-10
Open Source AI
Alibaba's biggest model coded alone for 16 days. Next week, its weights go public.
Qwen3.8-Max activates just 95 billion of its 2.4 trillion parameters, ranks second in Vision Arena, and built an agent framework in a 16-day autonomous run. Alibaba publishes the weights next week in its first open-weight flagship release.
2026-08-10
Agentic UI
Qoder Canvas: a design system built for agents, not humans
Alibaba's Qoder team argues the chat window is the wrong container for complex agent output. Qoder Canvas applies design-system thinking to agent interfaces, teaching agents to build interactive, codebase-aware artifacts instead of walls of Markdown.
2026-08-07
Enterprise AI
Forget the model race: Alibaba is automating security operations
Qwen3.8-Max grabbed the headlines, but Alibaba's real move is quieter: AI agents that run security operations inside its cloud console. We break down the SecOps Agent, the Qwen-powered fraud forensics, and the lock-in strategy behind the scores.
2026-08-06
Qwen3.8-Max open weights land next week
Alibaba's most powerful model ever is going open source
Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba's first open-weight Max-class model at 2.4 trillion parameters, hits Hugging Face and ModelScope next week. The launch reframes the open-source question: what happens when the frontier's biggest weights are free to download and test?
2026-08-06