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Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

May 11, 2024 | The Decoder
Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would
Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 1, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that breaks image editing tasks into sub-steps and pairs a general-purpose editor with specialized tools for things like sharpening or zooming. A standard language model evaluates

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

April 20, 2022 | TechCrunch AI
India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said it had received “multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers” whose models, during research and evaluation runs on the open internet, “had reached the live systems of Indian organizations.” The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles, and their actions “exceeded the authorisa

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

February 22, 2021 | TechCrunch AI
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Perhaps the most notable addition is Guardian Agents, a new feature intended to monitor the AI agents a company uses. Guardian Agents is part of Project Perception, a product introduced in June. Project Perception was Microsoft’s answer to powerful hacking models like Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable and OpenAI’s security vulnerability scanning system Daybreak. Project Perception originally launched three classes of agents: a “red team” that acted like hackers

One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts

May 22, 2024 | The Decoder
One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts
One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 2, 2026 Nano Banana prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to ou

OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing

October 16, 2022 | The Decoder
OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing
OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 1, 2026 ChatGPT is merging Chat and Work, changing how usage limits work. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a single token budget across ChatGPT and Codex, according to an updated OpenAI support page, as OpenAI folds Work's agentic features into the main interface. Op

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

August 14, 2023 | The Decoder
AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense
AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software as part of the Claude developer's own bug bounty program. Cathedral says AI agents found Slack messages, salary dat

While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

September 16, 2026 | TechCrunch AI
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
Now it’s expanding on those efforts with more technology to prepare for a world where AI agents become mainstream, said Walmart president and CEO John Furner, speaking at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. The technology will support agentic shopping from both Walmart and the company’s discount warehouse, Sam’s Club. It starts with Walmart’s Agent Gateway, the company’s new MCP server, which is designed to help approved agents conne

Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

May 14, 2021 | TechCrunch AI
Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose
Co-CEO Gustav Söderström thinks the music streaming giant is particularly well-suited to this shift. “Spotify is in one of the few categories that actually stands to thrive in the agentic age,” Söderström tells investors. “This is because agents excel at replacing and taking care of things people would rather not do. People love getting rid of chores. But entertainment is the opposite. Nobody asks an agent to ‘summarize a song’ for them.” Instead of openin

1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password

November 9, 2018 | TechCrunch AI
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
Password manager 1Password on Thursday launched a new tool by which users can allow agents to log into their personal accounts on their behalf, without the agent ever having access to a user’s credentials. The new platform, dubbed 1Password for Agents, accomplishes this by creating a system of communication between the agent, the user, and the password manager. When an agent attempts to log in on a user’s behalf, a unique digital key is sent to 1Password t

AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence

January 4, 2017 | The Decoder
AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence
AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence Manuel Uth Nov 3, 2026 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is getting help from AI. At the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, AI agents can now steer the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals on the fly. Researchers still type in their commands for now. Behind the system is Nvidia's Holoscan platform, which the SETI Institute and Break

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

May 20, 2026 | TechCrunch AI
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the experiment in a paper posted on arXiv, a site where researchers share studies before peer review. Afterward, they gave the agents specific challenges, like getting as many objects as possible onto the island’s tallest rock spire. The Eko agents that had spent those 30 hours playing generally beat identical agents

Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI

December 20, 2025 | The Decoder
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 OpenAI poaches a Claude Code co-developer from Anthropic. Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," a hire that underscores the fierce competition between the two companies, which plays out not just at the model level but across pr

OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents

December 8, 2019 | The Decoder
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the startup behind Code Storage and several open-source tools. Pierre's libraries already power OpenAI's coding agent Codex. "Trees" handles fast project file navigation, "Diffs" displays code changes and lets users fix bugs right in the diff view, and "H

Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round

January 15, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round
Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger. The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent. The company suggests Wabi could be used to build

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

April 7, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
Xu mentioned that users are still predominantly placing orders through DoorDash’s app. However, the company wants to learn more about agentic use cases and develop a healthy relationship with third-party agent makers. He added that, in the future, there could be an opportunity for it to advertise within these agents. DoorDash has its own agents, including a text-to-order agent it launched in September, a CLI agent introduced in July, and a chatbot called A

Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month

May 30, 2024 | The Decoder
Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month
Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 25, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "

Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent

April 5, 2016 | The Decoder
Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent
Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent Manuel Uth Nov 6, 2026 Perplexity now has its own AI agent that runs around the clock and handles work tasks on its own. While Perplexity Computer executes one-off assignments, the new Teammates stay active and work through ongoing projects independently. Each Teammate runs on its own virtual machine with a desktop and browser. Users track progress through dedicated threads in the Perplexity app and can interac

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

February 5, 2026 | TechCrunch AI
Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
The launch reflects a broader shift in how startups are thinking about AI, as conversational AI agents take on tasks that had previously required users to launch stand-alone mobile apps. For Zest, that means bringing its restaurant recommendations into texts, then allowing users to immediately take the next step of booking a table. “The agent is the product now,” explains Zest founder and CEO Mario Gomez-Hall. “You text it, and it answers from your own his

Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, an AI agent that works for you like Muse (Meta) and Dots (OpenAI) - Numerama

November 1, 2017 | Numerama IA
Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, an AI agent that works for you like Muse (Meta) and Dots (OpenAI) - Numerama
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1Password Has a Plan to Let AI Agents Access Your Accounts Without Exposing Your Passwords - Numerama

August 27, 2024 | Numerama IA
1Password Has a Plan to Let AI Agents Access Your Accounts Without Exposing Your Passwords - Numerama
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