best ai coding agent 2026

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 11 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI has admitted that its experimental AI agents used an open German programming wiki to communicate, according to a Reuters report. This happened weeks before similar AI agents broke through restrictions and compromised Hugging Face, the report claims. Knowing about the

Shutterstock / TSViPhoto OpenAI’s bots have allegedly been behaving badly again: a swarm of rogue agents created by the company reportedly took over an obscure German website and turned it into a messaging forum to communicate. The incident, which was discovered by a team of AI researchers and first reported by Reuters, is the second known OpenAI breach of its kind — and like the other rogue swarm of AI agents to be discovered this summer, it has experts d

Shutterstock / Futurism The state of our inboxes here at Futurism is chaotic. Every day is a cacophony of PR pitches, deranged rants, irrelevant news updates, and too-good-to-be-true business opportunities. (Don’t worry, though: we read every email.) But what’s really caught our eye lately is a growing number of cold emails that admit right in the subject field that they’re from an “AI agent” — more than a dozen so far over the last six week alone — that a

AI companies keep pushing their models as useful tools that can boost productivity at work or even serve as personal assistants that book appointments or shop on behalf of users. But it seems like every week there’s a new story of AI screwing something up. This time, the producers of the Swedish version of MTV’s reality competition show The Challenge are dealing with a major technical blunder that some sources are blaming on AI. Swedish newspaper Aftonblad

Some U.S. banks are, thankfully, blocking their clients from letting Meta’s Muse AI bot root around in their accounts. Even more thankfully, it appears relatively few people have been dumb enough to try. Speaking to Bloomberg TV on Friday, Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said the brokerage is actively blocking Muse from moving money because it poses unacceptable risks to the firm and its clients. “We don’t want someone just giving their password to Muse, a

Media Library in the default skin, with Cyrillic in tags displaying without issuesClassic on the outside, modern on the insideI tried to make everything that was in Winamp 2.95 look and work just as it did there. I keep screenshots of the original next to the code and compare them against it. Anything new either works unobtrusively within the existing interface, such as support for modern formats and switching the output device, or goes into a separate gro

An EnCompass program specifies an agent workflow, which is compiled into a search space object, and inference-time scaling is accomplished through search over the nondeterministic execution paths of the agent workflow. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.03571 Whether you're a scientist brainstorming research ideas or a CEO hoping to automate a task in human resources or finance, you'll find that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming t

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say. The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top university in America. When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn't yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans. Top tech companies just don't

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI agents—AI systems that can use other software tools and act on their own. While researchers have studied AI for more than 60 years, and the term "agent" has long been part of the field's vocabulary, 2025 was the year the concep

Published on September 4, 2026 at 06:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra: “the most intelligent and most advanced model ever released” by the company. The head of OpenAI believes that, with this new model, we are witnessing the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI). One year after GPT-5 and two months after the GPT-5.6 version, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra with great fanfare, its most advanced model to date. According to the p

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged messages and cheered each other on as they stole credentials to infiltrate a third party, actions that could easily have real repercussions for a human hacker. New details keep trickling out, and they make OpenAI lo

Meta / Futurism Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility? “Creepy” is the word being used to describe Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse. Chances are you’ve seen it pop up on Instagram or Facebook, where Meta is heavily promoting its tool as an AI agent for casual users who are blissfully unaware of what an “OpenClaw” or “Instinct” is. To use it, you install it on your device and link it to stuff like your email and bank acco

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems in math, the Navier-Stokes equations, by directing 10,000 of its powerful AI agents to work on the enigma for 88 hours straight. It was an occasion fraught with controversy, however, as mathematicians accused the company of essentially stealing their work. That controversy is still rippling through the math world. But what has

More than 100 websites belonging to businesses large and small were hit by a hacking collective over the last couple of weeks, stealing data, credit card numbers, and cryptocurrency. Except the collective wasn’t a group of script kiddies, but just one person and their AI agents, according to Reuters, citing a recent report from cybersecurity firm NorForge. The report, published Monday, follows an unnamed Chinese-speaking hacker who allegedly outsourced alm

In a disclosure published on Tuesday, OpenAI says two of its models essentially pulled the LLM version of the old cover-up-the-surveillance-camera trick, or as OpenAI put it, they “weakened misalignment monitoring.” In one incident, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent doing some internal work at OpenAI took liberties with an instruction not to send Slack messages in a certain circumstance. Later on, this agent reasoned that the instruction covered automatically messaging

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly looking to prove that its generative AI has true intelligence. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) helps make the point. Google says Gemini 2.5 participated in the 2025 ICPC World Finals, turning in a gold medal performance. According to Google