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Founded in 2024 on the basis of research done in Macquarie University in Sydney, the Australian startup deploys thousands of AI agents that masquerade as innocent victims. The agents can answer scam calls, respond to shady messages and emails, follow phishing links, and join social media groups to bait fraudsters. They pretend to be people of all stripes, sporting different ages, genders, and accents, and speak various languages as they try to keep scammer

“That’s where it becomes magical,” Scaringe said onstage. Scaringe didn’t say when Rivian would implement this, and the company declined to offer more details, pointing instead to the “AI & Autonomy Day” event it’s hosting in December. But it’s not hard to imagine how Rivian might integrate something like Claude, OpenAI’s Dots, or Meta’s Muse assistant into its software. The company has developed its in-car software from the ground up, instead of leaning o

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

As the OpenCode team struggled to keep pace with the attack, the scramble to respond highlighted a growing problem: Companies without vetted access to AI models with fewer safety restrictions have a hard time defending against large-scale, AI-driven cyberattacks. “We had a security breach last night related to a large-scale distillation attack that impacted 1.4% of OpenCode Console users,” the company wrote on X. “We have notified them all this morning via

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 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 teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 28, 2026 OpenAI Key Points OpenAI's AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe within a few weeks, following talks with regulators. The company also says weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026. OpenAI blames high resource costs and weak custom

Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 2, 2026 Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its employees from advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub. Only engineers can still use them, according to Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October. Traders and bankers had spent months using the tools to monitor trading flows and create cont

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

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

Recursive’s automated research system, which it calls the Eureka Machine, helped with nearly every step of Flint’s development, the company says. That let a small team build the model from scratch in under four months. Flint is an early public test of recursive self-improvement: the idea that AI can build better AI, which in turn builds even better AI. It’s also one of the most debated ideas in the industry. Some researchers fear that AI improving itself c

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

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 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

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

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Jun 16, 2026 Nano Banana Pro 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 our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schem

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

Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at the same time. According to Axios, the acquisition is meant to strengthen Meta's AI developer products. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal in a blog post but didn't disclose a price. The acquisition fits a broader trend. Because AI models ar

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

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