JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Self-Evolving Agent Framework That Treats Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution (Nvidia Research)

A new technical paper, Agentic Hardware Design as Repository-Level Code Evolution, was published by researchers at Nvidia ...

Netzilo Brings AI Agent Governance to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Netzilo extends its AI Detection & Response platform to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and other AI agent harnesses, bringing Bring Your Own Governance to the agentic workforce. CAMPBEL ...

AI Agents Are Failing To Read B2B Pricing, Study Warns

Siteline tested a Claude agent on top B2B products. When it couldn't find the prices, it often turned to third-party sources ...
InfoQ

Inside Target’s LLM-Based System for Semantic Matching in Marketing Forecast Pipelines

Target built a generative AI system to improve marketing campaign forecasting by retrieving and ranking similar historical ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to ...
The Washington Post

This agent sent models to meet Jeffrey Epstein. Now he’s trying to explain why.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had just been released from jail in 2009 when a friend suggested a possible “coming out gift”: a 5-foot-11-inch model with an “amazing” body. “I was blown away ...
Reuters

Meta enters enterprise AI race with new business agent

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the ...
techtimes

GitHub Copilot Replaces GPT-4 With Project Polaris, Ships Multi-Agent VS Code at Build

An audience member seated near a Microsoft logo listens as Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote in Seattle, ...
Microsoft

Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle

Today, developers and security teams are caught in growing tension. AI is accelerating development and introducing new issues around insecure code, opaque models, data exposure, and compliance. Add ...
VentureBeat

The AI agent bottleneck isn't model performance — it's permissions

Enterprise AI agents are stalling — not because of model performance, but because of permissioning. Every agentic workflow eventually hits the same wall: what is this agent allowed to touch, on whose ...
Microsoft

Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

By: Ahmed Awadallah, Sahil Gupta, Yash Lara, Yadong Lu, Hussein Mozannar, Akshay Nambi, Zach Nussbaum, Yash Pandya, Aravind Rajeswaran, Corby Rosset, Alexey Taymanov, Luiz do Valle, Vibhav Vineet, ...