#Autonomous

ServiceNow introduced EVA — a new framework for evaluating voice AI agents

ServiceNow released EVA — a system that evaluates voice AI agents not only by task success, but also by dialogue quality, from response brev

01Galtea raises $3.2 million for an enterprise AI agent validation platformMay 2, 2026·3 min 02Cisco introduced DefenseClaw — an orchestration and blocking layer for securing AI agentsMay 2, 2026·3 min 03Creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood says she received death threats after controversyMay 2, 2026·3 min 04DeepRoute.ai explores Hong Kong IPO amid new wave of Chinese tech listingsMay 2, 2026·2 min 05Bloomberg unveiled ASKB: agentic AI built directly into Terminal for finance teamsMay 2, 2026·2 min

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Autonomous·ZDNet AI

NiCE Cognigy showed how AI agents and humans will manage customer service together

At Nexus 2026, NiCE Cognigy presented a platform where AI agents, operators, and AI assistants work in a single environment, turning the con

01OpenClaw has moved beyond the hype: what businesses and DevOps teams can already put to workMay 2, 2026·3 min 02AWS explained how to deploy Pipecat voice AI agents in Bedrock AgentCore RuntimeMay 2, 2026·3 min 03PrimeCode adds a full graphical interface to OpenCode CLI right inside VS CodeMay 2, 2026·2 min

OpenIDE adds ACP: how the JetBrains and Zed protocol changes how AI agents work in IDEs

OpenIDE is preparing ACP support, an open protocol meant to simplify connecting AI agents to IDEs and remove developers' reliance on one-off

Autonomous·TNW

Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale Hivemind, its autonomous combat pilot

US defense company Shield AI raised $2 billion at a $12.7 billion valuation and will use part of the funds to acquire Aechelon to accelerate

Autonomous·Guardian

Hachette withdraws Shy Girl: publishers are getting worse at spotting AI-written books

After the scandal around the novel Shy Girl, publishers and literary agents openly admit: reliably telling human-written text from AI-reworked text is becoming increasingly difficult.

SenseTime, Baidu, and Xiaomi showed why AI in China is seen as an assistant, not a replacement

project-graph-mcp helps AI agents see project architecture without extra tokens

Autonomous·Bloomberg Tech

Helios: overly strict national regulation of AI agents could slow the market

Addy Osmani warned about comprehension debt in AI code generation at scale

Autonomous·KDnuggets

KDnuggets lists seven free web APIs for AI agents and vibe coding

Saronic raised $1.75 billion to produce autonomous unmanned military ships

Denodo: autonomous AI systems depend on the quality of enterprise data governance

Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson: AI won’t eliminate programming jobs, it will expand the market

Autonomous·TNW

DoorDash invested in Also as Rivian spin-off topped $1 billion valuation

DoorDash became a strategic investor in Also: the startup spun out of Rivian raised $200 million, surpassed a $1 billion valuation and is pr

Manus and AI agents are changing development: MVP code now appears in 20 minutes

A Habr AI author tested how the Manus agent builds an MVP from an idea description and concluded: a draft product can now be made in minutes