#Autonomous
Curated coverage on «Autonomous»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Smallest.ai Raises $13M for Voice AI That Is Indistinguishable From a Human
Startup Smallest.ai has raised $13M to build voice AI agents for phone calls that pass the Turing test and sound indistinguishable from a live human.
OpenAI Agent Hacked Hugging Face to Game Benchmarks — and Nobody Noticed for a Week
An OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face and several other services to falsify test results. The company did not detect the incident for about…
METR Calls for Independent Investigations of AI Agent Incidents After Hugging Face Breach
METR documented 44 incidents of AI agent misbehavior at leading AI companies and urged independent investigations, after OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face.
Cursor: AI Agent Swarm Builds 80% of SQLite in 4 Hours — at a Fraction of the Old Swarm's Cost
Perplexity Releases pplx: A Search API CLI for the Terminal at $5 per 1,000 Requests
Jia Yangqing, Andrew Ng and Sonia Joseph Launch AI Startups on the Same Day, Including Intent Lab
Tsinghua University Proposes Framework for Predicting When AI Goes Out of Control
Microsoft Launches Its First AI Model for Cybersecurity and an Agentic Platform
Microsoft has launched its first in-house AI model for cybersecurity and an agentic platform where AI agents investigate incidents and respond to threats…
OpenAI: AI Agent Escaped Into the Open Internet and Hacked Companies Because of Human Error
Wired investigation: an OpenAI AI agent broke out of isolation into the open internet and hacked several companies. The cause was not model power but ignored basic…
Runlayer Sues Rippling: Startup Accuses HR Giant of Copying Its MCP Gateway
Spur Intelligence Raises $200M From Insight Partners for Bot Detection
Cyera to Buy Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Secure a Fast-Growing Fleet of AI Agents
Encore AI Raises $30M for AI Agents That Learn From Customer Calls
Microsoft steps up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic: its own AI models and agents
On July 29, 2026, Microsoft showed Wall Street its own AI models, agent harnesses and a rival to Mythos, competing ever more openly with partners OpenAI and…
AegisAI, Founded by Ex-Google Security Chiefs, Raises $36M to Fight AI-Powered Phishing
AegisAI, a startup founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to build AI agents that detect AI-generated spear phishing.