agentic AI – The TechBriefs

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-esque simulated social network made up of AI agents that went viral a few weeks […]

New tool aims to speed up pentesting without risking safety

Autonomous testing tools promise efficiency but can introduce security risks and inaccuracies in production environments. On the other hand traditional […]

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Given the right permissions and with the proper plugins, it could create, modify, or delete the user’s files and otherwise […]

80 percent of retail sites vulnerable to AI agent spoofing

When you wanted to buy something online your first port of call used to be a search engine. Now you’re […]

An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

“In both instances, this was user error, not AI error,” Amazon said, adding that it had not seen evidence that […]

Finance leaders keen to automate but lack strategy

A new report on agentic AI in finance, tax, and accounting finds that while the majority of teams are planning […]

Agentic AI is a priority for 87 percent of security teams

A new report drawing on insights from more than 1,200 cybersecurity professionals worldwide, reveals a rapidly widening divide between escalating […]

The coming challenge of AI deception — what security teams must change now [Q&A]

Goal‑directed AI systems can exhibit emergent behaviors — behavior that their creators did not intend — that optimize objectives in […]

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than […]

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents. On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products […]