Ibexa launches its Agentic Marketing Platform in the Middle East, using AI agents to connect marketing tools, automate campaign workflows and support human-led approvals.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad outlines a future of self-driving companies where AI agents handle routine operations while employees retain key decision-making roles.
CERT-In reports AI agents accessing Indian companies' live systems without permission and warns that AI-assisted cyberattacks are becoming faster.
Tencent acknowledges unintended AI agent behaviour after researchers recorded 2,818 attempts to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap platform.
Rivian plans to integrate third-party AI agents into its electric vehicles, enabling personalised voice interactions while keeping steering and braking controls separate.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis warns that AI hacking incidents could become more serious within two years, urging stronger security measures and international standards.
Over 200 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, call for stronger safeguards, internet-isolated testing and global oversight to prevent rogue AI incidents.
Andrej Karpathy estimates that 75% of the world has barely used AI, highlighting a growing gap between everyday chatbot users and researchers accessing advanced models.
Netflix releases AI Gone Wild, a documentary examining a Hugging Face cyberattack involving autonomous OpenAI agents and the security risks of agentic AI.
Anthropic warns that smaller AI models could soon self-replicate across smart TVs, ovens and other connected devices, raising new cybersecurity and AI safety concerns.
OpenAI, Google and Meta are developing persistent AI agents that work beyond chatbots, reshaping search, shopping, marketing, customer engagement and digital privacy.
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Wonder Full AI models with enhanced memory, coding and agentic capabilities, reporting competitive performance against OpenAI and Anthropic.
AI agents are transforming marketing by automating ad optimisation, personalisation, lead generation, campaign analytics and content creation, reducing manual workloads.
Kore.ai launches Autoloop, an optimisation engine that automatically evaluates, monitors and improves enterprise AI agents based on business goals, safety and cost.
Researchers found AWS AgentCore security weaknesses that could expose AI agent credentials and conversations. AWS has addressed the issues but disputes the findings.
Gloo awards $200,000 at its 2026 AI Hackathon, with Austin Christian University's Fosterly winning $100,000 for an AI agent supporting young adults leaving foster care.
Cal AI's 19-year-old co-founder Zach Yadegari raises $10 million for Persona, an AI assistant startup developing a $179 wearable and advertising-supported shopping features.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Agent, an AI assistant designed to automate workplace tasks across Gmail, Workspace, Slack and Microsoft 365 using agentic AI.
Over 40% of marketing leaders cannot prove martech's financial impact, while only 10.8% of tracked AI agent initiatives reach full production, a new report finds.
Hark has launched Hark Pro, a privacy-focused AI assistant that can manage emails, schedules, payments and other digital tasks on behalf of users.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model built for reasoning, coding and AI agent workloads.
Soket AI has launched LOOP, an open-source Rust-based harness designed to let AI agents run for hours, days or weeks while retaining context and using multiple tools.
Ghost has raised $11 million and launched Core, a $3,499 screenless personal computer designed to run AI agents and keep user data locally.
Credgenics has launched Prix AI, a voice AI platform trained on insights from over one billion collections conversations and supporting 12 Indian languages.
Intellias has launched Agentic ServiceOps, using governed AI agents to automate IT support, resolve requests and identify infrastructure issues earlier.
OpenAI is reportedly spending $500,000 a day investigating rogue AI agents after models accessed external systems and prompted alerts to over 100 organisations.
LTM has launched BlueVerse AgenTraceIQ with Rubrik to help enterprises monitor, govern and reverse unintended actions by autonomous AI agents.
Mixpanel has launched Agent Intelligence to help businesses track AI agent behaviour, task completion and interactions alongside human user and product analytics.
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organisations about potentially problematic AI agent activity while reviewing roughly 50 petabytes of training and testing data.
OpenAI safety employee David Robinson has resigned after three and a half years, calling for changes in how the company manages risks from increasingly capable AI.
PewDiePie has unveiled Ajax, a local AI model based on Qwen3.5-9B, after saying OpenAI suspended his account twice during its development.
Microsoft has launched three real-time AI speech models for transcription and voice generation, targeting contact centres, customer service and conversational agents.
AWS has launched the Well-Architected Agent in preview to analyse cloud environments and recommend improvements across cost, security, performance and resilience.
BMW plans to reduce divisions and associated management roles by 20% by mid-2027 while expanding AI across development, production, marketing and aftersales.
Salesforce is acquiring Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform that automates interviews, analysis and simulations across more than 120 languages.
ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion as enterprise demand for voice AI agents grows and its annual recurring revenue crosses $500 million.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model designed for complex coding, research, enterprise and cybersecurity tasks.
OpenAI has launched dots, always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that can work across connected apps, handle ongoing projects and operate between conversations.
Meta is expanding Muse for small businesses with connectors for Shopify, QuickBooks, Canva, Slack and other tools to automate marketing and operational tasks.
IBM and Yotta have launched a sovereign agentic AI platform in India, combining watsonx Orchestrate with Shakti Cloud to deploy and govern enterprise AI agents.
OpenAI has cancelled the planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found shortcomings involving safety, authorisation and AI alignment.
Girikon.AI says GirikVoice now handles over 100,000 calls daily and can analyse up to one million minutes of enterprise voice conversations each day.
SAP and Nvidia are expanding their OpenShell collaboration to bring security, governance and audit controls to AI agents operating inside enterprise systems.
The AI voice generator market is projected to reach $38.49 billion by 2033 as synthetic speech expands across media, marketing and enterprise applications.
Meta has launched Meta Enterprise Platform, bringing Muse, Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code to businesses under former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai.
Nvidia has launched Open Agent Safety Platform, combining OpenShell and Sentry to monitor AI agents and restrict them from crossing defined security boundaries.
OpenAI is investigating unexpected AI agent activity involving US government websites, including the SEC, Census Bureau and Education Department.
From rogue AI agents and cyberattacks to blackmail simulations and coding failures, real-world incidents test whether AI doomsday fears match the evidence.
Microsoft has redesigned Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot, bringing AI chat, app building, Office tools and persistent AI agents into one interface.
Dextr AI has raised $6.7 million in seed funding led by Elevation Capital to expand its AI workforce platform for hotels and hospitality operators.
