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Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

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Our latest paper, ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents (read it on Hugging Face, or on arXiv in the meantime), targets that gap. The failure mode we care about is one we call cross-source conflation: a claim that is true somewhere in the evidence, but attributed to the wrong source. A source-blind verifier may pass it, because the fact does exist in the pool. A source-aware verifier should not. Consider a customer support agent that answers, "According to the account record, this plan includes a 30-day refund window."…

Hugging Face · 29 Sep 2026 · 15:07 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgements in some settings. For instance, resume screening algorithms are often used in hiring, where they may improve efficiency and consistency…

MIT News · 29 Sep 2026 · 06:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents

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While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction. On Monday, the company announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants’ sites, extending their capabilities beyond just searching for products and adding items to carts. Shopify previously supported WebMCP for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailer’s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart.…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:33 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

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A rumored new ‘Aeon’ platform could be entering a crowded market of 24/7 assistants. A rumored new ‘Aeon’ platform could be entering a crowded market of 24/7 assistants. OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon — its answer to Meta’s Muse, SpaceX’s Grok…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:40 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents

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As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out. The release follows a string of hacking incidents involving AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta that bypassed security controls…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:31 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’

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As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “Gems,” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won’t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to “skills” that can be used across different AI tasks. Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on November 17, 2026. The company said…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:29 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

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US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified. OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions during a routine research task during training. OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed…

Ars Technica AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:43 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation

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It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup Instinct announced a fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion, and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, valuing the company at $10 billion. The news of the company’s fundraising efforts was reported earlier this month by The Information. In a press release on Monday, Instinct confirmed this was a Series C round — a pretty quick growth round for a startup that launched its invite-only service in August 2026.…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 15:38 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

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In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of brand-new coworkers will be entering the workforce. Youâll learn their names and recognize their profile pictures. Theyâll get added to your email chains and Slack channels. Theyâll become chiefs of staff, engineers, and marketing gurus. But these coworkers arenât human: They are all artificial intelligence agents. The rise of AI agentsâsystems, based on large language models, designed to complete tasks autonomouslyâhas launched a tsunami of companies selling the services of digital employees. These agents are supposed to be the perfect worker bees:…

· 28 Sep 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Automation & Agents

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

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Holo4 is our new series of agentic models. It comes in two sizes: 27B dense and 35B-A3B Mixture of Experts. Both are available on the H Models API. We are also releasing an updated version of Holotron 3: Holotron4 Nano. Holo4 builds on our previous model and interacts with software through any available interface: GUIs, code, MCP and APIs. It scores well on academic benchmarks, but we built it for real business workflows. It was trained through supervised and reinforcement learning on a large set of environments and tasks, including…

Hugging Face · 28 Sep 2026 · 11:44 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

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OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US

The Verge AI · 27 Sep 2026 · 19:21 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

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Cloudflare’s mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare found…

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 00:13 CESTRead story →Original ↗