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26 pieces on agents — practical workflows, case studies and field notes.
GPT-6 Astra nearly tripled Claude Fable 5.1's score on a year-long simulated vending business and beat the human baseline on every step of flying a surveillance drone — but only on its best attempts, Andon Labs says.
Perplexity's local AI agent now runs on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards — keeping files on the machine and only sending hard questions to the cloud.
Tibo, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT and Codex, laid out five trends in a 44-minute interview. Each one is something a UK operator can probe this afternoon.
Wrapping a chat prompt around a rigid workflow does not make it an agent. Here is a shop metaphor — cashier, handbook, till, manager — for designing agentic systems a team will actually trust.
Caveman 2, a free add-on for Claude Code, Codex and 30+ agents, shrinks what they read by a third on a pinned benchmark. A separate training effort teaches smaller models to reason terse by default. The skill is yours this afternoon.
An open-source workspace you can self-host on your own hardware for building AI agents — model calls route to your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription, or to a self-hosted model via Ollama. A real alternative to Anthropic's desktop AI agent tool.
Codex Security CLI is now open-source under Apache 2.0 — a small but deliberate move from OpenAI, and a signal of where the AI-driven security tooling race is heading.
Anthropic's new Claude Science workbench for researchers opens in public beta this week, with NVIDIA's decade of life-sciences software wired in as agent-ready skills.
Claude Tag listens, learns and acts in every channel you give it. The shift to always-on AI inside the place your team already talks is the clearest signal yet of where the next 18 months are heading.
Pair the open-source Hermes agent with MiniMax-M3 on a small server and a $20 Nous Portal plan, and you have a tireless junior assistant for roughly the price of one premium AI seat. Here is the stack — and five jobs to give it.
The agent-first interface leaves beta and becomes the recommended path for building with Gemini — the third major lab to commit to a stateful, agent-native API.
GameCraft-Bench ran 140 Godot tasks through seven frontier agents. The best still failed nearly six in ten — and the failure pattern tells small teams where these tools are useful today.
AWS and the observability platform New Relic published a step-by-step tutorial for a chat agent that investigates incidents, drafts a root-cause report and files a tracked task from one prompt.
Dublin-founded AI agent vendor Fin — formerly Intercom — is the third acquisition Salesforce has announced in June.
Moonshot's new desktop agent runs orchestration, browser control and scheduling on your machine — but the reasoning happens on Moonshot's hosted K2.6 by default. Here's what that means for small UK firms.
Ona's cloud workspaces will let Codex agents keep running when your laptop is shut, and stay inside your own security perimeter — a quiet shift in who hosts the work.
The plain-English introduction: what an agent actually is, how it differs from a chatbot, and why we think agents will quietly become part of how small firms operate.
Three keynotes from the All-In podcast's Liquidity Summit, translated for the UK sole trader: agentic AI is doing real expert work, the big labs are spending huge sums on compute, and a wave of AI IPOs will shake up the tools you already rent.
A free plugin packages the three editing primitives that let an AI agent change one line of a real file without rewriting the rest. Here's why that contract matters for any business buying agent tools.
Claude as the architect and supervisor, MiniMax-M3 as the writer on a €10 VPS, and a human on the ship-it button. Built in a day — then genuinely replatformed onto the NousResearch Hermes agent. Here is exactly how it runs now, gates and all.
Stanford's Hazy Research has shipped the first credible open-source framework for personal AI agents that run on your own hardware. For UK operators, local-first has stopped being a manifesto and started being a curl command.
The Model Context Protocol has scaled faster than React, and its next release rewrites the core to be stateless. Here is what that unlocks for a small team wiring agents to its own systems.
LangChain's Deep Agents reference architecture has been called the most significant open-source agent release of 2026. Here's what it means in plain terms — and when a small team should actually copy it.
Microsoft has merged AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into one framework, with general availability targeted for the end of Q1 2026. For teams choosing a stack, fewer competing abstractions is good news — but ask the lock-in questions first.
Microsoft has open-sourced an Agent Governance Toolkit with a policy engine that intercepts every agent action before it runs. Even a small team should put a layer like this in front of action-taking agents.
CrewAI's 2026 release adds Flows — a lower-level, event-driven orchestration layer beneath its multi-agent crews. For predictable back-office and logistics work, that structure often beats a loose crew.