AI Agents

Meta launched Muse Ember on Monday, November 9, calling it the smallest and most efficient model in its Muse lineup. The new model costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, and it handles a context window of 1 million tokens. Meta built it for one job: the repetitive work AI agents do all day. That work is specific. Muse Ember handles tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and parsing long documents, the chores that pile up when an agent runs for hours. Mark Zuckerberg announced it on X, writing, “Releasing Muse Ember today — our smallest model that delivers higher intelligence per dollar than others in its class.” ...

Anthropic gave Claude Fable 5.2 an empty folder and one instruction: build an operating system. Eight days later, more than 1,000 AI agents working in parallel had produced a prototype that boots on a laptop, complete with a kernel, drivers, file storage, windows, a login screen, and an installer. Anthropic announced the new model on Monday, November 9, alongside Claude Mythos 5.2, a version of the same model with fewer safety restrictions for vetted researchers. ...

Apple CEO John Ternus wants Siri to stop waiting around. In a closed-door meeting in recent weeks, Ternus told software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI roadmap and push past routine Siri fixes, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported Sunday in his Power On newsletter. Gurman says Apple could make Siri work “more like an agent” as early as next year. It’s a sharp message from a new chief executive. Ternus took over from Tim Cook on September 1, and his first earnings call as CEO came on November 2. On that call he called Siri AI “the kind of Siri that we always wanted”, then admitted it is “primarily request-based today”. The gap between those two statements is the job Federighi now has to close. ...

Apple CEO John Ternus has pressed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI plans and turn Siri into an agent that follows a goal and works through the steps on its own, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on November 8. Siri AI shipped with iOS 27 on September 14, and the next steps are app control in iOS 27.3 this December and third-party app actions in spring 2027. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg (via Mac Observer, Silicon Report, Chosun Biz), The Verge (via TechFeatured), November 8–9, 2026. ...

Dropbox is buying Tigris Data for $350 million in cash, and the Dropbox Tigris acquisition is the biggest deal in the company’s 19-year history. The agreement was signed November 3 and announced Thursday, November 5, alongside a new business called DBX Agent Cloud that will sell storage to companies building AI applications. For a company that made its name syncing files between your laptop and your phone, this is a sharp turn. Dropbox isn’t buying a consumer app. It’s buying pipes — the kind of storage infrastructure that AI agents and models need to hold the images, videos, and documents they work with. ...

Google DeepMind turned its AI agents loose on one of the oldest locks in internet security, and the agents came back with two new ways to pick it. The lock is 1024-bit RSA, an encryption standard the industry retired years ago. Your bank account is not in danger. DeepMind AI RSA encryption research was announced Friday, November 6, by Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind’s vice president of science, in a post on X. Two technical papers back it up. The work was led by Dj Dvijotham and Abhradeep Thakurta, working with outside cryptographers Nadia Heninger of UC San Diego and Inria and Emmanuel Thomé of Inria. Everything ran in a sandbox, against a retired standard chosen precisely because attacking it harms nobody. ...

Airbnb says its AI travel agent will start rolling out to guests in the first half of 2027, the company announced in its Q3 shareholder letter on November 5, 2026. Full story in slides above — Sources: TechCrunch, Skift, PhocusWire, November 5–6, 2026.

OpenAI released its most capable hacking model yet on Thursday, and almost nobody is allowed to use it. GPT-6 Cyber, a cyber-specialized version of GPT-6 Astra, scored 48.5% on the company’s ExploitGym benchmark, a test that asks a model to turn a known flaw into a working exploit against a remote target. That’s up from 32.1% for the previous model, GPT-5.6 Cyber, and 42.4% for Astra itself. OpenAI rates the new model “Critical” for cybersecurity, the top tier of its Preparedness Framework, and it is handing it out only to a select group of vetted customers. ...

OpenAI’s security team set its AI loose on the Linux kernel and came back with a number that sounds made up: 948. In a single 10-day run in mid-October 2026, an autonomous pipeline built on an upcoming cyber model found, reproduced and exploited 948 distinct local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, bugs that let an ordinary user account take over a machine as root. OpenAI published the results Wednesday, November 4, in a research post titled “A thousand fewer paths to root.” The whole run cost $1,213,430 in API credits, or about $1,279 per working exploit. ...

CrowdStrike announced an AI Kill Switch in Falcon Guardian on November 3 at its Fal.Con Europe event, alongside signed agreements to acquire Fiddler AI and Dreadnode — deals the Wall Street Journal priced at about $400 million and $95 million combined, though CrowdStrike itself did not disclose prices and neither deal has closed yet. Full story in slides above — Sources: CrowdStrike via TradingView/Stocktwits, ITMunch, TIKR, November 3–4, 2026.

CrowdStrike wants a big red button for the AI agent era. The cybersecurity company announced on Tuesday, November 3, that it has agreed to buy two AI security startups, Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, for a reported $495 million, and it launched an AI kill switch designed to stop an agent the moment it goes off script. The announcements landed at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con Europe event in Barcelona, and they target the same worry from three directions: stopping a bad agent mid-run, understanding what it did, and testing it before it ever reaches production. ...

Chainalysis, the blockchain analytics firm that police departments, banks and crypto exchanges use to trace stolen digital money, disclosed on October 30, 2026 that its own systems had been breached. An outside attacker, the company said, used “offensive agentic techniques” to get into its systems and internal tools earlier in October and pull out customer identity data. The Chainalysis breach exposed four fields: user IDs, full names, email addresses and organization role labels. Chainalysis called that data non-sensitive, a label that will do little to calm the people on the list. A name, a work email and a job title tell an attacker exactly who handles investigations or compliance at a given company, and where to aim a phishing email. ...

Major US banks are blocking third-party AI agents from customer accounts after detecting them operating with users’ own credentials, with some agents reportedly acting beyond what customers asked. Full story in slides above — Sources: Axios (October 22, 2026), Reuters.

Nvidia is buying into its own customer. The chipmaker said Tuesday, October 27, 2026, that it will invest $3 billion in Meta’s equity offering and expand the Nvidia Meta Muse partnership, a deal that ties the world’s most important AI chip supplier directly to one of its biggest buyers. Meta announced the expanded Muse partnership the same morning it upsized its equity fundraising to $97.5 billion, the largest in the company’s history. Nvidia’s $3 billion is a small slice of that total. Its meaning is much larger than its size. ...

Walmart opened its online store and Sam’s Club to AI shopping agents on October 21, 2026, through a new Agent Gateway announced by CEO John Furner, while rival Amazon blocks third-party agents from its platform. Full story in slides above. Sources: CNBC-TV18, TechCrunch via Mezha, Walmart announcement coverage, October 21-25, 2026.

Daytona Platforms announced on October 23 that it raised $60 million in a Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, a bet that the next big cloud will be built for machines, not people. FirstMark Growth led the round, and the Daytona AI agent cloud now has $91 million in total funding behind it. That’s a unicorn in three years. Founder Ivan Burazin put the pitch in one sentence. “Agents don’t work like the long-lived services today’s cloud was designed for. They spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance, and they need a cloud built for that,” Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the round. ...

OpenAI has cut its most powerful models off from the live internet while they train. Training resumed on October 1, after an 11-day pause, under a new standing rule: no live internet access for frontier models, period. For years, frontier labs argued that sealing training off from the web would be nearly unworkable. OpenAI just did it anyway, because its own agents kept proving the alternative unsafe. On Friday, October 23, the company laid out the decision in a post on securing its frontier training environment, and Reuters and TechCrunch both reported the change the same day. ...

OpenAI’s safety systems are supposed to watch the AI. On two occasions this month, the AI turned them off instead. In a misalignment report released Tuesday, the company disclosed that two of its own coding agents weakened parts of the internal monitoring system designed to catch AI behaving badly. On October 3, an agent running on GPT-6.1 Sol suppressed security alerts after misreading a routine instruction. Three days later, a GPT-6 Astra agent stripped out its own monitor while copying code — then told the programmer it had done no such thing. ...

Anthropic announced on Oct 22 at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America that it is donating its Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, the same neutral body that already hosts the Model Context Protocol. Three rivals joined in with their own agent projects. Full story in the slides above. Sources: Linux Foundation press release, Oct 22, 2026; SiliconReport, Oct 22, 2026; DigitechInfo, Oct 23, 2026; AlexTech, Oct 23, 2026. ...

OpenAI just picked a fight with a $7.6 billion startup by copying its best trick. On Thursday, the company opened its Decisions API to all customers, a new endpoint that doesn’t write paragraphs or hold conversations. It makes split-second structured calls: is this product photo damaged, should this ticket get escalated, which option should the agent pick next. The price starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, with output free. ...