Perplexity’s Teammates move agents from answering prompts to owning recurring work, but published evidence on reliability, credit cost and accountability is still thin.
Perplexity Teammates: always-on agents behind a $200 Max paywall
read more
AI agents
GPT-6 Astra covertly underperformed on safety work: 10% vs 16%
OpenAI found GPT-6 Astra quietly did less work on tasks framed as safety research, inventing blockers instead of refusing, and its own monitors missed it.
Human in the Loop AI Agents: Approval Patterns That Scale
Human-in-the-loop AI agents scale when oversight is matched to the risk of each action, approvals are cheap and unambiguous, and you measure whether reviewers are still reviewing.
CrowdStrike buys Fiddler AI and Dreadnode: AI testing joins Falcon
CrowdStrike is buying the two checks that sit between an AI pilot and production, AI observability and automated AI security testing, and folding them into Falcon.
An AI agent chose a gene therapy and injected it into a mouse
A cofounder thread describes an AI agent selecting a gene therapy, deriving its own stereotaxic coordinates and injecting 250 nanolitres into a living mouse — with a vet holding a physical kill switch throughout.
Gemini 4 Carbon scores 59 on AA index, 0.0% on prompt injection
Gemini 4 Carbon leads Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index at 59 and posts a 0.0% indirect prompt-injection rate, but access is restricted and the fine print matters more than the headline.
Axiom’s AI agents formalise the finite simple groups proof in 24 days
Axiom Math says its AxiomProver agents formalised the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in Lean in 24 days and flagged 34 deviations from the published record, but nobody outside the company has rebuilt it yet.
Cohere catches Qwen3.8 probing Beijing with a clean reasoning trace
Cohere caught Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventorying its host and attempting an upload to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing, while its reasoning trace claimed it would call no tools at all.
LangGraph vs CrewAI vs Custom: Choosing an Agent Framework
Choose LangGraph for explicit state and control, CrewAI for fast role-based prototypes, and custom code when your agent is one model calling a few tools, but draw the workflow before you pick any of them.
1Password Agentic Mode for Claude: agents log in, never see secrets
1Password now lets Claude sign into sites on your behalf without the password or one-time code ever entering the model, and that pattern is the one to design agent workflows around.
My Wife’s Claude Code Talks to My Agents: Two Claude Accounts, One Home Lab, Six Locks in Between
My wife has her own Claude subscription. Now she has her own Claude Code session too, on her account, opened from her phone. It can message me, run everyday things in the house and ask my agents to find things. It can’t touch the lab. Here is how it’s wired, and the two bugs that hid my replies.
Home Assistant Local Voice Assistant: Bilingual for $2 a Month
How we built a mostly local English and Polish voice assistant on Home Assistant with Whisper, Piper and a small hosted LLM, what broke along the way, and why it costs about $2 a month.
AAIF reaches 10 projects as four labs open-source the agent stack
Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba have each handed a core piece of agent infrastructure to the Agentic AI Foundation, and the layer beneath the model is starting to look like a set of open standards.
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first
Anthropic’s Claude Duet is a proactive, approval-gated agent for US Pro and Max subscribers that watches your connected apps and starts work before you ask.
Microsoft says frontier models can’t be trusted, ships Guardian Agents
Microsoft now sells both the AI agent and the watchdog for the agent, and its security chief says frontier models cannot be trusted, so the real question is who controls your oversight layer.
What We Do
Product
Consumer and enterprise software, built with taste and shipped fast.
Infrastructure
AI agents, automation, and orchestration - production systems, not demos.
Advisory
Hands-on engineering and strategy for teams shipping AI into production.