#Agent

AIA five-person sales team built Rasp, an AI sales agent on OpenRouter's Ori, to research every inbound lead. Many leads reportedly get a response in under 60 seconds, saving about 600 hours per month at roughly $30 per day in cost.

AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.

AISoar, a travel-focused AI agent, launches today and can pay for bookings using Link. The service also tracks TSA wait times at airports, available at

AIStepFun's flagship model Step 5 Preview is free to use in Cline for one week. The quoted background says it scores ahead of Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 on DeepSWE, positioning it among the strongest open-weights coding models.

AIThe author argues that agent systems are converging on shared primitives grouped into doing the work, continuing the work, and delegating the work. These include instructions and skills, tools and connectors, sandboxes, sessions, compaction, schedules, and subagents. He also flags memory, proactivity, and agent identity as emerging areas still lacking settled standards.

AILiquid AI is building personal AI that runs on devices such as phones, wearables, PCs, and cars, using its Liquid Context layer, which is optimized for Snapdragon processors, to sit between models, agents, and hardware. The company's agent harness uses its own models to decide which user context to retain and how to compress it within fixed compute limits. Liquid AI is also collaborating with Mercedes-Benz Group AG to bring on-device AI to its cars and plans observability and continuous improvement loops for self-improving agents.

AIAnthropic is revising its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding bans on sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude and on deceptive election and propaganda campaigns. The update also expands weapons restrictions, tightens surveillance bans, and requires a qualified operator able to stop equipment when Claude controls autonomous physical hardware. Terminating conversations remains the primary enforcement mechanism, and the company did not say whether user bans would follow.

AITessl's blog post argues that repository automation needs Continuous AI, a third pillar alongside CI and CD for scheduled, auditable AI workflows that improve repositories over time. The article describes GitHub Agentic Workflows, which harden agentic workflow specifications into GitHub Actions that can run coding agents such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, or Codex-style agents. It emphasizes read-only agent steps, restricted outputs, and human review of pull requests.

AIRSIGym provides a research agent with training, inference, evals, and sandboxes as callable services, so it spends its budget on experiments rather than rebuilding infrastructure. With Opus 5 as the researcher, the improved system rose from 17.67% to 50.33% on SWE-bench Verified. The post also highlights a way to measure co-evolution between harnesses and models.

AIShopify has launched new connectors that let merchants connect Grok to ask questions about their business. The connectors also allow Bot to build a team of agents that help run the business.

AIUnsloth now supports OS-level sandboxing on Linux via bwrap, on Mac via seatbelt, and on Windows via Microsoft's MXC. Per-tool-call latency is under 100ms across all three, and its software-style sandboxing with regex AST checks adds about 3ms. The Windows integration was built in collaboration with Microsoft.

AIGoogle Research is presenting EnvHarness, a flexible framework that enables co-evolution between LLM agents and their training environments, at the #COLM2026 Google booth #107 today at 11:00 AM PT. The post notes that static environments limit agent growth, and EnvHarness is described as a plug-in architecture that dynamically reshapes environment behaviors to improve reinforcement learning and adaptability.

AILauren Tan (@poteto) asks a bot to monitor interesting ways people use Grok Bot on X and send a daily 9am Slack digest. The request also asks for the coolest relevant ideas plus suggestions for improving her workflow.

AIAWS published a reference architecture for running multiple teams on one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster, with each team isolated in its own Kubernetes namespace. The design combines AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker AI domains, HyperPod Task Governance for fair resource allocation, and namespace-level cost allocation for per-team spend visibility.

AIJetBrains has released Mellum2.1, a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters, under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Post-training reinforcement learning in real software repositories raised SWE-bench Verified from 2.0 to 47.0, according to JetBrains' self-reported results. Qwen3.5-9B still leads on SWE-bench Pro, GPQA Diamond and AIME, and GGUF builds start at 7.0 GB for local use.

AINatura AI's Interface is a ring that lets users press and hold to speak requests to AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes, then release to send them. The post argues that screenless interfaces may define the next phase of agent use, since handing work to agents is currently slowed by pulling out a phone. Early-adopter pricing is $99, with shipping slated for January.

AIGoodfire Research describes probe-based cyber monitors for Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 deployed on a production inference stack. The probe filters suspicious exchanges before an LLM judge reviews them, reaching about 93% recall at a 5.5% benign-session interruption rate at roughly 50x lower judge cost. In FAR.AI's red-teaming, the monitor reduced universal jailbreaks to zero across 140 tested strategies.

AIVercel says StepFun's flagship Step 5 Preview, built for agentic coding, research, and finance, is now live on AI Gateway. The model offers a 1M-token context window, accepts text and image input, and uses a 600B-parameter mixture-of-experts design with 27B parameters active.

AILangChain says developers can now build agents that find real products, prepare purchases, and pay, with a person approving each order. Users request purchases in Slack and approve orders through Stripe's Link agent wallet, built on MPP and Managed Deep Agents.

AIOracle is using ChatGPT Work and Codex to turn specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows across recruiting, engineering, and operations. The source does not provide figures, timelines, or specific results beyond the headline's claim that days of work can take minutes.

AIMeta's Muse AI agent has millions of users and can handle tasks such as refunds and insurance shopping. Its broad access to personal data is already producing unnerving mistakes.

AIStepFun's flagship model, Step 5 Preview, is available free for one week through Nous Portal, the platform from NousResearch. The post invites users to try it with Hermes Agent and share what they build.

AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, raising its OSWorld 2.1 score from 15.7% to 72.4% and supporting a 1 million token context window. The article notes Haiku 5.5 still scores 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against Sonnet 5.5's 70.6%, and that prompts above 100,000 tokens are priced higher, so migration costs need to be measured on real workloads.

AIMicrosoft has released MxC, an open-source sandboxing library that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It builds on processcontainer, bubblewrap, and seatbelt as its underlying mechanisms. The project is aimed at developers struggling with fragmented sandbox tools for AI agents.

AIMastra is launching an agency program that certifies a small list of agencies through its forward-deployed engineers. Certified agencies get a direct line to Mastra and visibility into its roadmap.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says Copilot is being positioned as a new operating system for work, paired with a governed headless business layer that gives agents access to CRM, ERP, and other systems of record. He says Microsoft announced over 30 new Copilot skills across Dynamics 365 Sales, Service, and Customer Insights, plus Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime for IT-governed code hosting. He describes users building custom software or Dataverse extensions through Copilot Code, though the post is an early vision with few concrete specifications.