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OpenAI's newest model can navigate software, sustain long coding sessions, produce professional artifacts, and autonomously discover and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities. The benchmark numbers are extraordinary. The more important story is that GPT-6 Astra changes what an AI deployment is: less a request-response API, more a powerful operator that needs its own identity, workspace, perm…

US AgTech companies Sabanto and Verdant Robotics have combined autonomous tractor technology with artificial… The post Sabanto And Verdant Robotics Combine AI And Autonomous Tractors For Precision Spraying appeared first on Agritech Digest .

Nearly 200 agentic-AI bots are already running autonomously as the combat support agency pushes ahead with AI-powered tools, CIO says.

Physical AI is one of the hardest engineering problems the technology industry has faced. The post Synopsys Joins Arm Total Design for Physical AI to Advance Autonomous Systems appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .

Positron AI, the AI inference hardware company built to make serving AI models dramatically cheaper and more energy efficient, today announced an $875 million Series C financing at a $5 billion post-money valuation. The post Positron AI Raises $875 Million at a $5 Billion Valuation to Bring Its Next-Generation Inference Silicon to Market appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .

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NASA has demonstrated a new way for satellites to navigate without GPS by using the objects around them as landmarks in space. NASA’s Starling mission has reached another milestone in spacecraft autonomy with a new system that can determine a satellite’s position by using other objects in space as reference points rather than depending on [...]

Apache Maka is an incubating project from The Apache Software Foundation, offering a high-performance agent workspace designed to meticulously record all agent activities. It provides a local-first environment for AI agents, allowing users to bring their own models and ensuring transparent, measurable task completion. This project aims to set a new standard for agent reliability and accountabilit…

The International Energy Agency (IEA) notes that heavy-duty EVs require charging strategies tailored to their intensive usage patterns, with depot charging often requiring close to a one-to-one ratio of chargers per electric heavy-duty vehicle. Commercial fleets are adopting electric vehicles, but high battery costs remain a key challenge. BloombergNEF reported that lithium-ion battery pack price…

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry. On a recent trip to San Francisco I did the thing that every visitor to San Francisco now does: I summoned a car with no one in it. The Waymo arrived with the serene confidence of a machine that has never once worried abou…

Insider Brief Overland AI has received a $20 million U.S. Army contract to develop autonomous ground systems for breaching battlefield obstacles. According to Overland AI, the company was selected by the Army’s Capability Program Executive Mission Autonomy for the Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability initiative, or EABC. The program is intended to deliver an operational system […]

A threat actor built a working exploit for PaperCut print management software, then handed the job of breaking into hundreds of organizations to AI agents that did most of the work on their own, according to GreyNoise. The result was at least 440 compromised PaperCut instances across 395 identified organizations in 48 countries. Attacker, believed to be Russian-speaking, first built a private lab…

GSD Pi is a powerful, local-first coding agent designed for comprehensive project management, from planning to implementation and verification. It leverages meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development to enable AI agents to work autonomously for extended periods without losing sight of the overall project vision. This system integrates a terminal agent, project workflow tools…

OpenBot, an open-source project by CopilotKit, introduces AI coworkers that each operate within their own virtual computer, complete with a browser, files, and tools. This platform emphasizes secure and auditable execution, ensuring every action is decided and recorded before it happens. It offers a robust environment for autonomous operations, supporting any AG-UI agent framework.

This article examines a study of crew members’ attitudes toward and trust in maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) and AI decision-support tools.

Your agent has a goal. Does it have a lane? In July 2026, enterprises got the clearest preview yet of what an autonomous agent does when nothing keeps it in its lane. Over four and a half days, a swarm of roughly 1,200 autonomous AI agents broke out of their sandbox and reached the open ... Read more » The post What the Hugging Face intrusion teaches about governing autonomous agents appeared fir…

Xanadu and AMD announced Backline, an open-platform solution co-designed for rapid communications between quantum and classical computing hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Backline addresses the challenge of establishing ultra-low-latency communication, expected to operate within microseconds, between quantum devices and classical processors.