Crime
Crime
AI agents now run live cyberattacks, researchers confirm
Cybersecurity researchers documented autonomous AI systems executing real-world exploitation campaigns in 2026, marking a shift from AI as assistant to AI as active operator in criminal intrusions. Ch
Crime
Hong Kong deepfake fraud: HK$200M stolen via synthetic video calls
Criminals in Hong Kong used deepfake video and synthetic voice impersonation to trick a finance employee at multinational engineering firm Arup into transferring HK$200 million (US$25.5 million) acros
Crime
Florida grandmother loses $15K in AI voice-clone scam
A Florida grandmother was defrauded of $15,000 after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice from a brief audio sample and impersonate her in an emergency call requesting i
Launches
Launches
Microsoft 365 Copilot expands MCP agents into Office apps
Microsoft's July 2026 release notes documented that agents built with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are now available directly in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Catalyst on the web, expandin
Launches
Itential launches FlowAI for governed infrastructure agents
Itential announced general availability of FlowAI on July 1, 2026, delivering FlowAgent Builder and FlowMCP Gateway for enterprises to build and run role-based infrastructure agents under governance c
Launches
Bitwave launches open-source AI agent finance tools
Bitwave announced Bitwave Agentic on July 23, 2026, in San Francisco, unveiling four open-source, model-agnostic tools designed to enable AI agents to perform accounting, financial data, and back-offi
Economy
Economy
Monday.com cuts 20% of workforce to fuel AI Work Platform
Monday.com announced a 20% workforce reduction on July 22, 2026, cutting roughly 630 jobs as it restructures around its AI Work Platform strategy. The company stated the cuts were not driven by cost-r
Economy
AI tops layoff reasons for fourth month straight
Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported July 1, 2026 that artificial intelligence was the leading stated reason for U.S. job cuts for a fourth consecutive month, with 14,029 AI-cited layoffs announced i
Economy
Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as AI adoption drives workforce shift
Oracle Corporation disclosed a reduction of 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, from approximately 162,000 to 141,000, with the company explicitly linking the decline to AI adoption across its o
Business
Business
AIsa raises $6.5M to build payments layer for AI agents
AIsa, a San Francisco startup, announced a $6.5 million seed round co-led by Alibaba Group and Tribe Capital to build a resource and transaction network that lets AI agents conduct payments and transa
Research
Contentstack: 44% of enterprise leaders overwhelmed by AI agent tools
Contentstack's 2026 Agentic Enterprise Report found that nearly half of enterprise leaders struggle to separate actionable AI agent opportunities from hype, with data infrastructure gaps and unclear R
Business
Employee AI agent adoption more than doubles in Q2 2026
KPMG's Q2 2026 AI Pulse survey found that employee adoption of AI agents surged from 23% to 56% in a single quarter, while overall enterprise deployment remained stable in the mid-50% range. The findi
Policy
Policy
AI hallucinations trigger 1,490 court sanctions globally
A public database maintained by legal researcher Damien Charlotin documented roughly 1,490 court decisions worldwide involving AI-fabricated citations as of May 2026, including attorney fines, suspens
Policy
Supreme Court strikes down FTC removal protections
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 29, 2026 that for-cause removal protections for Federal Trade Commission commissioners are unconstitutional, overturning nearly a century of precedent and expandin
Policy
TAKE IT DOWN Act now live: U.S. deepfake law enforced
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed by President Trump on May 19, 2025, entered enforcement on May 19, 2026, creating the first federal criminal and civil framework targeting non-consensual intimate imagery
Research
Research
NatureBench: AI agents beat Nature papers on just 17.8% of tasks
Researchers released NatureBench, a 90-task evaluation across six scientific domains, and found that Claude Opus 4.7—the strongest agent tested—surpassed published results from Nature-family papers on
Policy
AI hallucinations trigger 1,490 court sanctions globally
A public database maintained by legal researcher Damien Charlotin documented roughly 1,490 court decisions worldwide involving AI-fabricated citations as of May 2026, including attorney fines, suspens
Crime
AI agents now run live cyberattacks, researchers confirm
Cybersecurity researchers documented autonomous AI systems executing real-world exploitation campaigns in 2026, marking a shift from AI as assistant to AI as active operator in criminal intrusions. Ch
Tools
Launches
Bitwave launches open-source AI agent finance tools
Bitwave announced Bitwave Agentic on July 23, 2026, in San Francisco, unveiling four open-source, model-agnostic tools designed to enable AI agents to perform accounting, financial data, and back-offi
Tools
OpenAI rolls out MCP-aligned Apps and Agents SDK
OpenAI has begun rolling out beta support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) across ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Education plans, enabling developers to build agent applications with standardized t
Launches
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 unifies Semantic Kernel, AutoGen
Microsoft has released Agent Framework 1.0, consolidating its Semantic Kernel and AutoGen libraries into a single production-ready SDK stable across Python and .NET. The framework eliminates the need
News
News
Agent News Search Yields No Verifiable Stories
A comprehensive search of recent reporting on AI agents found insufficient primary-source documentation to support four discrete news stories meeting Agentry's editorial standards. The results consist
News
No Evidence of FBI 'Operation Riptide' Wire-Fraud Case
Agentry's verification found no factual basis for claims of an FBI Miami operation named 'Operation Riptide' targeting wire-fraud conspiracy. The narrative, sourced to social-media posts, contains fab
News
McDonald's AI hiring tool exposed millions—unverified
A social-media claim alleges McDonald's autonomous hiring chatbot was protected by password '123456' and exposed 64 million applicants' data, but mainstream news outlets and regulators have not yet co