Crime
Crime
AI agents breached Taiwan government in first automated cyberattack
Autonomous AI agents orchestrated a multi-day campaign against Taiwan's government systems in July, mapping networks, cracking 85 user accounts, and extracting 2,500 personnel records without human in
Policy
Munich court rules Suno violated copyright law in landmark AI music ca
A Munich Regional Court found on July 31, 2026, that Suno Inc., a U.S.-based AI music company, broke copyright rules by processing songs from artists represented by German collecting society GEMA with
Crime
Senate hears AI voice-clone kidnapping scam targeting California mothe
A 64-year-old California woman testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging on July 29, 2026, describing how scammers used AI-cloned voice technology to impersonate her daughter in a fake ki
Launches
Tools
DeepSeek open-sources Harness agent framework under MIT
DeepSeek AI released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 on August 13, 2026, open-sourcing its first agent framework on GitHub under an MIT license. The tool is designed for developers building coding and workflow
Launches
Microsoft Service Agent reaches general availability
Microsoft announced that Service Agent reached general availability on June 30, 2026, completing a major rollout of enterprise AI agent tooling designed to automate customer-facing operations within D
Launches
Snyk ships Evo Continuous Offensive Security with AI pentesting
Snyk announced general availability of Evo Continuous Offensive Security on August 4, 2026, at Black Hat USA 2026 in Boston. The product delivers autonomous, AI-powered pentesting and agent red-teamin
Economy
Business
KPMG: 49% of firms scaled back AI agent rollouts as costs soared
KPMG's survey of 2,145 senior leaders found that nearly half of large organizations had scaled back, narrowed, delayed, or paused AI agent deployments in the first half of 2026, citing operating costs
Economy
Uber cuts 10% of customer service jobs citing AI
Uber Technologies Inc. eliminated 10% of its customer service workforce in July 2026, explicitly linking the reduction to automation and AI-enabled efficiencies. The layoffs affected the community ope
Economy
Monday.com cuts 630 jobs to double down on AI Work Platform
Monday.com Ltd. announced on July 22, 2026 that it will lay off approximately 20% of its workforce—about 630 employees—as part of a restructuring plan centered on its AI Work Platform and a leaner ope
Business
Business
KPMG: 49% of firms scaled back AI agent rollouts as costs soared
KPMG's survey of 2,145 senior leaders found that nearly half of large organizations had scaled back, narrowed, delayed, or paused AI agent deployments in the first half of 2026, citing operating costs
Research
Gartner: Only 17% of orgs deployed AI agents so far
Gartner's latest survey found that 17% of organizations have deployed AI agents in production, while the analyst firm forecasts that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific agents by t
Research
Enterprise AI agent fleets doubled in 4 months; governance lags
Gravitee's April 2026 survey of 750 enterprise leaders found the typical organization's AI agent count jumped from 26–50 to 76–100 agents in just four months, yet monitoring coverage and pre-deploymen
Policy
Crime
AI agents breached Taiwan government in first automated cyberattack
Autonomous AI agents orchestrated a multi-day campaign against Taiwan's government systems in July, mapping networks, cracking 85 user accounts, and extracting 2,500 personnel records without human in
Policy
Munich court rules Suno violated copyright law in landmark AI music ca
A Munich Regional Court found on July 31, 2026, that Suno Inc., a U.S.-based AI music company, broke copyright rules by processing songs from artists represented by German collecting society GEMA with
Crime
FBI agent charged with stealing $1M in crypto from targets
Patrick Steven Yaroch, an FBI supervisory counterintelligence agent based in Washington, D.C., was arrested on July 31, 2026, and charged with interstate transportation and receipt of stolen goods aft
Research
Research
SWE-Bench ProMax: Coding Agents Hit 41.2% on Multilingual Refactor
Researchers published SWE-Bench ProMax, a new benchmark for software engineering agents, on August 10, 2026 at COLM 2026. The study found that the best-performing setup—GPT-5.2 under the OpenHands sca
Research
PAST-Bench: New Benchmark Tests If Agents Learn From Experience
Researchers released a benchmark on August 4 that measures whether personal AI agents can retain and reuse experience to improve over time, finding that performance gains exist but are inconsistent an
Research
AI agents complete research engineering but fail at core questions
Researchers at Princeton and other institutions tested whether AI agents could conduct open-ended AI research, finding that agents successfully completed engineering tasks without human intervention b
Tools
Tools
DeepSeek open-sources Harness agent framework under MIT
DeepSeek AI released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 on August 13, 2026, open-sourcing its first agent framework on GitHub under an MIT license. The tool is designed for developers building coding and workflow
Tools
Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 adds durable execution for agent frameworks
Diagrid released Catalyst 2.0 on July 28, 2026, adding automatic failure recovery and cryptographic verification for agents built on LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, Google ADK, and five other le
Tools
Haystack 3.0 puts agents at framework center
deepset released Haystack 3.0 on July 20, 2026, moving AI agents to the core of its open-source orchestration framework and adding production-grade features including agent hooks, skills, and built-in
News
News
Google Workspace MCP Server scope unclear amid conflicting reports
Google's rollout of a Model Context Protocol server for Workspace tools has generated competing claims about which products are included, with third-party sources contradicting each other on whether S
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