WordPress.com expanded its Model Context Protocol integration to give AI agents write access across posts, pages, comments, media, and taxonomy - 19 new operations, all requiring explicit user confirmation before execution.
Federal prosecutors indicted Supermicro's co-founder and SVP along with two associates for smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI accelerator servers to China using fake hardware and stripped serial numbers.
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline rewrites in search results - not pulling from existing page elements, but creating entirely new titles that can change the meaning of articles.
Three new papers expose a gap between what AI models know and what they do - and why that gap is harder to close than anyone assumed.
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has laid out a two-stage plan to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2026 and a full AI researcher by March 2028, backed by $1.4 trillion in planned compute spending.
An internal Meta AI agent posted to an employee forum without authorization, setting off a two-hour cascade that exposed sensitive internal systems to engineers who lacked clearance.
The Trump administration released a seven-point AI legislative blueprint on March 20, urging Congress to preempt all state AI regulations with a single federal standard.
Anthropic's largest qualitative study of 80,508 users across 159 countries reveals the gap between what people hope AI will do and what it actually delivers.
A developer leaked the model ID for Cursor's Composer 2: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast. Moonshot AI says Cursor violated the Kimi K2.5 license by not displaying attribution in a $2B ARR product.
A plain-English guide to how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini remember you - what gets stored, how to manage it, and what to keep private.
Every way to stay up to date with Awesome Agents - website, podcast on Spotify and Apple, social media on X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, YouTube, and RSS feeds.
A practical, step-by-step guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools as a personal tutor to learn any skill faster - no coding required.
LTX-2.3 is a 22-billion-parameter open-source video and audio generation model from Lightricks that rivals closed commercial tools - at zero cloud cost.
Mistral Small 4 packs reasoning, vision, and agentic coding into a 119B MoE under Apache 2.0 - a serious small-model contender at a price that's hard to ignore.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.
Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on computer use benchmarks - OSWorld, OSWorld-Verified, and ScreenSpot-Pro - updated March 2026.
Rankings of AI models by safety metrics including refusal rates, jailbreak resistance, bias scores, and truthfulness across major benchmarks.
Rankings of the best text-to-speech and speech-to-text AI models by naturalness, accuracy, latency, and pricing.
Anthropic's mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on computer use, leads all models on office productivity tasks, and costs five times less than the flagship at $3/$15 per million tokens.
Cohere Command A Vision is a 112B multimodal model that leads on document and OCR benchmarks, beating GPT-4.1 across seven visual understanding tasks.
Mistral AI's unified MoE model - 119B total parameters, 6B active per token, 128 experts, 256K context, configurable reasoning, Apache 2.0 license.
An OECD report reveals AI firms captured 61% of global venture capital in 2025 at $258.7 billion, doubling their share since 2022, while mega-deals above $1 billion account for half of all investment value.
Rankings of the best AI models and agent frameworks on agentic benchmarks measuring real-world task completion, web navigation, function calling, and multi-turn tool use.
CoreWeave stock plunged nearly 19% after Q4 earnings revealed widening losses, an 894% debt-to-equity ratio, and plans to spend up to $35 billion on data center expansion in 2026.
OpenAI secured a Pentagon classified network deal with prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons - the exact same terms that got Anthropic banned from all federal agencies hours earlier.
Block CEO Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 employees - nearly half the company - citing AI tools as the reason, then predicted the majority of companies will make similar structural changes within 12 months. Wall Street rewarded him with a 25% stock surge. The evidence says he is wrong.
Awni Hannun, the Stanford-trained researcher who co-created Apple's MLX machine learning framework, announced his departure from Apple. His exit is the latest in a devastating exodus of AI talent that has hollowed out Apple's ML research bench over the past year.
President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.
OpenAI terminated an employee for using confidential company information to trade on Polymarket, the first confirmed firing of its kind at a major AI lab. An Unusual Whales analysis of on-chain data found 60 suspicious wallets and 77 positions tied to unreleased OpenAI products.
A State Department cable signed by Secretary Rubio directs U.S. embassies worldwide to oppose data localization mandates, calling the EU's GDPR 'unnecessarily burdensome' and framing unrestricted cross-border data flows as critical AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek has denied Nvidia and AMD pre-release access to its upcoming V4 model while granting Huawei and domestic Chinese chipmakers a multi-week optimization window, signaling a strategic pivot toward building a parallel AI software ecosystem on Chinese silicon.
Three new papers tackle agent reliability through formal contracts, active knowledge acquisition for memory systems, and provably stable mechanistic interpretability.
A hands-on review of Aider, the open-source terminal-based AI pair programming tool with git-native workflow, architect/editor mode, and support for 100+ languages across any LLM provider.
