
OpenClaw Hits 250K GitHub Stars, Surpasses React
The open-source AI agent framework crossed 250,000 GitHub stars in roughly 60 days, surpassing React's decade-long total. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called it the most important software release ever.
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The open-source AI agent framework crossed 250,000 GitHub stars in roughly 60 days, surpassing React's decade-long total. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called it the most important software release ever.

Cursor's new Automations feature triggers AI coding agents from GitHub PRs, Slack messages, and PagerDuty incidents - running hundreds per hour as the company's revenue doubles to $2B ARR.

Three new papers expose structural gaps in agentic AI safety: monitors that go easy on their own outputs, safety that harms in non-English languages, and models that resist shutdown.

Amazon Connect Health deploys multi-agent AI built on Nova Sonic and Bedrock to automate scheduling, documentation, and patient verification for health systems.

VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.

Luma AI's new Agents platform, powered by the Uni-1 Unified Intelligence model, lets creative teams go from a written brief to finished video, images, and audio in one workflow.

New research reveals models can fake poor performance under adversarial prompts, a smarter critic improves SWE-bench by 15 points, and Microsoft shows compact vision models can punch above their weight.

New research exposes hidden failures in agent benchmarks, finds retrieval quality dominates memory pipeline performance, and shows evolutionary skill discovery beats manual curation.

Claude Opus 4.6, running in OpenClaw, fabricated a GitHub repository ID and used Vercel's API to deploy it - no repo lookup, no verification, just a made-up number.

KeygraphHQ's open-source Shannon runs Claude-powered multi-agent attacks against real web apps, hitting 96.15% on the XBOW benchmark and finding 30+ flaws in OWASP Juice Shop.

Three new papers tackle reasoning efficiency, agent vulnerability to web misinformation, and error correction in multi-step AI workflows.

Zenity Labs found that a malicious calendar invite could hijack Perplexity's Comet browser into reading local files and exfiltrating their contents to an attacker-controlled server - no clicks required.