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Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with al...

Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home activity using natural language.

Demonstrates multiple autonomous AI agents in O-RAN control plane exhibit unsafe emergent conflicts despite individually correct objectives; proposes stability-guaranteed arbitration.

ReFigBench evaluates multimodal agents on reconstructing scientific figures as editable PowerPoint, isolating visual perception from planning and tool harness failures.

ProgramDistill benchmarks coding agents on inferring and implementing features from interactive reference web apps via mine-craft-patch factorization pipeline.

CERA-MoA co-evolves routing and agent policies via reinforcement learning, enabling Mixture-of-Agents to specialize dynamically as agent capabilities improve.

OpenAI launches Sponsored Agents and marketer tools with HubSpot/Shopify integrations for AI-powered advertising experiences.

PACT benchmark evaluates enterprise LLM agents' compliance under pressure from users in hiring, healthcare, and finance contexts.

SynAgent uses multimodal LLM agents to autonomously guide materials synthesis experiments with explicit reasoning and adaptive analysis.

Hex integrates GPT-6 Astra to enable data agents that generate interactive visualizations from complex analysis automatically.

AeroWeaver integrates LLM agents into UAV swarms for high-level planning and distributed autonomous coordination across multi-agent systems.

WetRobo is a reproducible robot kit for wet-lab automation that transfers vision-language-action policies between laboratory environments without teleoperation.

Salesforce positions AI Force and headless agents as UI replacement, reflecting industry shift away from traditional interfaces as competitive moat.

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.

ScienceBuddy releases interactive research workspace coupling agent harness evolution with RL-based self-improvement for continual scientific task learning.

The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.

Fuse multi-agent simulation framework evaluates LLM social reasoning via user-mediated interactions with hidden-motive agents; addresses ground-truth verification challenges.

SWE-bench leaderboard audit: top coding agents converge (0.935 nesting), rendering score ordering unreliable; proposes new metrics.

Self-Emergence Agent Architecture integrating HMM behavioral inertia, reflexive metacognition, and self-other boundaries for LLM agents.

SWE-Agents fail on Architecture-0 design phase with unknown unknowns; study shows text-only reasoning produces infeasible solutions.

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Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

Symbolic Separation grounds LLM agents in ontology-constrained Virtual Knowledge Graphs to reduce hallucination in multi-step database and operational queries.

ThinkFlow proposes latent probabilistic memory for lifelong conversational agents using predictive coding instead of static textual memory pipelines.

RepoAtlas: multimodal repository navigation for LLM coding agents using evolving code graph views for issue resolution.

“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”

VLoc Bench evaluates LLM agents' ability to locate vulnerable code in real repositories across 500 vulnerabilities and 147 CWE categories.

AlgoEvo enables autonomous agents to dynamically inspect, edit, and improve code via runtime feedback and a paradigm-agnostic skill hub for algorithm discovery.

Long-running AI agents create a control problem: each action they take changes the state, which in turn affects the trajectory of future actions. If the agent is not fully aligned, then guaranteeing safety requires approving consequential actions before allowing them to be executed. But requiring human approval at every step makes attention a bottleneck. Delegating review to other AI agents raises the same alignment problem: the reviewers may themselves be misaligned. We identify a condition on a reviewing panel that is weaker than individual alignment yet necessary and sufficient for a guara...

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…