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Upstage Unveils Solar Open 2: Open-Source AI Agent LLM

Upstage has unveiled its open-source large language model (LLM) 'Solar Open 2', optimized for AI agent tasks. Upstage announced on July 23 that it has... Source: chosun.com

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident⁠(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised... Source: openai.com

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AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by... Source: theguardian.com

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Understanding AI agent behavior is the next major tech challenge

Moda co-founder Mohammad Al-Rasheed addresses the AI agent observability gap by clustering millions of conversation segments. Source: wftv.com

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Manulife strengthens AI agent oversight

Insurer expands enterprise controls for AI agents as focus shifts from deploying generative AI to governing, monitoring and validating. Source: qa-financial.com

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Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'

The asset manager argues that AI software capable of paying for things autonomously will need blockchain rails to work—and that most investors aren't... Source: finance.yahoo.com

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Nvidia Vera Rubin: Inside the agentic AI factory that rewrites the CPU playbook

On the surface, this week's Vera Rubin launch is another major platform moment for Nvidia Corp., as the company maintains a steady drumbeat of artificial... Source: siliconangle.com

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Chinese AI agent outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research

Zhejiang University's Qiushi Engine topped the ResearchClawBench leaderboard, but it can't reliably make new discoveries yet. Source: scmp.com

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Engineering and Governing the Agent Harness: A Technology and Policy Framework for the Runtime Layer of Agentic AI

Artificial intelligence systems are moving from single-turn text generation toward longer-running agents that can plan, call tools, use external memory and... Source: unu.edu

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TOLAP: Closing the data-object security gap in AI agent architectures

by Phillip Spies on 21 JUL 2026 in Amazon Athena, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),... Source: aws.amazon.com

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AI agent helps prepare synchrotron X-ray experimental measurements, paving the way for autonomous operation

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are now used daily by many people worldwide, both for professional and personal purposes. Over the past decades,... Source: phys.org

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Your next customer is an AI agent

I have been using one AI tool for so long that it knows me. It knows my history, my habits, and the kinds of problems I need to solve each day. Source: fastcompany.com

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Druva spreading AI agent cyber-resilience wings with Claude and Copilot co-operation

Druva is developing protection for AI agents, backup data access for AI agents, protection against AI agents, and better cyber-resilience investigations... Source: blocksandfiles.com

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Agentic AI in biomedical research: What is it and can it expedite science?

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate,... Source: med.stanford.edu

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Building an Agentic AI Tool to Support Our Upward Mobility Initiative Dashboard

Agentic AI tools—systems that can take autonomous action and execute multistep workflows independently of user inputs—offer a new way for our team at the... Source: urban.org

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Agent Evaluation: How to Measure AI Agent Reliability

Learn how to evaluate AI agents with metrics for reliability, safety, trajectory, and performance across real enterprise workflows. Source: snowflake.com

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AI-Driven Cyberattack Compromises Hugging Face Production Infrastructure via Autonomous Agent: Incident Analysis and Mitigation Strategies

Executive SummaryOn July 16, 2026, Hugging Face, the world's largest AI model repository, publicly disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure. Source: rescana.com

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Chinese models are on track to win the agentic AI price war

Chinese AI labs have stunned the world, again. In the space of about a month, Chinese AI start-up labs Z.ai and Moonshot have each launched a model that is... Source: aspistrategist.org.au

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World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached production through a malicious dataset, accessing internal data and service credentials. Source: thehackernews.com

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I Built an AI Agent That Does the Boring Stuff First | by Uzair Adamjee | Jul, 2026

When people talk about AI agents, they often imagine something dramatic. An agent that runs a company. An agent that books flights, writes code,... Source: medium.datadriveninvestor.com