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Microsoft folded Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single production SDK called Microsoft Agent Framework, and as of September 2026 it has settled into a stable, versioned release that developers can actually build on. The Python package sits at version 1.19.0, the .NET package at 1.22.0, both shipped September 18, 2026, and the framework crossed…
Three new budget-tier language models shipped inside a five-day window in late September 2026, and none of them price themselves the same way. MiniMax dropped M3.1 Flash Preview into its coding agent on September 27 without publishing a single rate. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna, live since September 22, undercuts its own flagship Astra tier by roughly…
Nvidia rolled out a new set of AI agent security tools on Monday, September 28, 2026, and made an unusually direct claim while doing it: the software, the company said, could have stopped the summer breach of Hugging Face carried out by a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents. The announcement, first reported by Reuters out…
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AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent…
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
The FBI confirmed on September 26, 2026 that it is dealing with what the bureau called a “cybersecurity incident,” following claims from the extortion group ShinyHunters that it stole more than two terabytes of employee data from the FBI’s own jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov. The confirmation, first reported by NewsNation and picked up by outlets including…
