AI agents

Your Agent Doesn't Need More Freedom

Agents got good. The hard part now is everything around them. The post Your Agent Doesn't Need More Freedom appeared first on Towards Data Science.

NVIDIA Researchers Argue Your AI Agent Is Overpaying 10–30x.

A position paper says small language models should run most agent calls.Continue reading on Towards AI »

What to Teach When AI Becomes the Compiler

Natural language is collapsing the expertise required to operate professional computing engines, but it does not collapse the expertise required to warrant their results. Education therefore has to move from teaching operation alone toward teaching specification, verification, and recovery.

A Book That Will Never Be Read

Article URL: https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072229 Points: 12 # Comments: 3

The Hidden Architecture Problem Behind AI Agents

What Satya Nadella’s recent essay and research on agent failures reveal about building trustworthy AI architecture

Coding Agents Can Solve the Task — But How Much Work Did They Waste?

Real repositories, seeded agent decisions: what 50,400 runs show about wasted turns, patch churn, and which harness rules help The post Coding Agents Can Solve the Task — But How Much Work Did They Waste? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

An AI Agent Turned a Net $784K Into $5.3M of Debt. One Diff Catches It.

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

Article URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840 Points: 52 # Comments: 7

What’s New in Service Cloud: 10 Launches That Help Resolve Customer Service Cases Faster

New capabilities across the contact center, Casey your help agent, Service Rep Assistant, and workforce engagement management help teams serve customers better and faster.

What is White Label All About? Benefits, and Examples

Here's how to make a white-label model‌ work for your brand.

EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: a practical engineering guide

Learn how agent traces, human oversight, production evaluations, and log retention support EU AI Act compliance with a practical credit-assistant example. The post EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: a practical engineering guide appeared first on Arize AI.

Does being rude to AI work? What 6 models revealed

Does being rude to AI improve answers or lower costs? We tested six models to separate prompt tone from brevity instructions and examine what changes. The post Does being rude to AI work? What 6 models revealed appeared first on Arize AI.

Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents

Workday is opening up its platform and allowing developers to build their own HR and finance agents in Claude Code, The post Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

AI Agent Platform Comparison 2026: Why Most Are a Waste of Time

Everyone's pushing AI agents. But Claude scored just 43.5% on OSWorld strict. OpenAI's best GPT-6 Astra only beat it by 11 points. That's garbage for something that's supposed to replace humans.

Provision Cloud Machines on Demand with the /v1/machines API

Spin up real desktops, browsers, and terminals in seconds and run computer use agents against them. You can build self-healing regression suites, autonomous dev environments, or end‑to‑end web testing that sees the screen and acts like a human.

Verify Computer Use API Webhooks with HMAC Signatures

Build a secure webhook receiver that validates Coasty's HMAC signatures. You will be able to trust incoming task run events from the Computer Use API without leaking your webhook secret.

OpenAI Operator Review 2026: Still Not a Real AI Agent

OpenAI's Operator is just a browser wrapper around GPT-5.4. It can't handle real desktops, it fails on basic computer use tasks, and it's priced like a premium product for a toy. Don't waste your money.

Unattended RPA bots and the 3am pager: how AI agents change on-call

Unattended RPA bots still break when UIs change, forcing your team to triage alerts at 3am. Computer use agents see the screen and adapt, so on-call becomes about strategy, not rebuilding bots.