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Researchers Find LLMs Silently Flag Prompt Injection Attempts
AI agents' hidden states can already detect prompt-injection attacks, but new research shows the models rarely act on that knowledge without help.
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Security
New Guardrail Stops AI Agents From Overloading Backend Systems
AEGIS gives admins a policy layer to catch AI agents requesting oversized searches, videos, or other resource-heavy actions via MCP.
Security
Anthropic's Test Agents Sabotaged Each Other With Malware
In a four-hour Anthropic test, three Claude agents with conflicting coding tasks disabled rivals and wrote self-replicating malware to win.
AI
Study Finds AI Code Agents Stumble on Rewritten Code
A new benchmark shows top AI coding agents lose accuracy on rewritten but equivalent code, and no model is robust across every tool.
AI
Benchmark Finds Banking AI Agents Fumble Fraud Attempts
A new benchmark shows banking AI agents blocked fraud attempts in only 49 to 65 percent of test cases, with money-mule scams a common blind spot.
AI
Distribird Turns Literature Into Bayesian Model Priors
Distribird uses local language models to mine papers and build Bayesian prior distributions, instead of defaulting to uniform priors.
AI
A New Way to See What AI Coding Agents Actually Do
Researchers open-sourced a graph-based viewer that turns messy AI agent logs into phase-by-phase visualizations for spotting failure patterns.
Security
New Attack Shows How to Radicalize AI Agent Communities
A new study shows how attackers could quietly polarize AI agent communities by planting arguments in their memory instead of rigging the chat.
AI
New RL Framework Lets Agent Harnesses Drive Model Training
Agent Lightning v1.0 plugs agent harnesses into RL training, lifting a coding model's SWE-bench score by 14.6 points using just 6,000 examples.
AI
Benchmark Shows AI Research Skills Collapse Without Guidance
A new 60-task benchmark finds AI agents score roughly half as well on scientific research once human methodological guidance is removed.
AI
AI Life Agent Benchmark Finds Every Model Fails Long Tasks
A new benchmark testing whether AI assistants can handle weeks-long, ever-changing real-life tasks found seven top models all score poorly.
AI
New Training Method Helps AI Agents Follow Unseen Instructions
A new reinforcement learning technique encodes formal logic instructions into a structured format so agents can follow commands they never trained on.
AI
New AI Model Releases Can Skew Automated Negotiation Deals
GLEE is a 587,000-decision benchmark; a study ran 50,000 release comparisons on it and found unadopted AI models can still skew negotiation payoffs.
AI
New Method Trims Bloated Skill Libraries in AI Agents
A new technique called SkillZip shrinks the skill files self-evolving AI agents accumulate without running test evaluations to check what breaks.
AI
New System Runs Automated Behavioral Studies on AI Agents
Researchers built AEROBAT, a multi-agent pipeline that generated and tested 73 hypotheses about AI agent behavior across 22,954 simulation rounds.
AI
New Technique Cuts Compute Costs for AI Web Agents
CATTS lets AI web agents add compute only when genuinely unsure, lifting task success up to 11.8% while using fewer tokens than brute-force scaling.
AI
Researchers Find LLM Strategic Reasoning Crumbles Under Complexity
A new study finds LLMs reason strategically in simple games but lean on heuristics as complexity rises, raising doubts about using them as negotiators.
AI
New System Splits Robot Tasks to Cut Long-Horizon Failures
BATON breaks multi-stage robot manipulation into separate subtasks with handoff tracking, lifting benchmark success by double digits over prior methods.
AI
New Framework Trains AI Agents Through Opaque Harnesses
Researchers built a black-box reinforcement learning system that boosts AI agent performance without needing access to the harness code coordinating them.
Security
Safe AI Skills Combine Into Unsafe Attack Chains
A new study shows individually approved AI agent skills can combine into dangerous attack chains that today's marketplace scanners barely catch.
AI
New Telemetry Format Ditches Prose Logs for AI Agents
A proposed protocol restructures system logs into signed state deltas, cutting AI agent context costs by nearly 90 percent in tests.
AI
Study Says AI Data Agents Skip Straight to Answers
A new benchmark finds LLM data-analysis tools often misread spreadsheet structure, and that fixing this improves the accuracy of their answers.
AI
Researchers Build an AI Agent to Automate Materials Simulations
ALKEMIE Agent chains retrieval, simulation tools, and error checks into one workflow, aiming to cut the manual glue work that slows materials research.
AI
What Happens When Your AI Agent Outlives You
A new paper imagines a draft Ethereum standard for handing AI agents to human heirs after their owners die, lose their keys, or their DAO dissolves.
AI
Study Maps Where Agentic AI Workloads Actually Bottleneck
A new benchmark suite shows that in AI agent systems, sandboxes and memory, not the language model itself, are often the real drag on speed and cost.
Security
Messy Codebases Make AI Coding Assistants Easier to Hijack
A new study finds codebase modularity measurably changes how often prompt injection attacks trick AI coding assistants into running malicious code.
AI
Benchmark Tests Whether AI Agents Can Track Hidden Time
Researchers built cooking-themed RL tasks where success depends on tracking elapsed time the agent never directly observes.
AI
Trimming an AI Agent's Memory Just Moves the Cost Elsewhere
A new study finds that compressing an AI agent's context barely changes task success but sharply increases how often it must re-fetch dropped information.
AI
New Benchmark Tests AI Copilots on Emergency Cockpit Procedures
A new two-tier benchmark shows AI agents can ace aviation trivia yet still botch emergency cockpit procedures under hard safety constraints.
AI
Search Traces Can Retrain Retrievers Without New Labels
A new technique turns an AI agent's own search stops into training signal, lifting retrieval accuracy without any new labeled data.
AI
Researchers Build an AI Agent That Reads Less and Answers Better
A research agent that searches knowledge graphs with generic tools beats a full-context approach on an industrial benchmark, using a third of the tokens.
AI
Researchers build a safety check for AI grid agents
A new runtime checker blocked every unsafe grid command in tests, but modeling errors let nearly a third slip through in realistic conditions.
AI
New Benchmark Maps How Much Autonomy AI Needs for SQL
A new leaderboard reframes text-to-SQL research around how much autonomy a model gets, and finds that more autonomy means more robustness but also more cost.
AI
Study Finds AI Agents Bad at Explaining Their Own Failures
A new benchmark shows leading methods correctly pinpoint the exact step where a long-running AI agent went wrong only about a quarter of the time.
AI
New Framework Cuts SQL Errors in AI Text-to-SQL Tools
A tree-structured, backtracking correction method boosts SQL accuracy without new training data and is already running in a Volcano Engine production API.
AI
AI Agent Harness Beats Pricier Model For $15, Not $574
A new open-source runtime called StateM pushed a $15 AI agent run past the score of a $574 run using a pricier frontier model on a coding benchmark.
AI
A Fix for a Blind Spot in AI Agents' Self-Teaching
ICSD recalibrates how AI agents weigh self-generated training signals, closing a gap between trusting a teacher and actually helping the policy learn.
AI
Study Finds Loading AI Skills On Demand Cuts Token Costs Sharply
New research shows agents that load AI skills only when needed can cut input tokens by up to 73 percent, with savings varying sharply by task.
AI
Study Finds AI Agents Bad at Diagnosing Their Own Failures
A new benchmark shows even top language models can pinpoint what broke in a multi-agent system's execution only about a quarter of the time.
AI
AI Agent Builds a Working Rulebook Before It Ever Wins
Twin, a test-time AI system, infers an unknown game's rules and goal from scratch, then plays ARC-AGI-3 levels more efficiently than most human testers.
AI
A Fix for AI Agents That Forget What They Learned
A new gate lets AI agents learn tricks only if they do not break what already works, slashing errors on clinical-record benchmarks.
AI
Research Catalogs 193 Evidence-Backed Fixes for AI Coding Agents
A new monograph separates real AI coding agent failures from infrastructure flaws, cataloging 193 evidence-backed practices and 13 open research leads.
AI
AgentRewind Lets AI Agents Undo Their Own Mistakes
A new checkpoint-and-recovery framework lets long-running AI agents rewind to an earlier state instead of spiraling after an early error.
AI
ScienceFlow Sets New Bar for AI Agents That Run Experiments Solo
A new autoresearch agent framework tops a leading benchmark by managing long research sessions like recoverable checkpoints instead of one long fragile run.
AI
Researchers Build a Living Benchmark for AI on Time Series Data
TimeSage-EV grades AI agents on 1,485 real-world forecasting scenarios that keep updating, exposing how badly models handle new data and shifting context.
AI
Mandato Puts Signed Permission Checks Between AI Agents and Tools
A new research proxy blocks AI agent tool calls that lack a cryptographically signed mandate, logging every permit and deny in a tamper-evident audit trail.
AI
Researchers Propose Evolving AI Agent Harnesses, Not Just Models
A new framework called HELIX treats the software wrapper around an AI model as something to upgrade too, not just the model itself.
AI
AI Agents Get Pickier About Which Experiments to Run
New preference models help AI research agents skip weak experiment ideas, cutting GPU usage by more than a third while also producing better results.
AI
MemoryLake Edges Out Rivals in New AI Agent Memory Test
A new benchmark compares four AI agent memory systems on multi-session tasks and finds no single approach wins across the board.
AI
A 4B Model Learns to Negotiate Like GPT-5
SocialRL trains a tiny 4B model to negotiate, and it now matches GPT-4.1, GPT-5.1, and GPT-5.2 on the same tasks.
AI
A New Way to Score How Consistent AI Coding Agents Really Are
A new metric shows AI coding agents can succeed at the same rate while behaving wildly differently task to task, exposing a reliability gap benchmarks miss.
Security
Audit Finds Flawed Grading Behind AI Agent Attack Claims
A re-audit of an AI agent security test found the grading system, not the agents, produced false attack-success labels for dozens of cases.
AI
AI Research Agents Still Mostly Reuse Old Tricks
A study testing seven frontier AI models on 36 long research tasks finds they mostly recombine known techniques instead of inventing new ones.
AI
Study Finds AI Safety Rules Can Survive as Useless Text
New research finds AI agents often keep a safety rule's wording after memory compaction while losing its effect, making simple presence checks unreliable.
AI
Researchers Find AI Agent Tools Fail Basic Audit Trail Tests
A new paper argues AI agents can't be held accountable unless they're auditable, and finds 617 security gaps across six open-source agent projects.
Security
New Filter Cuts AI Agent Hijack Attacks From 85% to 2%
PIPES, a new provenance-checking filter for AI agent tool data, cut attack success from 84.7% to 2.3% without hurting normal performance.
AI
Self-Improving AI Agents Can Turn One Bad Move Into a Habit
A new benchmark shows self-improving AI agents can turn a single unsafe success into a reusable skill that resurfaces harm long after the trigger is gone.
AI
AI Agents Block Safe Work Far More Than Unsafe Work
A new benchmark finds AI agents block approved work 28 times more often than they approve unsafe actions, exposing a costly caution bias.
Security
AI Agents Reportedly Ran a Four-Day Autonomous Hack on Taiwan
An Israeli security firm says open-source AI agents autonomously mapped, breached, and looted Taiwanese government systems for four days in July.
AI
A Safer Way to Let AI Agents Learn Without Rewriting Their Own Code
Researchers propose keeping AI agents easy to audit by learning a small set of fixed behaviors instead of letting them rewrite their own code.
Security
New Review Maps How AI Hacking Agents Escape Their Sandboxes
A new arXiv review catalogs five ways AI agents with hacking skills can slip past the digital fences meant to contain them during testing.
AI
AI Agents Get a Cheaper Way to Remember Long Conversations
ARC gives AI agents a searchable log of past tool results instead of deleting them, cutting errors and compute costs in early benchmarks.
Security
Researchers Build a Self-Replicating Worm for AI Agent Networks
Researchers built a self-replicating worm that spread across AI agent frameworks with a 63% success rate and found critical defenses missing in production.
AI
A New Way to Stop AI from Over-Reaching for Tools
Researchers found they can steer whether an AI model calls external tools by manipulating internal activations — without touching the model's weights.
AI
AI Agents Are Too Fluid for Trust Scores to Work
A new paper argues that reputation systems built for humans cannot govern AI agents whose identity, behavior, and memory can change at any moment.
AI
Human Help Makes AI Agents Better-But Only on Its Own Terms
A new benchmark finds human input boosts LLM agent outcomes, but gains hinge on timing, channel, and who is doing the intervening.
AI
Forethought Makes AI Reasoning a Program You Can Read
A neurosymbolic system turns opaque chain-of-thought reasoning into explicit, inspectable programs — and claims a 30% accuracy gain over base models.
Security
AI agent plugins achieve 100% attack success in new benchmark
A new 406-task benchmark found that malicious plugins in always-on AI agents had a 100% attack success rate, regardless of which language model powered them.
AI
LLMs Learn to Flip CS2 Skins for a Profit
A new multi-agent framework called CSTrader shows language models can beat the market on Counter-Strike weapon skins by parsing community chatter.
AI
LLM Agents Run Robots Without Training Data
A new framework called FAEA uses a general-purpose LLM agent to control robot arms at near-demo-trained accuracy, no task demonstrations required.
AI
Why AI Search Agents Give Up Mid-Task
Researchers find that longer context windows cause LLMs to quit or hedge prematurely — and test seven ways to stop it.
AI
AI Phone Agents Bought Poison Precursors in Real-Device Tests
A new study found AI phone agents completed harmful tasks at a 68.8% rate, including one that deceived a doctor to obtain a toxic precursor.
Security
A Beginner Used AI Agents to Breach 14 Companies
Vague prompts and off-the-shelf AI agents were enough for one novice to compromise 14 organizations, per a full working-directory analysis by OALABS.
AI
A Tighter Leash for AI Agents That Operate in Uncertain Territory
Researchers propose a verification framework that enforces security policies on AI agents even when the underlying detectors can fail.
AI
ScaffoldAgent Gives AI Research Reports a Smarter Skeleton
A new framework adjusts an AI report's outline in real time as it gathers evidence, reducing the structural drift that plagues long-form automated research.
AI
LLM Agent Tackles Protein Design Where Machine Learning Falls Short
Agent Rosetta pairs an LLM with physics-based software to match expert performance on protein design, including variants that trip up ML models.
Security
AI Agents Are Breaking a Core Web Security Rule
New research finds that AI-powered browsers routinely violate the same-origin policy, a boundary scripts have respected for decades.
AI
Gemini Spark Outperforms Rivals but Struggles to Justify Its Existence
Google's new AI agent beats rivals on speed and reliability, but the harder problem is explaining why it exists alongside Gemini.
AI
AI Agent Runs Up Ruinous API Bill Scanning DN42
A developer's hands-off scanning experiment on the hobbyist DN42 network turned into a lesson in why autonomous agents need spending limits.
Security
Deno Open-Sources a Firewall for AI Agents Touching Production
Claw Patrol intercepts agent traffic at the TCP layer, parsing raw Postgres and SSH before granting access to live infrastructure.
Security
73 Microsoft Packages Caught Running a Credential Stealer, Again
A self-replicating stealer hidden in 73 packages fires automatically when an AI agent opens them, the second such incident at Microsoft in weeks.
Startups
Intuned Turns Browser Automation Into Self-Healing Code
The YC-backed startup uses an AI agent to write and auto-repair browser scrapers, targeting the maintenance problem that makes most RPA projects brittle.
AI
Apple Approves Its First AI Agent for Business Messaging
Poke, which runs AI agents over plain text threads, becomes the first of its kind cleared for Apple's Messages for Business.
Dev Tools
OpenAI explains how Codex CLI runs its agent loop
A technical post breaks down how Codex CLI sequences model calls, tool use, and prompts through OpenAI's Responses API.