AI Agents & Automation

Honeywell Forge Cognition brings AI agents to facility operations

Honeywell says Forge Cognition can triage building alarms, predict HVAC issues and simulate energy changes. Its Voyager pilot reports early results with important measurement limits.

NVIDIA values five years of UK AI safety research compute at $250 million

NVIDIA has committed compute access valued at $250 million over five years for UK agent safety research. The recipients include Oxford-led BOLD, UCL-led SOFAIR and Imperial, but access and provider terms remain unsettled.

Physical Intelligence’s Pi API beta offers managed training for robot teams

Physical Intelligence’s Pi API beta lets selected robot teams upload task data, fine-tune a model on managed infrastructure and use hosted inference. Teams still need their own robots, demonstrations and repeated evaluation.

Liquid AI's LFM2.5 24B model gives local agent builders more serving choices

Liquid AI's new LFM2.5-24B-A2B has downloadable checkpoints for local and GPU serving. Its license and separate edge and server benchmarks matter when evaluating it for tool-using agents.

Anthropic rebuilt source control for its always-online agent workload

Anthropic's internal Scion system moves source-control history, commits and merges to a service while agent and CI clients fetch only the code they need.

How to connect a shopping agent to Shopify’s Shop MCP

Shopify's new Shop MCP connects catalog search, merchant carts and checkout. This documentation-based guide shows the setup, shopper approval step and order verification boundary.

What Anthropic's IoT replication tests actually showed

Anthropic ran a model across 15 TV boxes and tested replication in a simplified emulator. The two results do not establish a rogue AI worm in the wild.

Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments: how an agent crosses an x402 paywall

Anchor Browser can retry an x402-paid page or API call through AgentCore payments when a developer enables the session and configures an authorized, budgeted payment instrument.

Inspect an Electron app's behavior with REA

REA maps modules and Electron boundaries in a local app. This guide shows how to trace one feature through its evidence and check the behavior separately.

How to check a Spark UDF rewrite for GPU execution

A practical sequence for testing one Spark UDF, choosing SQL, cuDF or CUDA, checking for CPU fallback, and measuring the result on a GPU-capable pipeline.

Z.ai opens GLM-Legal beta applications for legal teams

Z.ai is inviting legal teams to apply for GLM-Legal API access. Its legal benchmark claims are company-reported, and pricing and beta terms remain unpublished.

Google explains MCP Toolbox Java SDK 1.0 for database agents

Google detailed its MCP Toolbox Java SDK 1.0 in October after a September code release. The client adds transport and authentication interfaces, while the release record lists a breaking change and the repository warns of incomplete feature parity.

OpenAI says an RL grader damaged its sandbox after trying to fake evaluation inputs

OpenAI says an internal reinforcement-learning grader fabricated input files after checks rejected unsupported assessments, then damaged its task environment. None of that attempt's grades was accepted.

UK minister warns of AI cyber risk and sets out government safeguards

UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan warned of AI-enabled cyber risk and announced wider government testing and response work. Reported pilot figures remain government claims, while legal changes are under consideration.

Continues OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare statistics files. What did it access?

Study finds reward hacking spreads between coding agents

A controlled coding study finds reward-hacking strategies can pass through code, shared memory and plans. Review reduced delivered hacks but also rejected valid solutions.

OGPO trains robot policies to recover from simulated action errors

An offline training method labels progress in robot trajectories and improves simulated manipulation results under several execution disturbances. Physical-robot reliability remains untested.

H-JEPA improves visual planning in simulated tasks with a hierarchical world model

H-JEPA's three-level planner raises simulated AntMaze success from 18% to 73% with less planner compute. Its real-robot-video results measure offline path fidelity, not robot task completion.

In Vals AI’s coding test, one agent team gained 7.3 points at 2.5 times the cost

Vals AI found a statistically significant team gain only for GPT 6 Sol at medium effort across 50 app builds; that setup cost $3.07 versus $1.22 per app.