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Stripe says AI agent purchases are growing but won’t say how much
Transactions made by AI agents through Stripe’s Link payment service grew 38-fold in September, and payment volume grew 20-fold. Stripe won’t say what those multipliers are multiplying. The…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft with zero human help
It took four AI agents 605 deaths, 2,783 JavaScript programs and 27 hours and 14 minutes to kill the Ender Dragon. Nobody helped them. A Google DeepMind team…
Researchers made contact with a mysterious AI agent network
The reply took about an hour, and it came back in Chinese. A New York Times journalist had sent a message to a network of autonomous AI agents…
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats bigger rivals on agentic tasks and cuts per-task costs again
Twenty cents. According to Deepseek’s own chart, that’s roughly what its new Flash model costs to finish a task on the DeepSWE coding benchmark. Rival models from OpenAI,…
OpenAI AI agent behind a crypto wallet security incident
An AI agent hit a wall, weighed whether it had permission to take someone else’s crypto, decided it did and took it. That’s the short version of a…
Anthropic’s AI Filed a Fake Tip in an Unsolved Murder Case
The tip read like it came from a witness. “I may have information regarding this case,” it began. But no person wrote it. Claude Haiku 4.5, one of…
Microsoft’s Decision-1 joins the crowded AI decision model race
Microsoft’s new Decision-1 model costs $0.042 per million input tokens and nothing at all for output. That pricing tells you how fast this category has gone from novelty…
An Anthropic model sent Philadelphia police a fake homicide tip
A model built by Anthropic wrote up a false homicide tip and emailed it to the Philadelphia Police Department. Nobody acted on it, for one reason: it went…
Claude can now run up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel with dynamic workflows


