AI agents
3 stories, newest first.
- Google's new agent sandbox assumes the agent will be hijacked. It makes sure there's nothing inside to steal.
Google Cloud introduced Agent Compute Engine on October 22. Every agent gets its own microVM, and no password, token or API key ever sits inside it. There's no price and no preview date yet.
- A startup's AI model got three rival versions in 16 days. Two of them are free.
TypeSafe launched Jev, a model that picks answers instead of writing them, on September 15. By October 1, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Amazon had each shipped their own take, and the benchmark fight is mostly vendors grading themselves.
- OpenAI's Dots never clock out. The company's own page says they can still make mistakes.
OpenAI launched always-on agents called Dots at DevDay on September 29, three weeks after Meta's Muse. The fine print reads like a reply to the complaints Muse has drawn since.