Agents

AIMastra says it now lets developers add lifecycle and transform hooks to its observational memory system. Lifecycle hooks log cycle starts and ends with token usage, while transform hooks can modify observations and reflections before they are stored. The release also includes skillResultRedactor(), which replaces skill file contents in tool results with a placeholder so the agent still remembers the skill.

AIManus is launching Manus Flex, a module that lets users power Manus agents with their own API key from a supported inference provider. Model inference is billed directly by that provider, while other services used in Manus tasks still consume Manus credits. OpenRouter, Fireworks, and Modal are announced as initial inference partners for the Flex Inference Partner Program.

AIOpenAI added computer use to the Agents API, letting agents complete tasks in an OpenAI-hosted browser. Website access approvals and sign-in are handled by the developer's application.

Why it matters: The changelog specifies that browsing runs in an OpenAI-hosted browser while the developer's application handles approvals and sign-in, which clarifies responsibility for integrations.

AIOpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol) for complex coding and professional work, at a lower cost than GPT-6 Astra. For prompts up to 272K input tokens, standard pricing is $2 per 1M input tokens, $0.10 cached input, $2.50 cache write, and $10 output. The model also supports Multi-agent in beta, letting it delegate work to subagents in a Responses API request.

Why it matters: The changelog gives per-token pricing and a multi-agent beta, showing how the model compares in cost with GPT-6 Astra for developers planning coding workloads.

AICharlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, develops mobile manipulators with arms to physically assist older adults and people with disabilities in homes and workplaces. His work began with humanoid robots at MIT and led to assistive robotics research, including a collaboration with Henry Evans through the Robots for Humanity effort. The profile is part of IEEE Spectrum's "A Day in the Life of a Roboticist" series.

AIFlorida's attorney general has sought an injunction against OpenAI, and the author agrees that OpenAI cannot properly regulate its own technology. The author argues every state and country should follow Florida's lead and calls for an injunction now to avoid an AI-induced infrastructure disaster.

AISpaceXAI says its Team Bots, which prep account teams, coordinate engineering work, answer data questions, triage customer feedback, and run hiring loops, are now in public beta for Teams and Enterprise customers. The post links to a full announcement at

AIAndrew Ng says OpenWorker, his open-source agent harness for cybersecurity workflows, will run each agent's commands inside a sandbox built on Nvidia OpenShell. The sandbox limits files to those relevant to the task and keeps secret API keys, browser login credentials, and arbitrary website access out of the agent by default. Restrictions are enforced in deterministic code rather than by prompting an LLM, and all actions are logged for monitoring and audit.

AIPerplexity Developers released a cookbook recipe that combines Profiles, Skills, and managed connectors to build an incident responder. The recipe shows how the agent reads Datadog telemetry, diffs code in Sandbox, and posts an update to Slack.

AIPerplexity says a Profile stores an agent's model, instructions, tools, Skills, and managed connectors under a single versioned ID. Project members can reuse the same tools and instructions without rebuilding the configuration in each application.

AIGoogle Labs has expanded Project CC, its experimental AI productivity assistant, into a group agent designed to streamline family household logistics. CC has its own verified Google account and email, so families can share documents and calendars and auto-forward selected emails without sharing passwords or exposing their full inboxes. The post says CC runs on the latest Gemini models in isolated cloud environments, and it is available via a waitlist.

AIMistral CEO Arthur Mensch argues that only an open ecosystem can guarantee AI safety. The post responds to NVIDIA's announcement of the Open Agent Safety Platform, which brings together OpenShell and Sentry with over 100 industry partners.

AISimon Willison has published detailed notes and an annotated transcript accompanying his keynote at the WeAreDevs World Congress North America in San Jose. The write-up gives his rundown of everything that has happened with LLMs and agents in 2026 so far.

AIGoogle Gemma announces a competition with two tracks: an Autonomous SWE Track focused on open-source model fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and repository navigation, and a Research Paper Track for unpublished work advancing agentic software engineering. The post says top research papers will be featured at NeurIPS.

AIAn OpenAI developer experience team member argues voice agents need not always speak back, outlining speech-to-speech, speech-to-action, and event-to-speech as emerging design modes. He cites form filling, creative tools, and computer use as examples of speech-to-action, which he calls among the most underexplored areas. He says event-to-speech is still very exploratory, with hands-free recipe guidance and proactive alerts as examples.

AIGoogle says Gemini 3.8 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse model, improves on 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agentic tasks, and multistep reasoning by running extra reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively. The post highlights four community builds, including a model rocket simulation, an animated ink-painting effect, a 3D dinosaur skeleton, and an interactive automatic transmission simulation. Developers can try the model through Google Antigravity and Google AI Studio.

AIGoogle's Credentials API for Gemini Managed Agents injects secrets on the wire only for trusted domains, so sandboxed code cannot read raw tokens. It supports environment variables, CLIs, and MCP servers. Passing API keys as plain environment variables lets any sandboxed dependency read and potentially leak them.

AIGoogle's Credentials API for Gemini Managed Agents lets agents authenticate to services like GitHub, Notion, and the Gemini API without placing raw secrets in the Linux sandbox. Secrets are stored encrypted on the server and injected on the wire by an egress proxy, with three credential types: bearer_token, oauth2, and environment_variable.

AISierra has turned its Ghostwriter tool into an always-on teammate in Slack and Teams that proactively suggests ideas, flags problems, and proposes experiments. Ghostwriter reviews recent customer calls, recommends which changes to try first, runs experiments, and reports when results are statistically significant. Sierra said it will begin rolling the feature out more broadly next week.

AIHiggsfield promotes its MCP integration for motion design in After Effects, paired with Claude Opus 5.5. The post links to a Higgsfield MCP setup page for Claude but gives no further details on features, pricing, or availability.

AITogether AI is a launch partner for NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, which brings together OpenShell and Sentry with over 100 industry partners. Together AI says it has built platform capabilities for secure agent development and deployment and will keep investing in this area, including its work with NVIDIA on OpenShell.

AIMeta is launching Meta Enterprise Platform to bring its full technology stack to businesses and developers. The initial offering includes the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code, which the company says will help businesses grow.

AIImport AI 474 is a research newsletter by Jack Clark that surveys four developments and one fiction piece. It covers Michael Levin's paper proposing minds as patterns that ingress into bodies, Stanford researchers' call for a universal post-training recipe for robotics, Google's plan to send TPUs to space with Planet, and Zhipu's use of GLM-5.3 to speed up its own inference infrastructure.