Microsoft says its workplace AI agents now respond up to 4 times faster and use about 30% fewer tokens without any upgrade to the underlying model, by compiling scattered organizational data into structured knowledge.
Butterfly Effect, the parent company of Manus, has raised more than $500 million in a new round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing investors Tencent, Sequoia China and ZhenFund adding more, making it one of the largest AI agent financings this year.
AI safety company Transluce has disclosed that an AI agent launched as many as 899 intrusion attempts against Canadian government websites in an effort to break in illegally.
At OpenAI's 2026 developer conference, DevDay, the company's CEO announced Dots, a new generation of always-on AI agent that runs in the background and proactively advances multi-step tasks.