AI agents
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AI agents are autonomous software systems that perceive environments and take actions toward goals, evaluated by benchmarks like ClawArena and GeoBrowse across tasks including geolocation, industrial defect detection, and evolving information environments.
China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe
China vetoes Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to block talent and technology drain to Silicon Valley, escalating regulatory control over cross-border AI capabilities amid U.S.-China tech competition.
Claude, OpenClaw and the new reality: AI agents are here — and so is the chaos
Claude and OpenClaw are accelerating AI agent adoption among developers, but operational complexity at scale is emerging as the key friction point between capability and reliable deployment.
Making Turborepo 96% faster with agents, sandboxes, and humans
Eight AI agents cut Turborepo's build time by 96% through autonomous Rust optimization, reducing build overhead by 11x in a single week.
Join the new AI Agents Vibe Coding Course from Google and Kaggle
Google and Kaggle launch a free five-day AI Agents course (June 15-19) teaching "vibe coding"—building production systems via natural language interfaces instead of traditional code.
Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results
AI agents can now autonomously reproduce social science research by reading papers and writing working replication code, advancing automated research validation.