Turns out, AI agents may not be great team players. In Anthropic’s new research, published on Thursday, the AI lab said that AI agents being given the same task but with incompatible goals often threw a wrench in each other’s work on purpose. In the test, each AI model was given a software engineering task
Investors are hunting for social media startups that can spark new connections and nurture existing ones. “Social media companies started based on connection,” Shawn Carolan, a partner at Menlo Ventures, said of the previous wave of giants like Facebook and Instagram. Carolan said these companies “evolved into media companies” and abandoned that connection. That leaves
The most powerful AI models keep going awry, according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as frontier AI models get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. They also highlight a growing challenge for the companies building them —the systems designed to test increasingly capable models can have weaknesses of their own.
Citrini Research, the market research firm that went viral for its futuristic AI doomsday scenario earlier this year, sees the rise of agentic threats boosting demand for cybersecurity. In a note published on Friday, Citrini shared its bullish thesis on the sector, noting that the rapid rise of AI capabilities means companies have a greater
There’s something almost too perfect about this, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old startup from Jersey City, New Jersey, that helps companies create AI agents, used its own AI agent to raise its own round. The system, SivaClaw, reportedly answered questions from more than 130 investors, drafted investment memos, and even tracked which slides sponsors left
Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if you can look at Meta as an example. Reuters reports that in an internal meeting on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of development of AI agents had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected. Earlier this