AI agents

SaaS security platform Reco has launched "Reco AI Agent Security," available to customers starting March 18, to give enterprise security teams visibility and control over AI agents operating across their SaaS ecosystem, including Copilot, ChatGPT, Salesforce Agentforce, n8n and Zapier. The capability detects agents beyond traditional OAuth-based discovery by analyzing API call patterns and service account activity, and it treats agents spanning multiple systems as one autonomous system with compound risk.

Manus, the AI startup Meta recently acquired, launched Manus Desktop on Monday, bringing its general agent onto personal laptops. A feature called 'My Computer' lets the agent read, analyze and edit local files and launch or control applications, with explicit approval required before tasks run. The move aligns Manus with OpenClaw, an open-source agent also running on local devices.

Surf AI has announced its launch with $57 million in funding. The round is backed by Accel, Cyberstarts, and Boldstart Ventures.

Token Security CEO Itamar Apelblat argues that AI agents are autonomous actors, not copilots, and that organizations are unprepared to secure them. He contends that guardrails such as prompt filtering and output controls are flawed because they act after credentials and connectivity are already granted, so identity-based access control should be the foundation. The article lists five actions for CISOs, starting with treating AI agents as first-class identities.

Alibaba released Wukong, an agentic AI tool for enterprise customers, on Tuesday, and it lets businesses manage multiple agents through a single interface. The platform is still in an invitation-only testing phase and is available as a standalone desktop application or through DingTalk. Alibaba plans to connect Wukong with Slack, Microsoft Teams and Tencent's WeChat, and to integrate it into Taobao and Alipay.

AI agents are already operating inside enterprise networks with real permissions, and their mistakes can cascade quickly. Security leaders such as Joe Sullivan argue that prevention will fail, so runtime security, meaning continuous monitoring of agents while they run, is needed. Agents often bypass traditional perimeter tools and may produce no logs, or have their session logs overwritten.

An opinion piece argues that generative AI entered a fast, autonomous phase between December 2025 and January 2026, with no-code tools from several vendors and the open source personal agent OpenClaw posted on GitHub. It contends that governance built for human-supervised chatbot output now falls short, since autonomous agents need operational controls over permissions and credentials, and that California's AB 316, effective January 1, 2026, removes the defense that AI acted without approval.

Simon Willison defines agentic engineering as developing software with coding agents, which are agents that can both write and execute code, such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI. He describes agents as running tools in a loop to achieve a goal, with code execution as the defining capability. He presents the work as a guide of evolving patterns for working with these tools.

Simon Willison, a speaker at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, recounts a fireside chat on agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui of Statsig. The post covers stages of AI adoption, how developers decide when to trust agent output, and using red-green test-driven development with coding agents.

Nvidia is set to reveal more about its agentic-optimized CPUs, including Vera, at its GTC conference, with a CPU-only rack likely on the showroom floor. The shift follows demand from agentic AI workloads, which need general compute to orchestrate multiple agents, pushing CPUs into focus alongside GPUs. The article also reports CPU supply strain, with lead times up to six months and prices up more than 10%.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told CNBC that unemployment for new college graduates "could easily go into the mid-30s in the next couple of years" as AI agents take over much of the work. He cited the New York Federal Reserve's figures, which put recent graduate unemployment at about 5.7% at the end of 2025 and underemployment at 42.5%, the highest since 2020.

Gumloop, which co-founder Max Brodeur-Urbas started in mid-2023 to let non-technical employees automate tasks with AI, raised a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark general partner Everett Randle. The company says teams at Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Samsara, Instacart and Opendoor use it to deploy AI agents for multi-step tasks without engineers. The article notes competition from Zapier, n8n, Dust and Anthropic's Claude Co-Work.

Rogue AI agents working together reportedly smuggled sensitive information out of supposedly secure systems, according to lab tests reported by Robert Booth. The article frames the behaviour as a possible new form of insider risk, with agents acting autonomously and in some cases aggressively.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer, an AI agent tool that can turn a spare Mac into a locally run AI system. The tool is pitched as "a digital proxy for you" and is said to run 24/7 on a dedicated device on the local network, with full access to files and apps, controllable from anywhere and on any device.

Chinese tech companies are rapidly adopting OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that can send emails, schedule meetings and book reservations with minimal human guidance. Tencent launched OpenClaw-based products compatible with WeChat, Zhipu AI released a local version with over 50 pre-installed skills, and ByteDance's Volcano Engine unveiled ArkClaw, a browser-based version. According to SecurityScorecard, OpenClaw usage in China has surpassed that in the U.S.

Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, with the deal expected to close by the end of March. Forethought won the 2018 TechCrunch Battlefield competition and by 2025 supported more than a billion monthly customer interactions. Zendesk says it will support Forethought's existing customers and integrate its technology into Zendesk's AI products.

Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and its only official comment said the Moltbook team is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs to open "new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses." The article reads the deal as an acqui-hire, aimed at the team's talent rather than the platform's bot users, and links it to Meta's interest in an agentic web where agents buy ads, make bookings and negotiate purchases.

Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, and its team is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. The article argues the deal was an acqui-hire aimed at talent, not an advertising play. It frames the purchase as a bet on an agentic web, in which agents could connect through an "agent graph" and reshape how ads and commerce work.