Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

We've moved past the era of "ChatGPT wrappers" (thank God), but the industry still treats autonomous agents like they're just chatbots with API access. They're not. When you give an AI system the ...

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive

I’ve been testing out Gemini’s new task automation on the Pixel 10 Pro and the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which for the first time lets Gemini take the wheel and use apps for you. Its ...
Microsoft

CTI-REALM: A new benchmark for end-to-end detection rule generation with AI agents

CTI-REALM is Microsoft’s open-source benchmark that evaluates AI agents on real-world detection engineering. It measures whether an agent can take cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and produce validated ...
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher

An exclusive conversation with OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, about his firm's new grand challenge and the future of AI.
InfoQ

QCon London 2026: Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Silva, both Engineers at Netflix, presented “Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed the design and implementation ...
InfoQ

Google Open-Sources the Common Expression Language for Python

Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed, ...