On the GitHub blog, three Java Champions describe how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems and speed up development. They stress that humans remain responsible for the results.
New York startup Asymptote Labs raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that logs AI agent activity, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions.
Security company Blackwall, which sits in front of millions of websites, is now valued at $2.2 billion after a round led by AVP. Its investor argues the company becomes essential as more web traffic comes from AI agents.
Homebase, which makes scheduling and payroll software for hourly teams, launched Homebase Assistant. The AI tool contacts staff to cover missed shifts, builds schedules, screens candidates and flags timecard errors; it is open to a limited number of businesses, with pricing undisclosed.
A Hugging Face post describes ALTK-Evolve, which uses learned memory to reach the top of the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without relying on a frontier model.
In August, MIT researchers showed that a society of AI agents placed in a shared world without instructions could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same agents working alone. A team working with Apex Fusion has now reproduced the result on consumer hardware rather than a hosted frontier model.