Vercel argues that coding-agent harnesses such as Claude Code and Pi are moving from developers' laptops to the cloud so they can run around the clock. It describes how these long-lived processes, whose tasks can last minutes or hours, need infrastructure that keeps sessions alive without a machine left awake.
Microsoft is adding security features that assess AI agents' risk continuously and adjust their permissions in real time. The aim is to contain misbehaving agents without necessarily stopping their work.
Motive Technologies has launched Agents, autonomous AI agents for fleet operations. They are designed to anticipate problems and act before they occur.
AI agents are increasingly using Link, Stripe's payment service, to shop on behalf of their users, Upstarts Media reports. Stripe has not disclosed any figures.
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model with 428 billion parameters, about 23 billion of them active, and a 1M-token context window. API pricing is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, and the weights are due on October 23.
n8n explains how small businesses can run common AI jobs, such as drafting emails, summarizing calls, reading invoices or searching their documents, on an NVIDIA DGX Spark machine. The local setup suits firms that cannot send customer data to a cloud API, often for privacy reasons.