Microsoft releases Agent Lightning v1.0 for training agents inside their own harness

20 August 2026
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Microsoft releases Agent Lightning v1.0 for training agents inside their own harness

Researchers from Microsoft, together with colleagues from Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and the University of Edinburgh, released Agent Lightning v1.0, a framework for reinforcement learning on LLM agents that fits…

Claude Sonnet 5: A Strong Agentic Upgrade, but No Clear Opus Replacement

1 July 2026
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Claude Sonnet 5: A Strong Agentic Upgrade, but No Clear Opus Replacement

Anthropic has introduced Claude Sonnet 5, a new model in the Claude family that is also available to users on the free tier. It is designed for agentic tasks, programming,…

OpenAI Codex Beginner’s Guide: Setup, Workflows, and Pricing

18 May 2026
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OpenAI Codex Beginner’s Guide: Setup, Workflows, and Pricing

AI coding tools have changed dramatically over the past two years. Early assistants like GitHub Copilot mostly worked as advanced autocomplete systems — useful for speeding up repetitive coding, but…

ClawGUI: the first open-source end-to-end framework for GUI agents — from training to real device

15 April 2026

ClawGUI: the first open-source end-to-end framework for GUI agents — from training to real device

Researchers from Zhejiang University have published ClawGUI — a fully open-source framework for building GUI agents that control applications through their visual interface, just like a human would: taps, swipes,…

ClawBench: The Best AI Agent Completed Only 33% of Real Everyday Online Tasks

13 April 2026

ClawBench: The Best AI Agent Completed Only 33% of Real Everyday Online Tasks

ClawBench — a benchmark testing whether AI agents can complete real everyday online tasks: booking a flight, applying for a job, placing an order. Results showed that even the strongest…

Trinity-Large-Thinking 400B: an open model matching Claude Opus-4.6 on agentic benchmarks at 28x lower price

3 April 2026
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Trinity-Large-Thinking 400B: an open model matching Claude Opus-4.6 on agentic benchmarks at 28x lower price

Arcee AI has released Trinity-Large-Thinking — an open-weight reasoning model for complex multi-turn agentic tasks. On PinchBench — a comprehensive benchmark for AI agents — it ranks second among all…

OpenClaw: The Lobster That Took Over the World — How One Developer Built the Most Popular Open-Source AI Agent in History

18 March 2026
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OpenClaw: The Lobster That Took Over the World — How One Developer Built the Most Popular Open-Source AI Agent in History

OpenClaw is a free and open-source AI agent created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger in November 2025. An AI agent is a software wrapper around a language model that does…

OpenClaw-RL: A Framework That Updates an Agent’s Weights on the Fly, Learning from User and Environment Feedback

17 March 2026
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OpenClaw-RL: A Framework That Updates an Agent’s Weights on the Fly, Learning from User and Environment Feedback

Researchers from Princeton University have introduced OpenClaw-RL, a framework that allows an AI agent to improve in real time — without a separate data collection stage and without manual annotation.…

How SMBs are Deploying Custom AI Agents Without Enterprise Infrastructure

14 March 2026

How SMBs are Deploying Custom AI Agents Without Enterprise Infrastructure

Over the years, the story about artificial intelligence has been controlled by Big Tech and Fortune 500 companies. The premise was that in order to implement an actual custom AI…

MiroThinker v1.0: Open-Source AI Research Agent Learns to Make Up to 600 Tool Calls Per Task

20 November 2025
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MiroThinker v1.0: Open-Source AI Research Agent Learns to Make Up to 600 Tool Calls Per Task

The MiroMind team introduced MiroThinker v1.0 — an AI research agent capable of performing up to 600 tool calls per task with a 256K token context window. On four key…

Remote Labor Index: Top AI Agents Successfully Complete 2.5% of Freelance Projects

4 November 2025
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Remote Labor Index: Top AI Agents Successfully Complete 2.5% of Freelance Projects

A team of researchers from the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI published the Remote Labor Index (RLI) — the first benchmark that tests whether AI agents can perform…

Mistral Agents API: AI Agent Framework with Web Search, Code Generation, and Image Generation Capabilities

28 May 2025
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Mistral Agents API: AI Agent Framework with Web Search, Code Generation, and Image Generation Capabilities

French startup Mistral AI introduced Agents API — a framework for creating autonomous AI agents with built-in connectors, persistent memory, and orchestration capabilities. Developers can create unlimited agents and build…