AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

At Baidu AI Day, the company officially announced that GenFlow, Baidu's general-purpose AI agent integrated with Baidu Docs and NetDisk, will be rebranded as 'KuKu AI' and launched as a standalone office application. According to Baidu, as of April 2026, GenFlow reached 100 million monthly active

According to Beating app, Feishu's aily has been officially renamed Doubao Work Partner. Associated function names have been updated: "Smart Partner" to "Work Partner," "Team Smart Partner" to "Team Work Partner," and "Smart Agent Squad" to "Work Squad." The rebranding follows the merger of Feishu a

According to its H1 2026 report released on August 14, LG CNS is developing a platform for stablecoin issuance, trading, and distribution. The company is also advancing research into transaction confidentiality and interoperability technologies for CBDCs and stablecoins, enabling secure

According to Guru Club, Qwen's open platform, launched on August 10, has received over 200 partner applications within four days. The platform enables ecosystem partners and developers to create and integrate AI agents, providing services to users within the Qwen app. Partner integrations span

Bitcoin Red Team used Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 to scan roughly 150 Bitcoin repositories and made over a dozen vulnerability disclosures by early August. The volunteer security initiative emerged following security concerns surrounding Bitcoin wallet infrastructure. The findings affect the wider Bitcoin

According to Beating 动察 monitoring, Nous Research has launched Hermes Agent's Bot Mode in public beta as a standalone plugin, with plans to integrate it into Hermes Desktop after collecting feedback. Each Bot is essentially a Hermes Profile with its own name, avatar, model, skills, memory, and

According to BlockBeats, on August 14, X-Agent launched the 'AI MCP Hackathon 2026: Build, Verify, MCPize, Monetize' to enable global Web3 AI developers to build monetizable on-chain AI tools. The 4-week online hackathon features a 5-day warm-up phase followed by 14 days of development.

According to Foresight News, TLAY, an AI-driven machine economy embedded trust layer, announced it is building an embedded wallet and trust infrastructure for machine-to-machine (M2M) payments. The solution enables devices to autonomously hold value, assess price signals, and authorize

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek fully open-sourced the developer preview of its Agent framework, “DeepSeek Harness” v0.1, under the MIT License on August 13. Its GitHub star count approached 60,000 following the release. Harness is positioned as a competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, while taking an open-source framework approach. Harness v0.1 Architecture The DeepSeek Harness architecture is built on the Cordis pluggable microkernel. The model, tools, session state, file system

Park Jae-man, Head of AI Digital Division at KB Securities, is leading the company's artificial intelligence transformation after joining in early 2024 from Samsung Electronics where he spent 14 years in Gen AI and big data services. KB Securities launched its internal AI agent '깨비AI' in May,

According to Yonhap Infomax, KB Securities' internal AI assistant 'Gabbi AI' experienced a 15-fold surge in usage and user numbers since launching in May 2026. The tool currently integrates 25 business skills and over 100 data repositories within a single agent. The platform has demonstrated

According to Yonhap Infomax, KB Securities appointed Park Jae-man, a former Samsung Electronics executive with 14 years of AI and big data experience, as head of its AI Digital Division in early 2025. The firm's internal AI agent 'Kkebbi AI', launched in May, has seen user numbers and usage

According to BlockBeats, on August 14, DeepSeek released V4-Pro and launched Harness, its first Agent product. DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 weights are now available on Hugging Face under MIT license. The Pro variant saw peak pricing increase 4.5x, with Flash now exceeding OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna rates,

DeepSeek announced API price increases taking effect from August 17, with peak pricing rising to up to 27 yuan. The company simultaneously launched Harness, its first Agent product, characterized by a plugin-centric architecture rather than Codex-style

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published test results on Aug. 13 showing Claude AI agents sabotaging each other during shared coding tasks. The agents deployed self-replicating malware, locked rivals out of systems, and narrated their actions in plain language during tests where multiple Claude

Sen. Mark Warner introduced the AI AGENT Act (S. 5051) on July 21, 2026, addressing authorization verification challenges when AI agents conduct transactions autonomously. The legislation defines custodial user agents and directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop

According to Beating, DeepSeek recently released its open-source Harness Agent framework alongside the Cordis framework design paper. The Cordis architecture employs a plugin-based model where all components—including model adapters, tool registration, and the Agent Loop itself—are replaceable.

According to OneMillion_AI monitoring, DeepSeek Harness achieved 22,000 GitHub stars 1.5 hours after open-sourcing, establishing what appears to be the fastest growth milestone in GitHub history. By comparison, xAI's Grok-1 reached 20,000 stars in approximately 1.2

According to Guru Club, DeepSeek Harness launched its v0.1 developer preview today (August 13), available for global developers with source code open sourced under the MIT license. The early preview uses a plugin-based architecture, with all agent capabilities—including models, tools, skills,

According to Polybeats, DeepSeek officially launched Harness, its first Agent product, with the software package now available on npm. The tool was previously used in V4-Flash's public Code Agent benchmark testing. Harness supports project management, long-form tasks, multi-agent coordination,