AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

According to Guru Club, Google launched AlphaEvolve, an AI code optimization agent, to all Google Cloud customers on July 10. The tool is designed to optimize code across the platform.

According to multiple reports, Meta on Thursday, July 9 launched Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model, signaling entry into enterprise AI programming and agentic AI markets with a competitive API pricing strategy. Meta's stock surged 4.7% to $631.48, bolstered by the announcement and news that th

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit demonstrated a new attack technique called "Adversarial HalluSquatting" that exploits AI-generated hallucinations to compromise computers. The technique tricks AI agents into trusting fake software repositories and tools containing

OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a new tool designed to handle extended work tasks for hours without interruption. The release addresses limitations in the company's previous Agent Mode feature in the Atlas web browser, which stopped automated tasks after a few minutes. OpenAI states the tool can

According to Ars Technica, OpenAI released ChatGPT Work today, a tool designed to handle complex tasks for hours and automate multi-step workflows. The new tool addresses limitations in the company's previous Agent Mode, which typically stopped after a few minutes. ChatGPT Work integrates with work

Perplexity released a research preview on July 9, 2026 of a post-trained version of Z.AI's GLM 5.2 model, built to operate inside its Computer agent harness and available now in production. The system costs one-third the price of Claude Opus 4.8 across benchmarks. The company fine-tuned the

According to Perplexity's announcement on July 9, the company released a post-trained version of GLM 5.2, a 744-billion-parameter Chinese open-source model, designed to operate inside its Computer agent harness. The fine-tuned model delivers near-frontier performance at approximately one-third the c

The Ethereum Foundation Protocol Security team deployed AI agents to test critical network infrastructure, the team disclosed in a blog post Thursday. The agents discovered multiple vulnerabilities including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p's gossipsub, disclosed as CVE-2026-34219 on Github. The

According to Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team, on Thursday, AI agents were deployed to test software that Ethereum relies on and identified a remote-triggerable panic vulnerability in libp2p gossipsub, a peer-to-peer layer used by Ethereum consensus clients. The vulnerability was

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work agent on Thursday, a new artificial intelligence tool designed to handle complex tasks continuously over multiple hours. The agent assists users in creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web applications, powered by OpenAI's latest GPT-5.6 model. The

According to Beating, Ryan Lopopolo, an OpenAI engineer and author of the Harness engineering methodology, has recently joined Google Cloud as Chief Engineer for Agentic Google Cloud Platform. Lopopolo's Harness engineering framework emphasizes providing AI agents with proper context, tools,

t54 in partnership with Virtuals Protocol launched the XRPL AI Hub, a unified platform consolidating AI agents, developer tools, payment services, and blockchain-based applications on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The hub aims to simplify access to XRPL's expanding AI ecosystem and foster collaboration

XRP Ledger introduced the XRPL AI Hub today, a unified platform co-developed by t54 in partnership with Virtuals Protocol. The hub consolidates AI agents, developer tools, payment infrastructure, and blockchain applications in a single ecosystem, leveraging XRPL's low transaction costs and high

According to Google Cloud Taiwan's Technical Manager Lin Shu-ping, as of today (July 9), 57% of Taiwan enterprises have deployed AI agents, placing the country in the forefront of the Asia-Pacific region. An IDC survey commissioned by Google Cloud also found that 67% of Taiwan organizations expect A

BNB Chain announced plans to build a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for AI agents, signaling an industry shift toward infrastructure designed for autonomous software rather than human users. Earlier this week, AEREDIUM joined the Lava Tokenization Sandbox alongside Lava Foundation and Bretagne

According to Business Insider, on July 9, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that software engineers at the company increasingly prefer building intelligent agents to writing traditional code. "Every software engineer of mine would rather build an agent than write Python code," Huang said in an

Animoca Brands introduced a live pilot of new AI-based commerce features created in partnership with Visa for its AI agent platform, Minds by Animoca Brands, on July 09, 2026. The initiative is designed to explore how AI agents can support digital commerce by helping users find relevant rewards,

According to Animoca Brands, the company and Visa on July 8 completed a live pilot of AI-powered agent commerce features on Minds by Animoca Brands, an AI agent platform. The pilot integrates Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC) technology, enabling AI agents to identify suitable Visa offers, assist

According to ChainCatcher, AEON, an AI Agent economic settlement protocol, has added support for OpenBCB, the unified real-time payment standard launched by Bolivia's Central Bank (BCB). The integration enables fast QR code settlement between crypto assets and the local currency Boliviano (BOB), pro

According to a recent Business Insider interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that the company's software engineers are experiencing a fundamental shift in their work—building AI agents has become a new core skill. "All of my software engineers now prefer to build AI agents rather than writing