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OpenAI upgrades Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and model-native harness Amazon Science releases SOP-Bench to test AI agents on real business procedures NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Reclaims Stranded Power to Fit 40% More GPUs in Same Facility Envelope Perplexity Blocks Time's AI-Only Markdown Ads as Deceptive Hugging Face Research Exposes Benchmark Optimization in Leading ASR Models DARPA Begins Live AI Dogfighting Tests With VENOM-Modified F-16s NVIDIA Draws a Security Line for AI Agents: Harness Guides, Runtime Decides NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Showing Agent Architecture Beats Model Scale Alone Google DeepMind Partners With EVE Online Studio to Push AI Agents Into Persistent Worlds NVIDIA Publishes Full-Stack Observability Framework for AI Factories

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OpenAI upgrades Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and model-native harness

21 Aug 2026

OpenAI released a major Agents SDK update adding native sandbox execution and a model-native harness for production agent workloads. The Python-first release in...

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Amazon Science releases SOP-Bench to test AI agents on real business procedures

21 Aug 2026

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NVIDIA Draws a Security Line for AI Agents: Harness Guides, Runtime Decides

21 Aug 2026

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Technology 21 Aug 2026

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Reclaims Stranded Power to Fit 40% More GPUs in Same Facility Envelope

NVIDIA launched DSX MaxLPS, a full-stack platform that dynamically reallocates stranded power across GPU racks to fit up to 40% more compute in the same facility envelope. The system combines real-time power steering, workload-aware profiles, and 45°C liquid cooling to boost performance per watt by 1.3–1.5x on Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

Perplexity Blocks Time's AI-Only Markdown Ads as Deceptive

Perplexity blocked Time's markdown ads served only to AI crawlers, calling the practice deceptive and warning publishers risk a trust-score downgrade. The clash tests whether agent-facing ad inventory is a legitimate revenue channel or cloaking by another name.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

Hugging Face Research Exposes Benchmark Optimization in Leading ASR Models

Hugging Face research shows top ASR models reproduce benchmark transcripts even when audio contradicts them. The study found models with the lowest reported error rates were most likely to regurgitate incorrect reference texts, overstating real-world performance.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

DARPA Begins Live AI Dogfighting Tests With VENOM-Modified F-16s

DARPA and the Air Force launched live AI dogfighting tests using VENOM-modified F-16s at Eglin AFB. The campaign moves autonomy development from a one-off testbed to standard fleet jets with real sensors.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Showing Agent Architecture Beats Model Scale Alone

NVIDIA's AVO agent architecture achieved a perfect 100% score on the ARC-AGI-3 public benchmark, completing all 183 levels across 25 environments. The result shows system-level design — not model scale alone — can unlock long-horizon autonomous reasoning that stumped every frontier model.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

Google DeepMind Partners With EVE Online Studio to Push AI Agents Into Persistent Worlds

Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, to develop AI agents that learn continuously in persistent game worlds. The collaboration targets continual learning and long-horizon planning capabilities that could transform NPCs and game development.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

NVIDIA Publishes Full-Stack Observability Framework for AI Factories

NVIDIA published a practical observability framework mapping telemetry tools to every layer of DGX and HGX AI factory infrastructure. The guide helps teams catch gray failures like InfiniBand bit-error drift before they waste multi-hour training runs.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

Meta rolls out Pocket vibe-coding app to U.S. users after Brazil test

Meta is rolling out Pocket, its AI-powered vibe-coding app for creating and sharing interactive mini-games, to all U.S. users after a quiet test in Brazil. The launch extends Meta's push to make generative AI creation tools mainstream across standalone mobile apps.

Technology 21 Aug 2026

NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard Routes AI Agent Workloads Across Models to Cut Cost and Latency

NVIDIA released NeMo Switchyard, an open-source library that routes AI agent steps across models to balance cost, latency, and accuracy. LangChain benchmarks show 74% cost savings with a 6-point accuracy tradeoff when routing between a 30B model and Claude Opus 4.8.