Microsoft announced controls in Microsoft 365 E7 and Project Perception that score each AI agent's risk and can make it read-only, require human approval, or shut it down. It now detects 60 agent types, up from 25. E7 costs $99 per user per month.
Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires as agent hours grew. What the report found, what other labor data shows for young workers, what hiring managers now screen for, and practical steps for anyone trying to land a first job in AI.
The Verge reports Democrats could bring new scrutiny to AI companies if they win a chamber. What committee control allows under House and Senate rules, which lawmakers are named, and why Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are in focus.
DeepSeek priced Search and Fetch at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, put them on the same API key as its models, and made server-side Search and Fetch calls through Claude Code and Codex free for DeepSeek API users until November 1. That is how agent search becomes a commodity.
ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks scores an uploaded video with original music and timed sound effects. Available in ElevenCreative, ElevenMusic, and the Studio API with add_sfx, separate_tracks, and use_audio_as_reference. Limits: 10 videos, 200 MB, 10 minutes.
A Chinese-speaking hacker used Cairn AI agents to try more than 1,200 websites and break into the sites of 100+ companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, Reuters reported. NorForge's researcher estimates the tokens cost about $5,000, or roughly $50 per successful hack.
Google's Gemini agent works inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets, runs tasks for hours or days, and can join your team as a coworker agent with its own email. It is in private preview. Google says it comes at no extra charge with Gemini Enterprise; Workspace plans list from $7 to $35 per user per month.
Santander's AI Lab says smaller, specialized models cut serving costs from around €5 to about €0.03 per interaction in selected experiments. Here is what it built with NVIDIA, what the three-year deal covers, and what the numbers do not show.
doubleAI's Maxwell sits inside running Python and PyTorch code, swaps in faster machine code, and attaches a formal proof that it behaves the same. Here are its published speedups, how it compares with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, the $220M company behind it, and what is still unknown.
EdenLive lets a game engine or coding agent run the world while a 5B or 14B open model repaints its rough proxy video in real time. VAST reports 29.8 FPS at 1280 x 704 on one H100 and about 24.7 FPS on an RTX 5090. Here is how it works, what it needs, and what the license allows.
