AI agent news archive

13 stories so far. Each one has its own page with a summary, related tools and the source link. For today's stories, see Agent news.

By month

Big US banks restrict third-party AI agents from customer accounts (Oct 17, 2026, X)
OpenAI's always-on dots agents take overnight on-call pages for engineers (Oct 17, 2026, X)
NVIDIA App update turns on AI agent control by default, prompting privacy warnings (Oct 16, 2026, X)
OpenUI 1.0 lets AI agents answer with interactive maps, charts and forms (Oct 16, 2026, X)
Self Labs ships Agent Vault so agents can pay and log in without real credentials (Oct 16, 2026, X)
Manus makes a US$500M comeback push in China's agent market (Oct 15, 2026, digitimes)
Ledger adds Agent Intent: AI agents propose, your hardware wallet approves (Oct 15, 2026, X)
Figma Specs feeds design decisions to coding agents over MCP (open beta) (Oct 15, 2026, X)
Rivian is bringing AI agents into its cars (Oct 15, 2026, TechCrunch)
GSA hosts a government hackathon on MCP servers and AI agents (Oct 15, 2026, GSA (.gov))