Amjad Masad announced that Replit has raised $400 million in a Series D, and also unveiled a powerful new agent.

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

Amazon Web Services has introduced Strands Labs, a new GitHub organization created to host experimental projects related to agent-based AI development.

Meta is acquiring Moltbook, the AI-agent social network, as it ramps up 2026 spending on Llama, smart glasses, and AI infrastructure.