AI Agent News
Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
Latest industry news
Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
Key events timeline
OpenClaw erupts on GitHub
OpenClaw hits global GitHub Top 10 in 10 days, outpacing the Linux kernel star growth
Meta acquires Manus for $2B
Meta acquires Manus AI for $2B, locking in the general-purpose Agent race
DeepSeek-V3 open-sourced
The value king, at just 5% of GPT-4 cost
Manus goes viral overnight
The world's first general-purpose AI Agent draws unprecedented attention
OpenAI Deep Research
OpenAI ships a deep-research Agent that generates professional reports in one click
MCP Servers pass 500
The MCP ecosystem erupts — 500+ servers built in 3 months
DeepSeek-R1 stuns the world
Open-source reasoning model at just 3% of OpenAI cost, reshaping the global AI landscape
MCP protocol born
Anthropic releases the Model Context Protocol, the de facto standard for Agent interfaces
Claude Computer Use
Anthropic lets AI directly control the computer screen for the first time, opening a new paradigm
Replit Agent full-stack automation
Natural language to a shipped product, aimed at non-engineers
Cursor ARR passes $100M
The fastest-growing SaaS ever, the new king of AI coding tools
Claude 3.5 tops SWE-bench
The strongest coding AI, bug-fixing at a junior engineer level
Devin launches
The world's first autonomous AI software engineer, able to complete full coding tasks on its own
Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: One Year Later—$2.87B Impact and Industry Lessons
One year after the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware attack on Change Healthcare disrupted prescription processing across US healthcare, UnitedHealth Group has revealed the total cost reached $2.87 billion. The attack affected 190 million Americans—the largest healthcare data breach in US history. Key lessons: the attackers entered via a Citrix account without MFA, highlighting identity security gaps in critical infrastructure. Congress has proposed mandatory cybersecurity minimums for healthcare organizations handling claims data.
Salt Typhoon Telecom Espionage: How China Hacked AT&T, Verizon & Lumen Technologies
The full scope of the Salt Typhoon (Chinese state-sponsored) telecom espionage campaign has been revealed, affecting at least 9 major US telecommunications carriers including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies. Attackers maintained persistent access for over 18 months, intercepting lawful wiretap systems and metadata for senior US government officials and political figures. The CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) lawful intercept systems became a vulnerability. Security experts are calling for end-to-end encryption of all communications and an overhaul of wiretapping frameworks.
Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited by Nation-State Actors: CISA Emergency Directive Issued
CISA issued an emergency directive after Chinese-linked threat actors exploited critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure VPN appliances. The vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-0282 (CVSS 9.0) and CVE-2025-0283—were used to deploy SPAWN malware family for espionage. Over 1,700 government and critical infrastructure organizations were affected before patches were available. The incident reinforces the need to migrate from legacy VPN to Zero Trust Network Access architectures.